Example sentences of "[noun sg] become [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ghost became known as the Bad Lord , it being a noxious POLTERGEIST who irritates the family 's descendants more as time goes by — roaring in the cellars , splintering furniture and frightening maidservants . |
| 2 | The area north of Bedford House , which itself was just north of the Green , consisted of orchard and market garden land , so Mr. Carr 's idea led to the area of Bedford Park becoming known as the first Garden Suburb , with three principal architects designing the buildings , Norman Shaw , E.W. Godwin and E.T . |
| 3 | Eventually , they talked themselves out ; or at least the talk became overlaid by the preparations for the Christmas feast , only two weeks away , and those matters of business that had been laid aside for the Earl 's attention : the visits he had to make , and the people he had to see . |
| 4 | This anomaly became known as the West Lothian question as it was continuously raised by Tam Dalyell , the Labour Member for West Lothian and a firm opponent of devolution . |
| 5 | When the power of the higher civil service declined after 1942 and the state administration became absorbed into the party structure , the running of the economy was handed over to the most powerful monopolists . |
| 6 | Their association became known as the Royal Mines Copper ( as distinct from the old Company or Society of Mines Royal ) . |
| 7 | The trophy became known as the Gordon Bennett Cup , although he preferred to call it the Coupe Internationale . |
| 8 | Established as the West Midlands Training College in 1963 , the institution became known as the West Midlands College of Higher Education with the establishment of a range of diversified degree courses . |
| 9 | This result became known by the maxim : " A black hole has no hair . " |
| 10 | In the vision of the military critic writing ex post , the uncertain temper of the men of Britain 's Eighth Army after years of consistent defeat becomes obliterated behind the imposing shapes of tactical and material considerations . |
| 11 | In this model it is proposed that thinning of the lithosphere and its partial replacement by hot asthenosphere might allow convective upwelling to become established below the zone of extension . |
| 12 | Firstly , companies became larger and larger as wealth became concentrated in the hands of a small number of firms . |
| 13 | However Mr Earnshaw insisted , and little by little the boy became accepted by the family . |
| 14 | In June 1984 , a scant four weeks after the jumbo jet statistic became known in the world 's aviation lobbies , the president made a particularly memorable speech . |
| 15 | The hospice issue became entangled in the wider question of Jewish settlement in late April when Shamir was accused of taking advantage of the political stalemate by authorizing new settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip . |
| 16 | The cult of the martyr became detached from the general cult of the community 's dead members . |
| 17 | But a dark undercurrent of hostility to sexuality and marriage became interwoven with the more benign attitudes towards the body and sexuality current as late as the second century . |
| 18 | FIREMEN and police turned up at a house in Bracknell , Herts , with sirens blaring after Nibbles the hamster became trapped under the bath . |
| 19 | Shortly after , the mill became known as the VOB ( Vale of Bourton ) Flour Mills . |
| 20 | What year did the SDI type engine become fitted in the Range Rover and from what engine number ? e . |
| 21 | Without this , the rule of law becomes supplanted by the law of power . |
| 22 | There were even times when the massive outlet-pipe became blocked at the point where it burst from the hillside and through the tunnel wall . |
| 23 | From the time of Bede the Christian era became established for the dating of charters , but at first only in England . |
| 24 | Farming became geared to the demands of regional and national markets and harvest crises eventually became a thing of the past . |
| 25 | In the days before shops the local people would stock up with goods not available at the weekly market , while those wishing to sell were able to dispose of surplus goods and livestock since the guild monopoly of local trade was suspended for the duration of the fair , so all buying and selling became concentrated at the fairs . |
| 26 | The church tax became institutionalised during the Weimar Republic and was incorporated into the Basic Law of the new federal republic in 1949 . |
| 27 | In the history of the Vietnamese communist movement , as Duiker says , the Eighth Plenum is traditionally regarded as the moment when nationalism and a rural strategy of people 's war became identified as the two pillars of Vietnamese revolutionary doctrine . |
| 28 | The band became known as the Thirty Comrades , their heroic status reflecting the company gathered round the great king Alaungpaya , although they were 68 in number . |
| 29 | She shivered again and then again until somehow it became impossible to stop and her whole body became racked with the uncontrollable involuntary movements . |
| 30 | The malting business became concentrated in the south-eastern and eastern counties of England because that is where most of the country 's barley was grown , and ‘ maltings ’ , familiar by their long rows of windows and kilns with cowled tops , are most common in Essex , Suffolk and the eastern fringe of Hertfordshire . |