Example sentences of "[noun sg] become the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Labels were shifted about , the Higher School Certificate became the General Certificate of Education at Advanced Level , but it was many years before new pressures distorted the ancient simplicities .
2 Champagne became the sole refreshment , and topless girls sported trays of Havana cigars and hashish cigarettes .
3 Such dreary teaching could be eliminated if literature were separated from language , theory from practice , and literature became the chosen subject only for those who had a particular aptitude for it , or a desire to learn to criticize and analyse .
4 As Julian Leff points out : ‘ it seems likely that if the uniqueness of the individual 's inner experience became the dominant value in society , the bonds between people would be so attenuated that such a society would probably not be viable . ’
5 No major developments in military technology occurred but , significantly , in 1704 pikes were finally phased out , and in 1706 a musket and socket-bayonet became the standard small-arm .
6 With the unforeseen addition of partly suspended sentences when the Bill reached the Commons , the resulting measure became the Criminal Law Act 1977 , finally amounting to sixty-five sections and fourteen schedules .
7 Moreover , the relative value of gold to silver was much lower in western Europe than it was further east , in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds , so gold tended to leave western Europe and silver became the principal medium for coinage .
8 ANYTHING you can do … seven weeks after a Coventry Courtaulds employee became the proud father of quads a colleague in Grimsby went two better by becoming dad to sextuplets .
9 In some stations the train-shed became the central feature , an eye-catching shape dwarfing an insignificant frontage : thus , for instance Manchester Central ( 1880 ) , 210 ft. , and Liverpool Central ( 1874 ) , 169 ft .
10 The third defendant became the managing director of C.M.C. at or soon after its incorporation .
11 Survey research became the paradigmatical method of sociology .
12 It must in effect become the actual embodiment of the idealized , phantasied parent of early childhood , the parent who is omnipresently nurturing , omnisciently caring and omnipotently protecting .
13 If the houses are bought by the council then the occupants remain secure tenants , but if a private landlord or a housing association becomes the new owner then occupants become assured tenants .
14 If this religion becomes the powerful complement to lawfully elected government , which would be a very desirable development , then those decisions would settle many controversial issues which at present are successfully resolved by neither statute-law , nor , to the slightest degree by a respected and accepted moral code .
15 McCarthy 's bid to become the Democratic nominee for president was getting up steam , and his following included the liberal Hollywood establishment , among them Paul Newman , Joanne Woodward , Robert Redford and Warren Beatty .
16 He quickly established its critical reputation and the Institute became the focal point of specialist dissent from the official line .
17 The simple truth is that for the duration of the tours rugby became the political football in the power-broking struggle currently being played out between the various factions in South African politics .
18 After 1945 this philosophy became the conventional wisdom and governments accepted that they had a responsibility for macroeconomic management , predominantly through their own fiscal position .
19 Accordingly , manpower budgeting became the central task of wartime planning .
20 , national accounts controller became the proud father of a son , on .
21 This boy became the Dutch poet , Ed Hoornik .
22 The Palais Club had a membership in 1928 ‘ well past the ½ thousand mark ’ and it grew fast as dancing became the major pastime of the 30s and 40s .
23 Peace became the popular cry .
24 The all too common crash becomes the daily round .
25 Hence , the powerful manager at work becomes the powerless driver of a vehicle caught in a traffic jam .
26 Moreover , the depreciation debate will be ‘ dusted off ’ after years of shelf-life and revisited in more depth as depreciation becomes the major cost .
27 In ultra-sophisticated black , the Moffat Discovery becomes the high-tech feature in the very latest kitchen designs .
28 A blue 1.6 Carina emerged from a cloud of dry ice to become the Japanese giant 's first ‘ made in Britain ’ car .
29 A blue 1.6 Carina emerged from a cloud of dry ice to become the Japanese giant 's first ‘ made in Britain ’ car .
30 Tax became the great argument at the election , he says , because Mr Smith excluded all other economic ones .
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