Example sentences of "[adv] become [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upmarket London furniture store Heals , fashion chain Richard Shops and finally British Home Stores were absorbed into the group , which eventually became known as the Storehouse group . |
| 2 | Car 68 was withdrawn and replaced in the following year by a modernistic design , which eventually became known as the Bandwagon . |
| 3 | Six hundred people in the business coughed up £2 10s 0d each , thereby becoming known as the Noble Six Hundred ; subsequent donations and the proceeds of Royal Variety performances meant that a nursing wing was added two years ago , and today there are 36 residents with a staff of 60 to look after them . |
| 4 | The blades , twisted like tentacles , were then dumped in the corner of the field , near a hangar , which of course swiftly became known as the Octopus Den . |
| 5 | It only became connected with the miracle because both events took place in the same village . |
| 6 | He had only become involved after the defendant 's negligent act . |
| 7 | The Bolsheviks had suddenly become exposed to the full blast of inter-state competition . |
| 8 | However , if one maiden is foolish or churlish enough to become upset by the sight of Fossegrim , he could well overturn the boat from spite . |
| 9 | Those condemned to lose soon became irritated by the game ; and to the extent that the winners enjoyed the game , they ceased acting in a comradely spirit . |
| 10 | It was deserted and quiet , and she soon became absorbed in the chapter on leukaemia . |
| 11 | She soon became intrigued by the possibilities of the medium , acquired practical skills , and went on , in the 1960s , to establish her own portrait studio in Hampstead . |
| 12 | One year after Brooklands opened , A V Roe , one of Britain 's aviation pioneers arrived on site , other aviators followed , flying schools were set up and Brooklands soon became known for the ‘ art of aviating ’ . |
| 13 | Prior to the setting up of the CIVC , the single most effective body responsible for guarding the quality of Champagne today , a decree was passed on 28 September 1935 creating an inter-professional organisation called the Commission Spéciale de la Champagne , which soon became known as the Commission de Châlons because its meetings were held in the Prefecture ( the administrative centre ) at Châlons-sur-Marne . |
| 14 | The pulse code modulated recorder , using either plastic or steel tape or wire as the recording medium , soon became known as the ‘ second generation ’ type of FDR , and in due course the USA introduced American versions in some of their wide bodied jets and called them DFDRs — digital flight data recorders . |
| 15 | It was Cuvier 's English followers who did much to open up what soon became known as the ‘ age of reptiles ’ . |
| 16 | Dotrice , who comes from a showbusiness family — her father is actor Roy — had been acting since childhood and soon became known as the long-suffering wife of television 's most disaster-prone character . |
| 17 | Dositej entered the Hopovo monastery in the Fruška Gora at the age of sixteen , but he soon became disillusioned with the restricted life of a monk and two years later he escaped . |
| 18 | They thus became excluded from the social networks of employed people which are vital for job-acquisition ( Callender , 1986a ) . |
| 19 | US dollars thus became owned by the exporters to the US . |
| 20 | What actually happened was that she somehow became separated from the others , decided to walk to work and fell in a ditch on her way up the hill . |
| 21 | The half inch I 'd added to the 5ft 8in , somehow became attached to the 5ft 9in . |
| 22 | However , during late pregnancy and early lactation , such treated ewes will soon become reinfected from the ingestion of overwintered larvae on the pasture . |
| 23 | I think if you do n't do that , you 'll very easily become over-influenced at the time by the fact that it is a crisis you 're dealing with . |
| 24 | On thawing in spring the fine soil collapses and falls past the stones , which thus become isolated at the surface and encircle the actively freezing and thawing material . |
| 25 | The more powerful modern pumps mean that the marshes no longer become flooded during the winter months , and as a consequence the water table has been lowered . |
| 26 | For one thing , the negative associations of blackness with impurity , evil , misery and dirt had already become established in the English language , partly through the colour symbolism of Christian doctrine ( James , 1981 ; Dabydeen , 1985a ) . |
| 27 | Moreover , high inflation rates were and are of particular concern because of the danger that the monetary and financial systems might collapse as conventional money no longer becomes accepted as the medium of exchange . |
| 28 | When knitting with more than two colours and not having a colour changer I found that no matter where I place the cones on the floor , the colour I was knitting always became entangled with the others not in use . |
| 29 | Among orthodox men of learning the biblical axiom that species are fixed entities established by God at the Creation gradually became qualified by the doctrine of plenitude , the Great Chain of Being , which declared that God , as artist creator , would necessarily have created all possible creatures in all possible worlds , and that the creatures which we now know on earth are but a fraction of those which exist in the universe . |
| 30 | The Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations , who quickly became known as the ‘ Lords of Trade ’ , were the direct descendant of a committee of the Privy Council suggested by Ashley , on which Locke had served . |