Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] become the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iraq eventually announced on Aug. 28 that Kuwait had become the 19th Iraqi governorate ( liwa ) . |
| 2 | It was February 3 : on Feb 4 , two years before , Richard Hadlee had become the first to reach this once-unthinkable total . |
| 3 | To replenish the nursing stock the NHS had become the biggest public sector recruiter of qualified labour , taking one in three of female school leavers with between five " O " levels or GCSEs and two " A " levels . |
| 4 | Nicholson , Fonda and Hopper had become the best of friends . |
| 5 | Within three months , the refugee from England had become the known and acknowledged assistant of two of the greatest powers in the land . |
| 6 | At the end of the Second World War , Japan and China were both rundown but China had become the poor neighbour , a condition the students were not satisfied to accept without questions . |
| 7 | Thirty years earlier Guinness had become the largest brewers in Ireland . |
| 8 | In contesting the run-off , Young had become the first black candidate to progress beyond the primary stage of the electoral process for any state-wide office within the state of Georgia . |
| 9 | Norway had become the first NATO member to establish diplomatic relations with Russia , following moves by Bulgaria and Hungary . |
| 10 | By the 18th century , and the Industrial Revolution , Birmingham had become the commercial capital of the Midlands , and the ‘ workshop of the world ’ , with expertise in jewellery , guns , swords , buckles and buttons . |
| 11 | In 1992 the two countries had agreed to exchange Bank of China and Korean Exchange Bank officials and , in April , Lee Sang Ock had become the highest-ranking South Korean to visit China when he attended a meeting of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Beijing . |
| 12 | Ademar had become the undisputed head of the Taillefer family after the death of his brother William a few years earlier . |
| 13 | Finally , if Germany did become the true economic locomotive of Europe , then she could demand support from Europe if her economic strength ever began to falter , thus exploiting her weakness in the same way as she will exploit her strength . |
| 14 | The village possessed a charter to hold a fair twice a year , on 10th July and 2nd October , and a market was held every week in the Market Place , near to the cross , until Driffield developed to become the principal market town in the area , after which it was transferred there . |
| 15 | In his Climate and Evolution of 1914 Matthew argued that , since the last cold spell began in the Eocene , northern Asia had become the main centre for mammalian evolution . |
| 16 | And such was the momentum of the new German scholarship that by the beginning of the nineteenth century Germany had become the European centre for classical studies , traditional as well as new , and an unprecedented growth in the scale of scholarly work of a host of different kinds well under way . |
| 17 | By the 1870s Cardiff had become the largest town in Wales and the marquess was being hailed as its ‘ creator ’ . |
| 18 | Crosby reacted after Steve Coppell had become the latest name to be linked with the Roker Park job . |
| 19 | In the week before the visit , Keating had become the first Prime Minister to suggest that Australia drop the Union Flag device from its own , further fuelling public debate between republicans and monarchists about Australia 's status . |
| 20 | According to the newspaper La Nacion , Delia Adela Guevara de Palazzo missed becoming the first victim of space debris by 2 metres when a 1.5 kilogram fragment of the space station landed in her back garden . |
| 21 | ‘ Rassilon had become the first President of the Time Lords of Gallifrey . |