Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time Hill had become a recognized Evangelical leader in Oxford . |
| 2 | On Page One , at the top of the TV news , the fight for the Democratic Party 's nomination for the Presidency of the United States had become a media-induced fight between two minorities : Jews and Blacks . |
| 3 | By 1946 , Ghatak had become a Marxist activist , this was the year that the communal rioting leading up to Partition began in earnest . |
| 4 | The downside of the book is that it is written in a terribly deadpan style : ‘ At forty-five Picasso had become a successful man . |
| 5 | But England ceased to become a Catholic er country and we had the Reformation and the emphasis changed from people looking at these spectacular coloured windows to learn about the Bible bec er and people started to read , literacy came in . |
| 6 | Over the space of a decade the CNAA had become a different organization . |
| 7 | Ferruzzi Finanziaria had become a powerful force in chemicals as well as agribusiness through the acquisition of Montedison in 1987 . |
| 8 | Praag had become a living nightmare and a taste of what lay ahead if the Chaos armies conquered the rest of the land . |
| 9 | Nano said that through Italian mediation Albania hoped to become a full member of the European Communities . |
| 10 | At the signing ceremony , Kravchuk endorsed the arms reduction treaty between Russia and the USA , but emphasised that while Ukraine intended to become a non-nuclear power , the summit treaties applied to Russia alone and Ukraine would be an independent party to any treaties stemming from former USA-Soviet Union agreements . |
| 11 | All his life Eddie would stop if an idea came to him , even in the middle of the road ; in the First World War shortsighted Dilly tried to become a night-time despatch rider , claiming that in the dark there was no difference between good sight and bad . |
| 12 | Many had become illustrious ; some , like Wellington , world-famous , a few notorious : Sir Francis Verney had become a Barbary pirate , Greenhall had been hanged as a highwayman . |
| 13 | Just as she had predicted , Matthew had become a fine young man , tall and strong , and markedly handsome , with his wayward mop of brown hair and those dark violet eyes that still held a world of bitterness whenever they looked on her . |
| 14 | Uncle Fred had become a marine because of rather unusual circumstances . |
| 15 | Arthur had become a professional musical instrument maker . |
| 16 | The Rand Corporation 's report claimed that Israel had become a back door for Chinese acquisition of military technology . |
| 17 | By 1981 , with the expanded production of North Sea oil and gas , the UK had become a net exporter of fuel again . |
| 18 | It would be too much to say that by 1870 Paris had become a fragrant bower — few cities ever manage that — but it certainly was less odorous and pestilential than it had been . |
| 19 | Mass unemployment was fully appreciated and influenced the thinking of all governments , which in Britain had become a strong Labour government , following a general election , leaving Winston Churchill as the leader of a small Conservative opposition . |
| 20 | The potential role of Latin America in any conflict between the United States and Great Britain had become a main concern of Comintern policy by 1928 , when its Sixth Congress was held . |
| 21 | Walsh did not rule out the possibility of criminal charges against former members of Reagan 's Cabinet , however , and there were strong suggestions that former Attorney General Edwin Meese had become a key target of the investigation . |
| 22 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
| 23 | Johnson finds fault justifiably with Woodhouse 's early verse ; however , Woodhouse did become a good poet , though there is no reason why Johnson should have foreseen this . |
| 24 | Then , after its founding in early 1967 , the NF mobilised to become a significant , if localised , force during the early and mid-1970s , especially in 1972-73 , after the arrival in Britain of displaced Ugandan Asians , and again in 1976 , when Malawian Asians arrived as refugees and were greeted by a moral panic about immigrants , legal and illegal , that continued into 1977 , and gave some local impetus to the NF 's electoral attempts at that time . |
| 25 | The Old Contemptibles had become a compulsory and unwilling army . |
| 26 | David Hartridge had become a fully-fledged pilot and was looked upon as a hero . |
| 27 | Ten years later , George had become a woollen cloth dresser but Smith ( as he was normally known ) walked 3 miles each day to Samuel Fox 's new steelworks at Stocksbridge to work as a steel temperer . |
| 28 | Eckford had become a wealthy man and , having bought a mansion and estate on Manhattan Island , he dabbled in politics . |
| 29 | Geoff progressed to become a bound apprentice at the age of sixteen . |
| 30 | Three generations later , Nottingham had become a squalid mess . |