Example sentences of "[noun prp] had become [art] [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 | What appealed to both partners was that by doing so well in the revue , Ken had become an established comedy actor — not comedian , but comedy actor — and that was the kind they were looking for . |
| 4 | By 1946 , Ghatak had become a Marxist activist , this was the year that the communal rioting leading up to Partition began in earnest . |
| 5 | The downside of the book is that it is written in a terribly deadpan style : ‘ At forty-five Picasso had become a successful man . |
| 6 | Over the space of a decade the CNAA had become a different organization . |
| 7 | Beside him , Anwar had become an old man . |
| 8 | Ferruzzi Finanziaria had become a powerful force in chemicals as well as agribusiness through the acquisition of Montedison in 1987 . |
| 9 | Praag had become a living nightmare and a taste of what lay ahead if the Chaos armies conquered the rest of the land . |
| 10 | Within three months , the refugee from England had become the known and acknowledged assistant of two of the greatest powers in the land . |
| 11 | The neighbouring British Virgin Islands had become an associate member of the OECS in 1984 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | By 1981 , with the expanded production of North Sea oil and gas , the UK had become a net exporter of fuel again . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Bush had become an old bore . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | By the time of the PDC 's election defeat by the right-wing National Republican Alliance ( Arena ) in March 1989 [ see p. 36520 ] Duarte had become an isolated political figure . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Ademar had become the undisputed head of the Taillefer family after the death of his brother William a few years earlier . |
| 28 | The Old Contemptibles had become a compulsory and unwilling army . |
| 29 | David Hartridge had become a fully-fledged pilot and was looked upon as a hero . |
| 30 | Mitterrand accepted the resignation of Chevènement as Defence Minister on Jan. 29 after a period of several months during which his outspoken pro-Arab views and his opposition to war in the Gulf had become an increasing source of tension within the government . |