Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter , the entire conflict became internalized as the collective anxiety hysteria which we know today as totemic religion . |
| 2 | Hua 's ‘ two whatevers ’ policy seemed doomed as the important article , ‘ Practice is the Sole Criterion for Testing Truth ’ , was published in May 1978 . |
| 3 | Later , Valencia came to dominate as the major lustreware centre . |
| 4 | But to detectives who investigated the crimes of Dr Courtney , he began to emerge as the perfect model of a rapist . |
| 5 | On the extreme Left the Communist Party began to emerge as the dominant group although throughout the decade the ILP had more electoral and parliamentary influence . |
| 6 | Some will still recall the warm fire at the far end of what became known as the Primary Room and the tiny wooden chairs which allowed small feet almost to reach the ground . |
| 7 | His force had recently been strengthened by a group of Greeks , who became known as the Sacred Squadron , the latest recruits to the SAS empire . |
| 8 | In the Three Essays on the theory of Sexuality ( 1905 ) there was almost nothing on the phase which followed the anal , and which became known as the phallic stage . |
| 9 | On 2nd June 1914 , The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife , were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb and that triggered a series of events that led to the outbreak of war on 4th , August 1914 — the war that became known as The Great War . |
| 10 | This was the same fault , as it turned out , which cut off the Bonsor Vein at its northern end , and became known as the Great , or Kernal Cross-course . |
| 11 | That of 1814 , however , became known as the Great Revival and it was much more than simply a recruitment phenomenon . |
| 12 | The arguments were fleshed out by the foreign Minister , Selwyn Lloyd , at a NATO Council meeting in December , where he introduced proposals for what became known as the Grand Design . |
| 13 | She became known as the Chinese ‘ Green ’ leader . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This became known as the retail price index ( RPI ) plus K factor , where K varied for different water authorities between 3 per cent and 7 per cent . |
| 16 | It became known as the Pleven Plan , named after the French premier , René Pleven , who took an outline drafted by his earlier mentor , Jean Monnet , and laid it before the French Parliament on 24 October 1950 . |
| 17 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 18 | Through this , from 1 January 1948 , the Works became known as The British Railways Carriage & Wagon Works , Wolverton . |
| 19 | The Committee met weekly at the Thatch 'd House Tavern in St James 's Street and for that reason became known as The Thatched House Society . |
| 20 | The remainder of Ireland became known as the Free State of Eire , but disagreement about that partition of Ireland became an inflamed issue within the Free State , and it led to bloody civil war there , after 50,000 British troops were withdrawn , in 1922 . |
| 21 | Some supporters of what became known as the free produce movement none the less had earlier experience of boycotting West Indian rum and sugar . |
| 22 | For a time it became known as the Old Mill , and later Mill House . |
| 23 | The needs of children , especially those without parents , concerned the hearts and minds of Christian people , and one such person was Dr. Stephenson , who founded a home for such children , in 1876 , and that organisation became known as the National Childrens ' Homes . |
| 24 | This airframe was the founder member of what became known as the National Aeronautical Collection ( NAC ) and the bulk of the airframes presented in the new gallery are from that grouping . |
| 25 | His ghost became known as the Bad Lord , it being a noxious POLTERGEIST who irritates the family 's descendants more as time goes by — roaring in the cellars , splintering furniture and frightening maidservants . |
| 26 | Their association became known as the Royal Mines Copper ( as distinct from the old Company or Society of Mines Royal ) . |
| 27 | In particular , the litopterns , like the horses , lost all their toes except the middle one on each leg , which became enlarged as the bottom joint of the leg and developed a hoof . |
| 28 | Too early for the ballet , Gina wandered around giving herself up to the magic of the gardens , walking round the lake where large metal dragon-flies appeared to hover as the flickering lights in their wings simulated movement . |
| 29 | To the mass of Americans , he remained " Ike " — a friendly and unpretentious man , who " incorporated in personality , manner and appearance all that Americans liked to picture as the national virtues " . |
| 30 | What Dudley had dismissed as the faceless commonalty Smith perceived as three distinct status groups , and accordingly found space to comment on each . |