Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | On his death ten years later , he was succeeded as leader of the community by one of his companions , Abu Bakr , who later became seen as the first of a line of caliphs ( khulafa in Arabic ) . |
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 | 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 . |
4 | What became known as the First Series was published by Macrone in two volumes in Feb. 1836 with 16 illustrations by Cruikshank . |
5 | Stray dogs and chickens wandered in and had to be shooed out , and in the winter evenings when her mother told stories about saints and piskies and dragon-fillers by the light of the fire , the neighbouring children would crowd in at the door to listen , so that after a while her mother became known as the best storyteller in Polruan . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | West Germany , Switzerland , Austria and Canada all welcomed the proposal and , along with Scandinavia , became known as the Thirty Per Cent Club . |
9 | The band became known as the Thirty Comrades , their heroic status reflecting the company gathered round the great king Alaungpaya , although they were 68 in number . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | That of 1814 , however , became known as the Great Revival and it was much more than simply a recruitment phenomenon . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | She became known as the Chinese ‘ Green ’ leader . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | In 1936 as a result of the growing need to supply the every increasing numbers of mines in the area , Howey Bay became known as the busiest ‘ airport ’ in the world . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Through this , from 1 January 1948 , the Works became known as The British Railways Carriage & Wagon Works , Wolverton . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Some supporters of what became known as the free produce movement none the less had earlier experience of boycotting West Indian rum and sugar . |
24 | For a time it became known as the Old Mill , and later Mill House . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Their association became known as the Royal Mines Copper ( as distinct from the old Company or Society of Mines Royal ) . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | In the history of the Vietnamese communist movement , as Duiker says , the Eighth Plenum is traditionally regarded as the moment when nationalism and a rural strategy of people 's war became identified as the two pillars of Vietnamese revolutionary doctrine . |