Example sentences of "became the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She became the elfin presence , the luck charm , the sweet pet of the forest : and when she was sixteen , she met William , four years her senior , a carpenter just out of his apprenticeship in Lorton — the next village on from Buttermere — who came every week to make the first selection of wood from her father 's stock . |
| 2 | The Te Deum was never the most popular text amongst composers of the pre-Baroque , but in the eighteenth century it enjoyed a new , though rather limited , vogue : from Purcell and Handel to Haydn , festive settings with large and colourful forces became the norm . |
| 3 | Between 1921 and 1944 the population of Kenya grew from 2.3 million to 3.8 million , and annual rates of growth of more than 2 per cent became the norm across most of the continent . |
| 4 | The only inconvenience of the original interior was that the bedrooms all led into one another ( just as they had always done in houses past : passages were only deemed essential when the segregation of servants became the norm in the eighteenth century ) ; but this was overcome by making a gallery and rearranging the staircase . |
| 5 | Here , as so often , the protesting voices of the philosophic counter culture became the norm accepted by Christians : for them no place could be inherently sacred . |
| 6 | But once the Mutiny had raised the temperature of the relationship between Briton and Indian the fortified station became the norm . |
| 7 | When comprehensive schools became the norm there was still no serious attempt to rethink the curriculum or the values incorporated within it . |
| 8 | Half a century later , when vinyl discs became the norm , there was another complication . |
| 9 | These quickly became the norm . |
| 10 | Soon living colonies became the norm , and they began to proliferate . |
| 11 | This became the norm just before the Middle Ages . |
| 12 | On the whole , however , the trend in the USA was decidedly against broad industry bargaining arrangements , particularly in the dominant manufacturing sector , typified by large-scale firms , where single-employer bargaining units became the norm ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 13 | The Boards ' own contracting services and the customer canvassing activities of their salesmen played a part in remedying this situation ; and in most new houses ‘ ring ’ mains , with a range of socket outlets and the new standard 13 amp fused plugs , became the norm . |
| 14 | Once work for wages became the norm , different kinds of strategies necessarily took shape , although individual waged work did not remove the importance of the collective unit . |
| 15 | It is little wonder that this policy , coupled with their reliability , soon established the popularity of Japanese cars , and such product specification rapidly became the norm throughout the market . |
| 16 | The splendid and spirited pictures in the early printed herbals had been done this way , but as increasingly detailed and accurate illustrations were demanded , plates etched or engraved on copper became the norm . |
| 17 | Evolutionary explanations of society became the norm , especially through the writings of E. B. Tyler such as Primitive Culture ( 1871 ) ; while the excessive breeding of the unsuitable worried eugenicists such as Francis Galton , Darwin 's cousin and the inventor of fingerprinting . |
| 18 | The basic framework of rural settlement was augmented and many farmsteads were rebuilt and romanised , their people using Romano-British pottery , Roman coinage and other objects , and utilising the new features of dressed masonry , mortar , man-made roofing materials , heating systems , and mosaics — rectilinear planned buildings became the norm . |
| 19 | Shopfloor bargaining became standard in large plants and effective national negotiations became the norm . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , Vojvodina became the cradle of the Serbian renaissance . |
| 21 | Value for money became the watchword , explains Derek Kelly , a turkey breeder for over 40 years : ‘ It was all a matter of price per pound . ’ |
| 22 | The cigarette became the brand leader . |
| 23 | Royalty likes to go where royalty has already been , and in the second half of the last century Biarritz became the resort of monarchs from all over . |
| 24 | TELEVISION cameras turned their ‘ quarterly ’ gaze on Sussex 's Bluebell Railway recently when the operation became the back-drop for Belgium 's most famous moustache twirling detective , Hercule Poirot . |
| 25 | And that became the seed-crystal around which her tensions solidified . |
| 26 | When the Market was rebuilt by George Burt in 1875 , the fish left London and became the vane surmounting his new Purbeck House . |
| 27 | THE greatest survey ever into sexual habits reveals that the Great Aids Scare never became the nightmare that was feared . |
| 28 | It became the defence of peace and culture from the warmongering philistinism of fascism . |
| 29 | If once Romania was Ceauşescu , now it became the couple . |
| 30 | Take , for example , the class struggle in Bohemia-Moravia ( what later became the core of Czechoslovakia ) between the end of the last century and the 1930s . |