Example sentences of "become [verb] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area north of Bedford House , which itself was just north of the Green , consisted of orchard and market garden land , so Mr. Carr 's idea led to the area of Bedford Park becoming known as the first Garden Suburb , with three principal architects designing the buildings , Norman Shaw , E.W. Godwin and E.T . |
| 2 | In the years when Hartley was building Albert Dock and other extensions of the system , Liverpool was rapidly becoming established as the second most important port in Britain , and Albert Dock , which has outlived its usefulness , stands as a monument both to Hartley and to Liverpool 's Victorian prosperity . |
| 3 | Thereafter , the entire conflict became internalized as the collective anxiety hysteria which we know today as totemic religion . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | What was it like ? ’ you grandchildren may ask in the future , for the late eighties in Britain might well become known as the second ‘ Belle Epoque ’ . |
| 6 | Full details will become known as the successive subject working groups report , and programmes of study and attainment targets are drawn up . |
| 7 | Daily newspapers are now becoming popular , providing the first phase of what will later become known as the mass media . |
| 8 | The case method had become adopted as the dominant method of legal study in the elite American law schools in the period up to the First World War . |
| 9 | No side has won successive grand slams since Wavell Wakefield 's England of 1924 , though it is worth recalling that what has become known as the Irish Problem deprived Wales in Barry John 's farewell year , 1972 ; they won handsomely against England , France and Scotland but like the Scots dared not venture to Dublin at the height of The Troubles . |
| 10 | This gives rise to the danger of what has become known as the two-thirds , one-third society in which the majority obtains secure well-paid full-time ‘ core ’ jobs and the minority become ‘ marginalised ’ , obtaining less well-paid , part-time , temporary , ‘ peripheral ’ jobs and hovering on the verge of poverty . |
| 11 | The results of these and other experiments fit in well with the predictions of what has become known as the standard electroweak model . |
| 12 | Spasticity , which comes from the word ‘ spasm ’ , has become known as the common term for the whole range of cerebral palsy handicaps but the three forms are significantly different . |
| 13 | The school is a snapshot of the American West , the great swath of the Plains between the Missouri River and the Rockies that makes up one fifth of continental America but which in the last generation has become known as the Empty Quarter , or the Dying Heart of the US . |
| 14 | The monitoring network has become known as the radioactive incident monitoring network ( RIMNET ) and has , as its prime responsibility , the detection of abnormal increases in radiation levels within the UK of the kind that might arise from an overseas nuclear accident . |
| 15 | Secondly , we outline what has become known as the Keynesian theory of national income determination . |
| 16 | Forced labour was indeed the form taken by the administration 's next major effort to deal with what had become known as the moran problem . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it has become established as the only real alternative for organisations seeking to avoid or escape proprietary , single vendor solutions . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it has become established as the only real alternative for organisations seeking to avoid or escape proprietary , single-vendor systems . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | What became known as the First Series was published by Macrone in two volumes in Feb. 1836 with 16 illustrations by Cruikshank . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | West Germany , Switzerland , Austria and Canada all welcomed the proposal and , along with Scandinavia , became known as the Thirty Per Cent Club . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | That of 1814 , however , became known as the Great Revival and it was much more than simply a recruitment phenomenon . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She became known as the Chinese ‘ Green ’ leader . |