Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] become [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each day they became fewer until my image of the tree became a pink and brown blur , it being blossom time . |
| 2 | The portico of St Paul 's in London was let out to shopkeepers , and the main body of the church became a cavalry stables . |
| 3 | When General Motors took a 40% share of Isuzu there were rumours of the Trooper becoming a Vauxhall , but it did n't . |
| 4 | Though not part of the Primary Needs Programme , the parallel expansion of the advisory service needs to be noted in this context , since members of the service became the Authority 's chief agents in PNP 's interpretation and implementation . |
| 5 | ( 7 ) If an employee of the Council becomes a member of the Council and was by reference to his employment by the Council a participant in a pension scheme such as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( 5 ) above — |
| 6 | Their lawyers say the couple have been robbed of the opportunity to become a mother and father and the child has been denied the chance to nurtured by the ‘ these loving parents ’ . |
| 7 | This change in the law and in the locus of power will not end the debate , which has prevailed for a number of years , about control of the curriculum of schools ; such a debate emerged once the content of the curriculum become a controversial subject in the 1960s and has continued since . |
| 8 | The difference of the other becomes a displaced and intensified facet of the same , the object of desire and disgust . |
| 9 | In the context of the late 1985 competitive battle to gain market share , ‘ re-issuing ’ of the brochure became a commonplace as price reductions were instituted . |
| 10 | For some the love of the chase becomes an end in itself . |
| 11 | The shaking of the head became a violent fit of denial , and he let out a strange sob , knowing back his head as he did so . |
| 12 | Thus the very distinctiveness of the Creole becomes the point to focus on — and therein lies its symbolic value as a variety maximally opposed to Standard English . |
| 13 | Elsewhere , railways in the last years of the century became an inseparable feature of the ambitions of a self-confident age . |
| 14 | In the evening there was an example of a shift in emphasis that was so pronounced as to cause that part of the day to become an event in its own right . |
| 15 | Although this happened before my time with 57 Squadron one of the crew became a good friend before he remustered from A/G for pilot training and he was very proud of his Caterpillar Club membership . |
| 16 | The allocation of the increment becomes the key decision . |
| 17 | From then on , development of the magnetron became a cooperative effort between university and industry in the UK : E. C. S. Megaw of the Research Laboratories of the GEC was let into the secret and went back to Wembley to construct the first sealed-off model . |
| 18 | It was little more than a glass-sided army hut , but there was plenty of mahogany , ebony and zebra skin , and a tall cone of polished copper in the centre of the floor became a fireplace at the touch of a switch . |
| 19 | Only in June 1989 , when the highest authority of the land became the newly elected Congress of People 's Deputies of the USSR and when the draft of the new law on the press provided for the abolition of censorship , did Novy Mir publish Medvedev 's story for the benefit of its 1,600,000 subscribers . |
| 20 | Sometimes , as in the Dutch and East Anglian landscape paintings , the detailing of the sky becomes the top weight . |
| 21 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 22 | Rival views of the revolution became an important part of the struggle over power and policy between the ‘ Left Opposition ’ identified with Trotsky , the ‘ Right Opposition ’ identified with Bukharin , and the ultimately victorious line identified with Stalin . |
| 23 | ‘ What was once a one mile journey into Garrison for someone living just on the other side of the border became a 26 mile round trip . |
| 24 | As the sun dipped behind the trees , and then below the western hill , the prospects of the night became a silent issue . |
| 25 | Only in modern times , since the power of ruling groups was explicitly and widely challenged in the name of democracy , and later of social democracy , has the question of the nature and basis of the state become a matter of acute controversy , giving rise to the two antithetical conceptions which I have indicated . |
| 26 | The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years . |
| 27 | The low registers of the caller become the high registers of the callee , by overlapping the registers of the calling frame with the high registers of the called frame . |
| 28 | The cottage they bought 38 years ago for £4,500 will be swept away as the last unspoilt corner of the village becomes an estate of 150 homes . |
| 29 | Is there any danger of the Sun becoming a black hole ? ’ |
| 30 | Iraq 's expansion of the port of Umm Qasr and the development of the Rumalla oil field during the 1970s meant that a settlement of the dispute became a prime Iraqi objective . |