Example sentences of "what become [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September 1976 when — as this week — Blackpool 's Winter Gardens played host to a government in turmoil , James Callaghan and Denis Healey had to confront what became known as the IMF crisis . |
| 2 | At the 1989 Annual Conference in Bournemouth it was resolved to support the RAF Benevolent Fund 's 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Appeal , and Branches were asked to provide support at local level for what became known as the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal . |
| 3 | At the culmination of what became known as the ‘ Eggwina ’ crisis , she infuriated egg producers by claiming that most British egg production was infected by salmonella . |
| 4 | Finally he perfected what became known as the Lewes bomb , and a demonstration was arranged before an invited audience , including the senior Royal Engineer . |
| 5 | What became known as the First Series was published by Macrone in two volumes in Feb. 1836 with 16 illustrations by Cruikshank . |
| 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 | During the 1960s , and what became known as the ‘ permissive society ’ , it was perhaps sexuality that became the dominant form of hedonism . |
| 8 | In what became known as the ‘ City trial of the century ’ , Saunders received the longest prison sentence of five years . |
| 9 | The debate went onto the streets in what became known as the ‘ Democracy Wall ’ movement . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some supporters of what became known as the free produce movement none the less had earlier experience of boycotting West Indian rum and sugar . |
| 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 | In mid-January 1915 China was presented with what became known as the ‘ Twenty One Demands ’ , a call for China to make certain economic , political and military concessions . |
| 14 | What became known as the Naythuyein Mass Meeting heard Aung San speak about the Burmese contribution to the Allied cause ; he saw Labour 's victory as a sign that imperialism was on the way out and he affirmed that ‘ 99 per cent of the PBF would be unwilling to serve in the fighting forces of a country that was not free ’ . |
| 15 | The major developments in the twentieth century involved an eastward shift and the opening up of a number of large , highly productive pits in what became known as the Dukeries field . |
| 16 | On 6 April the USA declared war on Germany and on the following 8 May a conference was held between the US Shipping Board , the US Steamship Owners and the US International Seamen 's Union which resulted in what became known as the " Atlantic Agreement " which laid down manning levels , wages and bonuses . |
| 17 | Thus there was little incentive to overcome the second factor , namely that Moscow 's early view of Latin America was governed by what became known as the law of ‘ geographical fatalism ’ . |
| 18 | Thus , in the 1960s , the initiative passed to what became known as the ‘ New Left ’ — which in practice referred to all those who sought radical social change in Latin America . |
| 19 | In a speech delivered in 1976 when he was Prime Minister , Sir James Callaghan sparked off what became known as the ‘ great debate ’ about the quality and role of education in Britain . |
| 20 | In the fall of 1978 , while the Shah 's power was draining away from him in Teheran and riots against his rule dominated the US television news , Sadat was closeted with Menahcem Begin and Jimmy Carter in the Maryland hills working out the interstices of what became known as the Camp David Agreement . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A leading figure in the ruling Justicialist Party ( Partido Justicialista — the formal name for the Peronists ) , Lúder had been interim head of state in 1975 ( during the illness of the then President , Maria Estela Martínez de Perón ) , and had sanctioned the commencement of what became known as the military 's " dirty war " ( 1976-1983 ) against " left-wing guerrillas " . |
| 23 | Obliged to resign in 1974 when his aide Günther Guillaume was revealed as an East German spy , Brandt later headed what became known as the Brandt Commission on development issues , and from 1976 until September 1992 was president of the Socialist International [ see p. 39122 ] . |
| 24 | Worries now shifted to the higher prices and to what became known as the ‘ recycling problem ’ . |
| 25 | What became enshrined in the new legislation were more stringent penalties for brothel-keepers and the raising of the age of consent to sixteen . |
| 26 | Beijing University students fifty years before had dared to protest against the first Japanese invasion and Chiang Kaishek 's apparent complicity in their designs in what become known as the ‘ December Ninth ’ movement . |
| 27 | The hard-driving General Leslie R. Groves ( Brian Dennehey ) is put in charge of what becomes known as the Manhattan Project . |
| 28 | The UK announces that it will send air and naval forces to join what becomes known as the multinational force . |