Example sentences of "it [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But , above all , it divided the Liberal Party for in 1916 David Lloyd George replaced Asquith as Prime Minister of the Coalition government . |
| 32 | It solidified the tentative ideas that had been evolving in Whitehall since the drafting of the 1952 Global Strategy paper ; and it was , in many respects , ahead of thinking in Washington , where traditional military orthodoxy still held sway . |
| 33 | On the one hand , it sought the national renewal that the Resistance and de Gaulle himself had talked about — a more egalitarian , modern , and productive society and a new republic . |
| 34 | The phrase caught on , and although Peterloo was only one of several similar incidents around that time , it became the one people remembered . |
| 35 | The powers of the Federal government inevitably increased as it became the chief customer for the war materials poured out by industry . |
| 36 | In the Zurvanite heresy it became the supreme deity . |
| 37 | Nineteenth-century legislation swept away the fictions upon which trover was based and it became the modern action for conversion , though no change was made in the substance of the law . |
| 38 | The fortress commanded a view up the narrow valley of the Yucay River , as it wound past the ancient Inca town tucked in the crux of the mountains , before it became the turbulent Urubamba . |
| 39 | Then it became the only way to work : shut mother out , shut out her demands , her outrages , concentrate , work . |
| 40 | In 1990 it became the first company to offer on-line access to data from Companies House on all limited companies operating in the UK . |
| 41 | Under the reforms of Josef II , when the Jesuit Order was abolished , the Clementinum became a seminary under the supervision of the archbishop of Prague , and in 1799 it became the first Academy of Fine Arts . |
| 42 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 43 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |
| 44 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 45 | In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin . |
| 46 | When it became the Combined Studies ( Creative and Performing Arts ) Board it set up its own panels , including , in November 1975 , a Movement and Dance Panel under the chairmanship of Peter Brinson . |
| 47 | Colworth was an Elizabethan house in origin , altered in the 1760s and again about 1810 : it became the principal residence of Magniac , who again extended the house , which he acquired outright in 1854 . |
| 48 | It became the Great Depression as successive waves of bank failures rolled over America 's monetary system . |
| 49 | Stravinsky had started composing Les Noces before 1913 and often played it toDiaghilev , gradually simplifying his ideas until it became the present cantata for voices , four pianos and percussion . |
| 50 | Before 1914 , it became the Irish TUC and Labour Party and was neutral to the Easter rising of 1916 . |
| 51 | At 20 he went to the New Musical Express , and edited it through the 1970s , when it became the bestselling rock mag in Britain , with a rich crop of young writers such as Julie Burchill , Tony Parsons , Danny Baker , Paul Morley and Charles Shaar Murray . |
| 52 | No longer a mixture of local dialects , Standard English " had emerged " , and the east Midland dialect " had now become " the King " s English ; finally , " through the works of Chaucer it became the literary language of the country " . |
| 53 | Previously active in the southern department of Cauca , it became the fourth guerrilla group to give up the armed struggle following the example of the M-19 [ see p. 37311 ] , the People 's Liberation Army ( EPL ) and the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) [ see p. 38094 ] , each of which had returned to mainstream politics . |
| 54 | It became the local community creative scene encompassing not only music , but mime , drama , poetry reading and in fact , an outlet for local cottage industry . |
| 55 | Developed by Adobe Systems and launched onto an unsuspecting world in 1984 by Apple with its LaserWriter printer it became the underlying reason that desktop publishing succeeded . |
| 56 | In the case which we have just been discussing , that of the common , oppressed people , it is a question of the superego being degraded by alcoholic intoxication to the point where it and the ego can merge ( or , at least where it no longer chastizes the ego ) ; but in the case of the Inca himself we saw that it was a case of a pre-eminent individual whose ego was exalted to the point where it became the ideal ego of the entire civilization . |
| 57 | Nevertheless , the Rokkaku cult spread from the USA and UK into Australia , Tasmania , New Zealand , Italy , Belgium and Germany , such that it became the ideal barrier-breaker that brought flyers together . |
| 58 | It became the last stop for taking on provisions for the large convoys of merchant and naval ships crossing the Atlantic . |
| 59 | It became the common currency of speeches on the empire to advocate the extension of the principle of self-government to all within it , even unto the lowliest . |
| 60 | It became the common view that any British retailer attempting to expand abroad signalled a deterioration in its fortunes , with the consequent lack of interest from the City . |