Example sentences of "had become the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All were aware that he had become the vessel of a transcendent power . |
| 2 | Betrayal had become the name of his quarry . |
| 3 | The Jaguar had become the meat in a sandwich . |
| 4 | In point of fact , in terms of Catholic tradition , the challenges here might be less awkward than those of phase 2 ( and to some extent John Paul II was able to recognize this ) , but the crucial ecclesiastical issue once more ( as in phase 1 ) had become the acceptability of diversity , and the curial mind had never escaped from the conviction that unity requires uniformity . |
| 5 | The reaction of any neutral bystander could only be that the judge had become the adversary of the defence . |
| 6 | In classical times , Athena had become the warrior-queen of her city on the mainland . |
| 7 | The Haleiwa Theatre was a pink , art deco pleasure dome built by the sugar barons which by the sixties had become the hub of social activity , screening nightly surf movies . |
| 8 | By 1914 , it had become the headquarters of the Village Institute stopped generating electricity and was , in the 1930s , largely destroyed by fire . |
| 9 | On July 25-26 they moved into the building in Karantina , Beirut , which had formerly housed the Health Ministry but which during the civil war had become the headquarters of the LF . |
| 10 | In October Bassingbourn had become the home of 231 ( Mosquito ) OCU and 237 ( Meteor ) OCU and it was on the Meteors that the initial staff work-up was done , the first Canberras did not arrive until the following February . |
| 11 | Even more did she rely on the guidance of Sir Keith Joseph , another rebel against the Heath interlude , whose speeches in 1974 first traced the clear lines of monetarism and market strategy which by 1979 had become the orthodoxy in many Conservative circles . |
| 12 | The hospitality of the religious houses had become the responsibility of the gentry . |
| 13 | Against this background the institutions which had become the responsibility of Bedfordshire County Council were under pressure which was reflected in the occupancy figures at St. Peter 's for July 1931 : |
| 14 | A decade later , after the satire boom and a score of grim socially realistic documentaries , the BBC had become the bête-noire of a thousand Conservative social clubs . |
| 15 | Madeleine was only tolerated because she had become the mistress of their leader 's son , Chicot , who was a psychopath and a cold-blooded killer . |
| 16 | Considering the fears of Jacobite invasion there was something to be said for such a policy but it was not popular , especially in London , which had become the centre of support for Pitt and the war . |
| 17 | A delegate from Mexico argued that the United States had become the centre of gravity of imperialism , and it was this growing awareness of the importance of the United States which prompted the Comintern 's rising interest in Latin America , as the ‘ colonial , economic base of the new imperialism . |
| 18 | Mansell had become the master of the unexpected , the outrageous pass . |
| 19 | The Roman Watling Street , which had become the London to Holyhead road , was vastly improved and largely remade by Telford between 1820 and 1828 . |
| 20 | An Honourable Death is an imaginative recreation of the life of Hector MacDonald , the son of a Highland stonemason who ran away to the Army when 17 and by the end of the last century had become the hero of several adventures in far-flung parts of the British Empire . |
| 21 | The document had become the classic of dissent for these young men , each copy painstakingly written out in longhand . |
| 22 | By the end of the 1970s , the increasing weakness of American political parties had become the subject of comment and concern across the country . |
| 23 | His father owned a record shop in Baltimore and before he went to university he had become the buyer for the shop , a job which provided an unlikely education . |
| 24 | From this perspective , the capacity to appreciate literary texts had become the measure of the achievement of " qualitative " as opposed to " functional " literacy . |
| 25 | That was the extent to which the group had become the policeman of the left . |
| 26 | Yet we are still left with the impression that these two Greeks never quite understood what was really happening in the social organism which had become the guarantee of their own survival . |
| 27 | With dark hair cut quite short so that it revealed his classically shaped head , a deep tan finished with some light freckles , piercing blue eyes and a mouth that was generous in laughter and very straight and sober when he was absorbed in work , he had become the standard against which any other man she met was measured … and fell short . |
| 28 | He had become the president of a republic , exercising a defined formal and ceremonial function , and no amount of royal visits and royal Governors-General could alter the fact . |
| 29 | By 1962 , a comparatively young man , John Kennedy , had become the President of the United States of America , and possibly Khrushchev of the U.S.S.R. |
| 30 | The issue now facing the Party had become the defeat of global finance capital , and in that struggle the Party could choose to support the rights of national independence or of world proletarian unity , but not both . |