Example sentences of "[Wh det] became the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first reigned during a period of complex political change , and presided over the difficult transition from the Roman Republic and the civil wars which brought it to an end to the monarchical system which became the Roman empire ; Nero 's reign marks the abandonment of the pattern which had been established by Augustus . |
| 2 | When the Boards were abolished in 1902 , the Women 's Local Government Society fought to have women elected to the County and Borough Councils , which became the new Local Education Authorities ( LEAs ) . |
| 3 | The southern group , which became the Southern Railway , included the L&SWR . |
| 4 | This early text already exemplifies the pattern of narrative passages and meditations upon them which became the regular mode of presentation in the fuller texts of 1805 and 1850 ; and the sophisticated author is only too aware of the division within himself which the method leads to : |
| 5 | By now a confirmed Trotskyist , James had also published several more books : In 1936 , ‘ Minty Alley ’ — a short novel on Trinidad , and then ; in 1937 , ‘ World Revolution ’ — which became the virtual Bible of Trotskyism . |
| 6 | His publications included Electric Light Installations ( 1886 ) , which became the standard work on the subject . |
| 7 | Most verbs had three consonants , and it was these scribes who superimposed a system of vowels which became the standard text . |
| 8 | Wills , which became the Imperial Tobacco Company , were descended from Anthony Wills who was born c. 1510 and owned property in Cornwall . |
| 9 | These kids would hang out in The Sombrero in Kensington High Street and Chagueramas in Covent Garden — which became The Roxy Club a couple of years later . |
| 10 | The October 1973 war was the result of Egyptian-Soviet efforts to change the balance in the Middle East , but it was the United States which became the prime beneficiary . |
| 11 | Even without exploiting it himself , he was apt to give the impression of that ‘ aristocratic ’ radio sneer which became the audible signature of Lord Haw-Haw . |
| 12 | Sandys bowed to the political and industrial pressures generated by the Air Lobby and accepted the validity of the Air Staff requirement for GOR 339 , which became the ill-starred TSR 2 . |
| 13 | Norse raids down the west coast had already made it necessary to move sacred relics from St Columba 's isle of Iona to relative safety at Dunkeld in Perthshire , which became the ecclesiastical centre of the Scottish realm , though kings continued to be buried on Iona , as did several Viking chieftains . |
| 14 | By the 1930s the country 's bankers had built vast mining-to-manufacturing conglomerates , known as zaibatsu , which became the driving force of Japanese militarism . |
| 15 | In later life his love for seeking that which unites rather than that which divides found full scope in his devotion to Freemasonry , which became the ruling factor of his every action . |
| 16 | However , Buddhist teaching was not applied to fish , which became the main source of protein in the Japanese diet ; and whales were regarded as fish When eating houses renamed forbidden deer and boar meat ‘ mountain whale ’ , the Japanese knew that eating whale meat was likely to stay . |
| 17 | The CSSU , which became the main focus of the study , together with a centralised forward planning unit , employed a total of 150 staff under the joint control of the two Chief Officers . |
| 18 | In these , his use of mirrors and simple room arrangements indicated his developing interest in the modern movement in Europe , which became the main theme of his work in the 1930s , although never to the exclusion of other styles . |
| 19 | A growing and almost unreflective recognition of the diversity and unity within the Godhead led the New Testament writers to make the assertions which became the raw material for later Trinitarian orthodoxy . |
| 20 | Originally fought out in the south and west of Ireland , hostilities then shifted to the north which became the focal point of paramilitary gun battles and sectarian rioting . |
| 21 | Any attempt to prove that they were misled by fraud or otherwise would necessarily involve an inquiry into the manner in which they had performed their functions in dealing with the Bill which became the British Railways Act 1968 . |
| 22 | A school of painting grew up in Cuzco which became the leading centre of the production of paintings south of Mexico and exported paintings and painters to many other parts of the continent including remote areas . |
| 23 | Communists in the Russian Federation , the Soviet Union 's largest republic , on June 19 convened in Moscow for a conference which became the founding congress of a Russian Federation Communist Party ( CP ) , subordinate to the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) . |
| 24 | These were radical claims to make , not least because there was developing at exactly the same time a theory of absolute , unlimited sovereignty which became the intellectual basis for the absolutism which was the dominant pattern of rule in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , and in some countries , such as Russia and Austria , even lasted into the twentieth century . |
| 25 | What became the Criminal Justice Act of 1961 was a relatively short statute of forty-five sections and six schedules , with more of a coherent theme than is usually found in comparable legislation . |
| 26 | All that counts are the records , a rhythmically unusual Tex-Mex fusion of rock'n'roll and older western elements , pioneering what became the standard pop instrumentation of two guitars , bass and drums . |
| 27 | In 1887 , Kautsky , who was to become the most authoritative exponent of Marxism , gave what became the official account of the economic basis for modern nationalism — the drive to create a unified market for capitalist development . |
| 28 | After his release he lived in Kent , preaching regularly in Rochester Cathedral and laying the foundations for what became the Quaker community there . |
| 29 | Sexuality thus had an extremely complex and vital symbolic role in what became the dominant ideology in the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Courtney 's canoeists with ten Folbots ( see diagram p. 25 ) were the first of what became the Special Boat Section , formed after their leader had given a practical demonstration of the canoe 's military potential , a potential doubted by even the adventurous characters in Combined Operations headquarters until Courtney paddled out one summer night in 1940 to a carrier ship moored in the Clyde . |