Example sentences of "[adv] became [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	Although he deliberately affected a republican stance , in 27 BC Octavian effectively became emperor of Rome , taking the name Augustus .
2	The couple , who live locally , acquired and restored the 20-seater coach as a family keepsake , it was actually 's father who founded the Guy Motor Company which eventually became part of Leyland .
3	Anselm , St ( 1033–1109 ) Born the son of a Lombard landowner , Anselm eventually became Archbishop of Canterbury in England .
4	Two of the boys from amongst these pioneers went on to study Mathematics at Cambridge , with great success , to Daniels ' pride : J. G. Adshead of Caius College , who eventually became Professor of Mathematics at Dalhousie University , Nova Scotia , and W. L. Edge of Trinity College , who held a similar post in the University of Edinburgh .
5	It could have been written by its bearer , given by Florence as Abbot Lyfing of Tavistock , who eventually became bishop of Worcester , for this would further explain how Florence had a copy .
6	In 1924 Mussolini survived a personal crisis when he was accused of colluding in the murder of Giacomo Matteotti , an opposition leader , and finally became head of state in 1925 when the Fascists banned all other parties .
7	The Representation of the People Act thus became law in February 1918 , ushering in an era of near democracy , increasing the electorate from the 7.7 million of 1910 to 21.4 million in 1918 , over three-quarters of whom had never voted before .
8	He also became recorder of York , an appointment made on the king 's recommendation but probably owing more to Gloucester .
9	He also became recorder of York , an appointment made on the king 's recommendation but probably owing more to Gloucester .
10	In 1883 he also became vicar of Crosthwaite and rural dean of Keswick , where , with the help of his artistically talented wife , he founded the Keswick School of Industrial Arts .
11	Later , he also became Minister of Defence of the republic ( renamed Russian Federation in January 1992 ) .
12	The MMM leader , Prem Nababsingh , replaced the dismissed Sir Satcam Boolell as Deputy Prime Minister and also became Minister of Health ; the other MMM appointees were : Jean-Claude de l'Estrac — Foreign Affairs ( briefly held by Agriculture Minister Madun Dulloo — ibid . ) ;
13	In 1912 he was appointed London director of the new Johannesburg Art Gallery and also became valuer of pictures and drawings for the Board of the Inland Revenue ( 1912–14 ) .
14	Finally he also became Overlord of Wales , in 831 , before his death in 839 , probably aged about sixty years .
15	Introduced in 1904 , this mark denotes purity and quality , which is why it later became part of Lurpak 's name .
16	Warren began work at Sellafield on the day the UKAEA was formed in 1954 — originally in the R & D branch which later became part of BNFL .
17	In 1850 , as a newly appointed house surgeon to St George 's Hospital ( where he later became lecturer in anatomy ) he presented a paper to the Royal Society ‘ On the development of the optic and auditory nerves ’ .
18	The view expressed in 1829 by the Rev. Richard Whately ( 1787–1863 ) , who later became Archbishop of Dublin , had become orthodoxy .
19	erm I think two people have had tremendous problems and again must have been going up and down St Aldate 's , because they were very busy officials , was Edward Hyde , who later became Earl of Clarendon and wrote his story of the war , again of course from the Royalist point of view , and his great friend , Lord Falkland , who was Secretary of State for the King , and became so upset and worried by the rash policies of the Queen 's party and the general atmosphere of intrigue , and by the war itself , that he does seem to have more or less committed suicide at the battle of Newbury , by riding ahead of his troops into the enemy .
20	His guardian uncles intended him for an academic career , and his brother Christopher , presumably of similar intelligence and attainment , later became Master of Trinity .
21	He later became President of Bothwell Castle and Vice President of the Scottish Cricket Union .
22	The production of Le nozze di Figaro which Gründgens did earlier with Klemperer in 1931 was said to be politically very radical , yet Gründgens later became Intendant of Berlin 's Staatliches Schauspielhaus , with Goering 's support .
23	In the case of Molla Sayyid Muhammad al-Nakib ( Yavuz Celebi ) , on the other hand , Ata'i merely notes that he started off his career as a kasabat kadi , then turned to the medrese system in which he was given a 40-akce medrese and subsequently worked his way up to the Suleymaniye Darulhadis — probably by this time the premier medrese in the empire to which he was appointed in 1012/1604 : he later became kadi of Eyup and then nakibulesraf .
24	, Edmund ( c. 1670–1738 ) , scientific instrument-maker , was born c .1670 in Tarrant Gunville , the son of Edward Culpeper , formerly a servitor at Merton College , Oxford , who took his BA from Merton in 1858 , and later became rector of Tarrant Gunville in Dorset .
25	As well as rehearsing the Girls Jessie Wharton now became companion to Mrs Tiller .
26	Well , Eleanor divorced King Louis , who preferred religion to women anyway , and married Henry , who then became Duke of Aquitaine through her .
27	He then became registrar at Leeds General Infirmary , before taking up a fellowship at Harvard Medical School , where he did research into organ transplants .
28	The Manager , Mr. Ratcliffe Hulme , resigned and was replaced in July , by A. V. Mason from Devonport , who became Manager and Engineer of the S.M.E.T. C. W. Durnford , the S.M.E.T. Engineer then became Manager at Devonport .
29	Hopper thought he was another Dean , and then became outcast from Hollywood within three years because he acquired a reputation for being a mean-like perfectionist .
30	He then became assistant to George Hughes , chief of the testing department , whom he later succeeded .

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