Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] became [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Edna had left school , she more or less became a fixture in the household and there was no doubt that Celia was a much happier and more tractable baby under her young but competent handling . |
| 2 | In ancient times this magnificent monument must have been much admired and it is hardly surprising that Imhotep was remembered as a great man and eventually became a god . |
| 3 | He began by building up the scout movement in the NorthEast and eventually became a scout commissioner . |
| 4 | he never took much part in college life and eventually became an object of derision among medical students , who called him ‘ Mummy Jones ’ . |
| 5 | After Zarathustra 's death his religion was taken up by the old priestly class known as the Magi and eventually became the faith of the Achaemenid dynasty . |
| 6 | The palace was never finished and eventually became the property of the powerful Schwarzenberg family who created a beautiful formal garden on the site . |
| 7 | This form developed bipedalism and other adaptations to the newly opening arid savannah landscape and eventually became the ancestor of man . |
| 8 | After Martin 's death his son Jean continued to reside at the rue de Harlay , and presumably became the master maker of the workshop . |
| 9 | The leather baggage and glass cosmetic pots of the day were too heavy to take on the plane but she managed to find lighter substitutes and so became a pioneer of lightweight luggage , as well as a pioneer female passenger . |
| 10 | But last year it sold seven million bibles translated into 119 languages to 90 countries and so became the world 's largest exporter of bibles . |
| 11 | Yet Louth-born Wilkinson was a midfield player as a schoolboy and only became a forward by accident . |
| 12 | But then again , the Golden Höfner was the flagship of the company 's electric hollow-bodied range between ‘ 59 and ‘ 62 and naturally became a platform for showing just what could be done . |
| 13 | Much was seized for food by a starving population , and much became the casualty of unexploded mines and bombs . |
| 14 | One week previously an independent member of the Országgyüles , Eva Balla , had joined the party and thus became the party 's first representative in parliament . |
| 15 | The opening thrust of ‘ The Headmaster Ritual ’ brought immediate impact and soon became a favourite with all who had bad experiences at school ( which is everyone ) . |
| 16 | Under William and his son — and successor — Joseph Dalton Hooker ( 1817–1911 ) , Kew began to acquire facilities for studying exotic plants and soon became a centre of international importance . |
| 17 | In 1848 he became MRCS ( and soon became a fellow ‘ by examination ’ ) and in the following year was awarded the college 's triennial prize for an essay on the nerves of the eye . |
| 18 | Thomas Cook began as a tour operator organizing and selling his own tours and soon became an agent as well , selling all kinds of travel on behalf of other suppliers , particularly the railway companies . |
| 19 | In 1898 the twenty-nine-year-old Alice met and soon became the mistress of the fifty-six-year-old Albert Edward , Prince of Wales . |
| 20 | Northampton began life as a fortified position in the early tenth century — it is first recorded as a name in the year 917 — and soon became the shire town . |
| 21 | Greece applied for membership in 1975 and finally became a Member State on 1 January 1981 . |
| 22 | He was one of the first eminent European scientists to make a career in the USA , and rapidly became a lion : his lectures and books were popular , and he built up a school and museum at Harvard . |
| 23 | Even in church music its purest type reached ultimate perfection in the work of Palestrina and Victoria , and thereafter became the idiom of epigones . |
| 24 | Intrigued , she made a series of forays on horseback into the trackless tribal areas of northern Albania , and quickly became the champion of the mountaineers , whose lands were coveted by neighbouring nations . |
| 25 | Arthur Ramsey gave Michael a book by a scientist ( Romanes ) who was once an atheist and later became a believer . |
| 26 | The Lombard king was exiled to Neustria , and later became a monk in the Abbey of Corbey where he died in his old age . |
| 27 | She became chairman of the orchestra and later became a member and chairman of the Keswick Music Society . |
| 28 | And one of the most experienced U-boat commanders , Adalbert Schnee , who had been on sixteen patrols and later became a member of Dönitz 's staff , gave evidence that it was contrary to orders to kill survivors and that there could be no excuse for what Eck had done . |
| 29 | He entered Chichester Theological College and later became a curate in Lincolnshire . |
| 30 | He had been Head of Geography from 1919 until his retirement in 1953 , and later became a Governor , representing the staff of the School . |