Example sentences of "and become the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a hero of the old style , whose life and deeds left their mark on the tide of human history and became the inspiration of a whole nation . |
| 2 | The murder helped prove a new science and became the plot in a detective novel . |
| 3 | She said she had never realised what went on before as she went round and inhabited each seat and became the person . |
| 4 | At this time , the unique double-staircase Dreadnought cars came into service and became the mainstay of the Promenade route until the Thirties . |
| 5 | It had originally been proposed by James Madison in 1789 as one of a package of 12 measures , 10 of which were quickly approved and became the Bill of Rights . |
| 6 | Ganymede was beloved by ZEUS , who assumed the guise of an eagle so as to spirit him up to Olympus ; there he was given immortality and became the gods ' cup-bearer , responsible for giving them their daily draught of the Elixir of Life . |
| 7 | The mannered delivery of West End comedies sounded ridiculous at the kitchen sink , and became the butt of the booming satire industry . |
| 8 | The squid axon certainly conformed to that belief , and became the preparation in which details of the ion movements and changes in electrical activity which occur during nerve conduction and the action potential could be explored . |
| 9 | One of the National Schools — which were aided , in the latter part of the nineteenth century , by voluntary societies and the Church , with assistance from Parliament — was established at Strand-on-the-Green , off Back Lane , in 1874 , and became the Strand-on-the-Green School . |
| 10 | Already at the end of the 18C the palace was in the hands of the military and became the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . |
| 11 | The assassination by a Korean of the resident general , Itó Hirobumi , during a visit to Manchuria in 1909 , marked the end of all attempts at conciliation and became the excuse for annexation . |
| 12 | He stole the show and became the epitome of the American anti-hero , the spit-in-your-eye champion of counter-culture whose irreverence captivated and finally liberated his audiences from the time warp in which they had been trapped since Montgomery Clift , Marlon Brando and James Dean began it in a rather less volatile manner in the early Fifties . |
| 13 | When the Market was rebuilt by George Burt in 1875 , the fish left London and became the vane surmounting his new Purbeck House . |
| 14 | Gunner Howerd , the man who began in camp concerts and became the king of camp . |
| 15 | He was also a sun god as Harakhty , Horus of the Horizon , and as Horus of Behdet , and was the son of Osiris and Isis as Horus , as Monthu was local to Thebes and became the king 's god of warfare in the New Kingdom , when Thebes was the capital . |
| 16 | The Firefly AS.6 was designed specifically for anti-submarine warfare , and became the FAA main type in that category until the Fairey Gannet arrived in 1955 . |
| 17 | The railcoaches however , went from strength to strength and became the work-horses of the Blackpool system . |
| 18 | One of these , Jimmie , was used by him for a harmless demonstration of the electrocardiogram at the Royal Society and became the subject of a famous parliamentary reply to a question from the anti-vivisection lobby ( Hansard , 8 July 1909 ) . |
| 19 | Without being aware of it she sighed , and became the subject of Niall 's intense scrutiny . |
| 20 | They wrote out a cheque for the place there and then and became the owners of their own pub . |
| 21 | A native of Cambridgeshire , she was a nurse during both world wars and became the matron of the Cambridge Nursing Home before retiring to the Prestatyn area . |
| 22 | It was on the site of two farms and became the London Area Headquarters of the Royal Flying Corps . |
| 23 | Under the National Assistance Act 1948 , a National Assistance Board and national assistance tribunals replaced the Unemployment Assistance Board and the unemployment appeal tribunals , and became the parents of supplementary benefits appeal tribunals . |
| 24 | He had worked on the optical specificity of certain enzymes ( one may remember that problems of optical activity first drew Pasteur from chemical to biological problems ) but was also devoted to music and became the music critic of a Berlin evening paper . |
| 25 | Later the press bureau of the foreign ministry , so small before the war , was greatly enlarged and became the Nachrichtenabteilung . |
| 26 | Military education ceased to be a sort of " royal secret " and became the preserve of the War Ministry . |
| 27 | Dorking County Grammar , a mixed provincial grammar school of around 600 pupils , moved with the times and became the Ashcombe School , a mixed comprehensive of 1,000 pupils . |
| 28 | Went through Section Head of various departments and became the A M S there or M P S as it was at the time . |
| 29 | Nguyen Seth 's past faded , and became the memory of a memory . |
| 30 | ( She was to marry on 3rd February 1819 Mark Mayson of Keswick , and became the mother of W. H. Mayson of Manchester ) . |