Example sentences of "which [vb past] become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only was he engaged in a war , but , as soon became clear , it was a war which was going badly and which threatened to become unpopular in both France and Britain . |
| 2 | were traditional watermills and windmills which had become redundant with the introduction of steam , and later electrical power . |
| 3 | Resolutely opposed by two of Gardiner 's less-enlightened predecessors as Lord Chancellor , Simonds and Dilhorne , the Law Commission under its first chairman , Sir Leslie Scarman , soon earned acceptance as a valuable strengthening of the hitherto piecemeal procedures for revising laws which had become outdated or unsatisfactory in practice . |
| 4 | The ebbs and flows of population movement could not be matched by changes in a local government structure which had become fixed in the pattern established in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | It was strongly supported in the 1950s by the companies who purchased the cotton grown as a cash crop in the savannah , because it appeared to be the most effective way to reverse the declining fertility and falling yields which had become apparent by that time . |
| 6 | However , under SP7/89 , a parent company can surrender ACT that was previously set off against its mainstream tax liability in an assessment which had become final . |
| 7 | Edward Heath 's attempts to commit the party to something more dynamic , outward-looking and enterprise-based , after the meeting at Selsdon Park in 1970 , collapsed in the face of a corporate culture which had become used to having things its own way under a succession of both Conservative and Labour governments . |
| 8 | To the Inquiry Inspector , Michael Barnes , this point-blank refusal to discuss an issue which had become central to the nuclear debate was like a red rag to a bull . |
| 9 | At school they had once heard of some animal which had become extinct because of its huge flat feet . |
| 10 | By the third period , there was a new fashion for urn and willow motifs , which had become commemorative symbols on graves marking the achievements of the individual in life . |
| 11 | The furniture had all been renewed , upholstered for preference in red velvet , and in all the state rooms the great ceilings , which had become grimy through neglect , had been regilded and repainted . |
| 12 | After 1640 , these religious and cultural conflicts , which had become endemic within some local communities , were subsumed within the wider struggle of the English civil war . |
| 13 | However , Lord Justice Lloyd , presiding over the latest appeal hearing at the Central Criminal Court in London , said that in the light of fresh evidence , which had become available since the previous hearing , their appeals would be allowed . |
| 14 | Some were active against strains of organisms which had become resistant to older antibiotics . |
| 15 | One of Linskog 's patients had a lymphatic tumour which had become resistant to radiotherapy ; situated in the jaw , it was making eating and breathing difficult . |
| 16 | Georgia , the only other former Soviet republic ( bar the Baltic states , which had become independent in September — see pp. 38419-20 ) , sent observers , but internal power struggles ( including the attempt to depose the Georgian President , Zviad Gamsakhurdia ) , prevented Georgia 's participation . |
| 17 | Thomas Rowlandson capped the matter — which had become public knowledge — in his final Boswell cartoon , called ‘ Revising the Second Edition ’ , which shows a terrified Boswell being grabbed by the throat ; Lord Macdonald is pointing with his stick to the offending pages of the first edition and Boswell is complying in terror . |
| 18 | Quickly stripping off her gown , which had become soaked again , she sat down by the fire and began to comb through her wet , tangled hair with her fingers , holding the strands to the blaze to dry . |
| 19 | He wanted to examine the Collector 's right eye which had become red and rather swollen . |
| 20 | It seems that it was a hasty decision to take away the armoured car , which had become inseparable from the city 's history . |
| 21 | The decree was intended to wipe out the illegal cash holdings of black-marketeers , and to drain from the economy up to 20 per cent of the money supply , which had become bloated by the printing of new money to cover budget deficits in recent years . |
| 22 | Around Leeds in 1787 an eight-hour day was the norm , with no sign yet of the twelve- hour one which had become common by 1842 . |
| 23 | Mum returned to the mirror and replaced strands into the bun which had become dishevelled during the twirling . |
| 24 | Unlike the fully suspended sentence which had become popular , in some ways too popular with the initial enthusiasm of the courts having to be reined in by the Court of Appeal , the partly suspended sentence never caught on . |
| 25 | The song , which had become popular at the last election , went something like this : |
| 26 | In a thinly disguised attack on the Prime Minister and her former adviser Professor Sir Alan Walters , Sir Leon said the countries which had become full members of the exchange rate mechanism had enjoyed lower interest rates and lower inflation . |
| 27 | Unlike tea estates , coconut plantations were generally owned by Sri Lankans , especially by the urban élite which had become wealthy by taking advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities . |
| 28 | Here , as with the vernacular , the Council for the sake of strengthening the ‘ active participation ’ which it correctly laid down as a vital principle of liturgy , overthrew a deformation which had become customary in the Middle Ages and against which the Reformation had vigorously protested . |
| 29 | Wyllie 's limitation as a coach , which had become obvious in 1988 , were glossed over while he and his team were winning . |