Example sentences of "what [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifteen hundred men worked at one time in what became the largest copper mine in Europe — a vast open-cast quarry hewn out of the hilltop . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After his release he lived in Kent , preaching regularly in Rochester Cathedral and laying the foundations for what became the Quaker community there . |
| 6 | The dialogue form of what became the Two chief world systems ( 1632 ) was a brilliant response to these restrictions , Galileo probably calculating that it would protect him from censure , even if his impartial discussion pointed to far from impartial conclusions . |
| 7 | Market economics clearly makes a number of effective criticisms of demand management , and its emphasis on the limited competence of government to promote economic growth provides at least a valuable corrective to what became the orthodox political economy of the post-war period . |
| 8 | Sexuality thus had an extremely complex and vital symbolic role in what became the dominant ideology in the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Only archaeological traces survive of their original civilization , which emerged in what became the unique Aksumite kingdom that lasted until the end of the tenth century AD . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In what became the biggest spending spree the club with the Scrooge image has ever embarked on , Nicholas returned home to Parkhead along with his former Arsenal teammate Martin Hayes and another old Celtic Boys ' Club stalwart , the ex-Hibernian midfield player John Collins . |
| 12 | In 1909 Cumming was appointed head of what became the foreign section of the Secret Service Bureau ( the forerunner of the Secret Intelligence Service , better known as SIS or MI6 ) . |
| 13 | The only route to more empirically grounded theories , according to what became the Lazarsfeldian programme of social research , was to develop suitably confirmed empirical generalisations across a range of studies and problem areas , and this would require the effective translation of concepts into empirical indicators ; translate , that is , concepts into the publicly observable . |
| 14 | The house was the underground headquarters of what became the military wing of the ANC , Umkhonto we Sizwe , Spear of the Nation . |
| 15 | Not surprisingly the impetus for what became the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches ( normally called the National Free Church Council ) came from a Congregationalist , J. Guinness Rogers . |
| 16 | What cemented the temporary alliance between feminists , like Josephine Butler , and moral repressionists , such as Alfred Dyer , was a rejection of the double standard that lay behind the speeches and pressure of most of their parliamentary opponents . |
| 17 | What made the pre-1960 period distinctive , however , was the almost complete reliance on this one objective . |
| 18 | But what made the round most memorable was my caddie . |
| 19 | What made the annual gathering even worse was we always had to listen to her recite the twenty-third psalm , standing up there on the stage in her white dress , white socks , black shoes . |
| 20 | What made the whole case so remarkable was his confession to five other murders , his bizarre method of removing the evidence — by dissolving the bodies in acid — and his claims that he indulged in vampirism . |
| 21 | I always wondered what made the big difference between the last rates bill for Brent and the present arrangements ; now I understand that it was the £140 reduction . |
| 22 | Ahmed : At the meeting , what made the most impact was the situation in which we found ourselves . |
| 23 | From here you can see the summit of lofty Braeriach to the south-west , iced with a mantle of snow for the majority of the year , and you start to understand what made the old men in shirt sleeves point . |
| 24 | We set out to try to find evidence of those links in order to understand what made the spontaneous collaboration possible . |
| 25 | But the point is it does n't matter who was right , and even less who would have been right ; all that matters is what people felt , because that 's what produced the new ethos of the age ; consensus had led to impasse , care to sterility , so : deliver a shock to the system , take the sort of radical risk with the country that you have to take with a business at least once in its history if it 's to succeed ; go for growth , take the monetarist shilling . ’ |
| 26 | That frank acknowledgement of the new freedom between the sexes , which Modigliani and the women he loved enjoyed , was what offended the respectable Parisians . |
| 27 | Only by looking at what happened can one begin to form a judgement , though , as will be seen , there are conflicting views as to what caused the final catastrophe , while the principal actor in the events has even had doubts cast upon the authenticity of his claims to the leading role . |
| 28 | Without revealing what caused the original problem , they confiscated anything remotely kinky they could lay their hands on ( old Fifties fetish comics , a collection of fetish art by German artist Tom , Skin 2 videos and catalogues , piercing magazines ) . |
| 29 | Our modern ideas of what caused the Big Bang seem almost mystical . |
| 30 | We do n't , we do n't know , we knew what caused the last ones , but do n't know what cause this one at all . |