Example sentences of "thus became [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The part of the barn sited on top of these areas thus became a loft raised above the threshing floor . |
| 2 | Childhood thus became a condition to be explored and valued for its own sake , much as the French ‘ philosophes ’ had formerly thought to examine and extol ‘ natural man ’ in his savage state . |
| 3 | He thus became a gutter urchin who haunted the London waterfront . |
| 4 | Management training thus became a particular focus of attention . |
| 5 | The black community thus became a ‘ donor ’ group for white society . |
| 6 | He thus became a marked man . |
| 7 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 8 | The soldier , of whatever rank , thus became a public servant whose task it was , under the command of the king , to defend the community 's interests through war . |
| 9 | The resulting division of the ‘ home ’ and ‘ away ’ ends thus became an established feature of the game . |
| 10 | Nigeria thus became an administered rather than a political society , just as it had been under colonialism . |
| 11 | The despatch of American reinforcements to the Middle East thus became an even lower priority . |
| 12 | He thus became the key figure in implementing the changes in the Government legal service arising out of the Compton Report . |
| 13 | At the peak of this hierarchy , Elizabeth I set a personal commander in each county , who was to have charge of the local militia ; the lord lieutenant thus became the monarch 's personal representative . |
| 14 | Although warned by referee John Street of the consequences of a further ‘ miss ’ after two failures , Davis still could not hit either of the two balls and thus became the most notable victim of the controversial rule . |
| 15 | After the Second World War — during which time Fred served as a Special in the Metropolitan Police and later in the Royal Artillery — he put in another 111 League appearances and thus became the only Palace player to make a century of appearances on each side of the war . |
| 16 | It thus became the eukaryotic cell . |
| 17 | Mains thus became the first ( and I am afraid , only ) rugby man who ever considered I knew anything about the game . |
| 18 | They thus became the outstanding exponents of what has sometimes been called , with a variety of overtones , ‘ Neo-orthodoxy ’ ; and in the widening gulf between them and the other two there emerges very clearly what one recent writer has aptly described as ‘ the divided mind of modern theology ’ . |
| 19 | The ‘ elect ’ are saved from this just punishment because of a new ‘ covenant of grace ’ established in Jesus Christ : he fulfilled the terms of the covenant of works , bore the penalty for Adam 's breaking of it , and thus became the means of salvation for the elect . |
| 20 | The British Navy thus became the dominant force between northern Britain and Norway , so poised as to frustrate any German sortie into the North Sea . |
| 21 | The hostility which this aroused , as well as his role as royal guardian of London , resulted in his death at the hands of a furious mob and he thus became the first bishop since Becket to be murdered . |
| 22 | This is not the place to outline these in detail but , to put it simply , in the late 1970s the record industry faced a ‘ crisis ’ ( a stagnation in record sales after twenty years of expansion ) brought on by two simultaneous developments : on the one hand , an economic recession which hit particularly hard the most important sector of the record buying market , working-class youth ; on the other hand , technological developments in the leisure industry which meant either new sorts of competition for people 's leisure resources ( home computers and video recorders become as significant in young people 's lives as record players , for instance ) or disrupted record companies ' profit-making routines ( home taping thus became the industry 's chief bogey ) . |
| 23 | Gamlin thus became the BDDA 's first discretionary Vice-president . |
| 24 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Lithuania thus became the third Soviet republic to conclude an economic agreement with Bulgaria , following Russia and Byelarus [ see p. 38350 ] . |
| 27 | Argentina thus became the fifth country to reach such an agreement as part of the Brady Plan , a mechanism devised by the US Treasury Secretary Nicolas Brady in March 1989 to reduce the debt burdens of developing countries [ see pp. 36541-42 ] . |
| 28 | Boothroyd thus became the first woman Speaker . |
| 29 | Latvia thus became the second ex-Soviet republic ( following Estonia ) to replace the rouble with its own currency . |
| 30 | After Ireland and Luxembourg , Greece thus became the third member country to approve the treaty . |