Example sentences of "had become [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggested to Wilson that there had to be a short cooling-off period , after which Max Aitken would be a suitable person to go to Rhodesia as an unofficial ambassador , since in the war he had flown with Smith in the RAF and they had become good friends . |
| 2 | After the fall of France he had become chief signals officer , Aldershot Command . |
| 3 | By this time part of the site had become private property , so that it was not possible to consider clearing the whole length of the Plane , nor to reveal the lower basin into which the Plane descends . |
| 4 | When the Crown lands had become private property , they would , in the course of a few years , become well improved and well cultivated . ’ |
| 5 | And because he had a very happy turn of phrase , Ron , he said that the states had become federal aid junkies . |
| 6 | Our ‘ easy ’ snow slopes had somehow steepened and , although seldom reaching 50 degrees , had become bare ice . |
| 7 | How could I tell Fatima with her large , trusting brown eyes that her war had become stale news and I had to move on ? |
| 8 | It was not until the 1960s that battle-lines began to be drawn , with Labour in favour of comprehensivization and the Conservatives against ; and even then the Conservatives in central government were not hard-line opponents of this policy in the way that , by the end of the decade , Labour had become hard-line advocates . |
| 9 | Ever since Victor had saved his life on the deadly ravine-wire crossing they had become firm friends . |
| 10 | On the other hand , we had learnt to recognise many of the chimps as individuals , and felt they had become firm friends . |
| 11 | The two girls had become firm friends ; they seemed to have so much in common , apart from their age . |
| 12 | The girls ' parents had held her in high regard and they had become firm friends . |
| 13 | The experience had become pure music , each note torturous yet unbearably sweet . |
| 14 | At last the ordeal ceased — so abruptly that Lexandro imagined that his body had evaporated , vanished , and that he had become pure spirit . |
| 15 | He had first reported to Donleavy on the use of counterfeit money for DEA stings during the 1987 season , after Dany Habib had produced a sample from his desk drawer , but it was soon clear from what he observed at Eurame that this , too , had become standard operating procedure in his absence . |
| 16 | By taking a peerage he ruined the political career of his elder son , who had become Unionist MP for Plymouth in 1910 and was elevated to the Lords in succession to his father in 1919 , but also created the opportunity for his daughter-in-law , Nancy ( later Viscountess Astor , q.v. ) to win her husband 's seat at a by-election , and thus become the first woman to sit in the House of Commons . |
| 17 | Even now , when the boys responsible had become young men and gone off to make their ways in the world . |
| 18 | Lord Ashfield remained Chairman and Frank Pick , who had become Managing Director of the Group in March 1928 , became Deputy Chairman . |
| 19 | Both Thurmaston and Countesthorpe had become industrial villages in the sense that the majority of the population were employed at a single craft . |
| 20 | The Marquess of Salisbury had become Prime Minister in 1895 , and in 1889 his government introduced death duties which were to lead to the gradual breaking up of the wealthy estates , which previously had passed from father to son — or some other relative — without any loss . |
| 21 | Before their first meeting , Nkrumah called upon Harold Macmillan , who had become prime Minister five months earlier . |
| 22 | Xenofon Zolotas , who had become Prime Minister of an all-party government after an inconclusive general election on Nov. 5 , 1989 [ see pp. 37050-51 ] , announced on Jan. 26 the calling of a further general election . |
| 23 | It was the third occasion on which Wingti had become Prime Minister . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The trouble was that Baldwin did it by the methods he had forsworn and that his words and his style of appeal had become alienated front his actions . |
| 26 | By now he had become Principal Schools Commissioner for the Diocese , a post he continued to hold until August 1986 when he became Parish Priest at Yeadon . |
| 27 | It was important for the future of the English republic that Frost was succeeded not by his eldest son , who had become assistant secretary and treasurer for the council 's contingencies , but by the candidate of Oliver St John and Oliver Cromwell , John Thurloe [ qq.v . ] . |
| 28 | The last two had become prominent spokesmen for the families during the ten days since the removal of the children . |
| 29 | The wildness and stubborn valour in her had become real strength and it surprised him . |
| 30 | Belle Maman was one of the godmothers ( she and the American Mrs Hawksworth had become great friends ) and Alice was invited also to the ceremony and the family party afterwards . |