Example sentences of "it became the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The powers of the Federal government inevitably increased as it became the chief customer for the war materials poured out by industry . |
| 2 | In the Zurvanite heresy it became the supreme deity . |
| 3 | Nineteenth-century legislation swept away the fictions upon which trover was based and it became the modern action for conversion , though no change was made in the substance of the law . |
| 4 | The fortress commanded a view up the narrow valley of the Yucay River , as it wound past the ancient Inca town tucked in the crux of the mountains , before it became the turbulent Urubamba . |
| 5 | Then it became the only way to work : shut mother out , shut out her demands , her outrages , concentrate , work . |
| 6 | In 1990 it became the first company to offer on-line access to data from Companies House on all limited companies operating in the UK . |
| 7 | Under the reforms of Josef II , when the Jesuit Order was abolished , the Clementinum became a seminary under the supervision of the archbishop of Prague , and in 1799 it became the first Academy of Fine Arts . |
| 8 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 9 | In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin . |
| 10 | Colworth was an Elizabethan house in origin , altered in the 1760s and again about 1810 : it became the principal residence of Magniac , who again extended the house , which he acquired outright in 1854 . |
| 11 | It became the Great Depression as successive waves of bank failures rolled over America 's monetary system . |
| 12 | Stravinsky had started composing Les Noces before 1913 and often played it toDiaghilev , gradually simplifying his ideas until it became the present cantata for voices , four pianos and percussion . |
| 13 | At 20 he went to the New Musical Express , and edited it through the 1970s , when it became the bestselling rock mag in Britain , with a rich crop of young writers such as Julie Burchill , Tony Parsons , Danny Baker , Paul Morley and Charles Shaar Murray . |
| 14 | No longer a mixture of local dialects , Standard English " had emerged " , and the east Midland dialect " had now become " the King " s English ; finally , " through the works of Chaucer it became the literary language of the country " . |
| 15 | Previously active in the southern department of Cauca , it became the fourth guerrilla group to give up the armed struggle following the example of the M-19 [ see p. 37311 ] , the People 's Liberation Army ( EPL ) and the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) [ see p. 38094 ] , each of which had returned to mainstream politics . |
| 16 | It became the local community creative scene encompassing not only music , but mime , drama , poetry reading and in fact , an outlet for local cottage industry . |
| 17 | Developed by Adobe Systems and launched onto an unsuspecting world in 1984 by Apple with its LaserWriter printer it became the underlying reason that desktop publishing succeeded . |
| 18 | In the case which we have just been discussing , that of the common , oppressed people , it is a question of the superego being degraded by alcoholic intoxication to the point where it and the ego can merge ( or , at least where it no longer chastizes the ego ) ; but in the case of the Inca himself we saw that it was a case of a pre-eminent individual whose ego was exalted to the point where it became the ideal ego of the entire civilization . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the Rokkaku cult spread from the USA and UK into Australia , Tasmania , New Zealand , Italy , Belgium and Germany , such that it became the ideal barrier-breaker that brought flyers together . |
| 20 | It became the last stop for taking on provisions for the large convoys of merchant and naval ships crossing the Atlantic . |
| 21 | It became the common currency of speeches on the empire to advocate the extension of the principle of self-government to all within it , even unto the lowliest . |
| 22 | It became the common view that any British retailer attempting to expand abroad signalled a deterioration in its fortunes , with the consequent lack of interest from the City . |
| 23 | Her mind had been occupied with things like the freezing point of soda water or the melting point of cheese ; later on it became the non-revolutionary redistribution of the means of production and the alternate vote . |
| 24 | G&G spent a good part of a decade — the Seventies — getting drunk , the memory of which still prompts a wistful smile from Gilbert , and they were habitués of the Blitz even before it became the early-Eighties club . |
| 25 | During the peak ( or nadir ) of the so-called ‘ Dark Ages ’ , it became the true centre of learning for the whole of Europe . |
| 26 | It became the National Arboretum for Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | Ten years later , it became the National Institute of Arthritis , Diabetes , Digestive and Kidney Diseases . |
| 28 | Versions of the recently introduced song God Save Great George Our King were now heard on all sides ; a little later the text was finalised and it became the national anthem . |
| 29 | Its dominance was not confined to the academic world ; indeed , it became the intellectual creed of US foreign policy in the late 1940s and 1950s . |
| 30 | Suddenly , the cafe stopped being the place where I worked and once again it became the bizarre oasis that I 'd happened upon all those months earlier . |