Example sentences of "became [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 On his death ten years later , he was succeeded as leader of the community by one of his companions , Abu Bakr , who later became seen as the first of a line of caliphs ( khulafa in Arabic ) .
2 What became known as the First Series was published by Macrone in two volumes in Feb. 1836 with 16 illustrations by Cruikshank .
3 In his lifetime an obscure figure ( he was ignored by contemporary obituarists ) , he became known in the twentieth century through the publication of his Diaries , journals of horseback tours through England and Wales .
4 It was this message which went out in the eighteenth century , and became enshrined in the First Amendment to the American Constitution .
5 This predicted 91% of fetuses who became distressed in the first stage of labour , and combination with ultrasonographic estimation of the volume of amniotic fluid improved prediction to 100% with only a slight fall in specificity .
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