Example sentences of "became the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ptah was an important god from the First Dynasty , when Memphis became the administrative capital of Egypt . |
| 2 | In securing huge government land grants as an inducement to build , the railways became the prime engine of migration , transporting the migrants , acting as land agents , supplying their machinery , building materials , and seed , and later shipping ( a word which developed land-bound connotations ) their produce . |
| 3 | Remaisnil became the staged version of her perfected life , the culmination of the myth which was such a potent force for customer and company alike and without which the art could not flourish . |
| 4 | It was Matilda , the only offspring of this marriage , who in 1181–2 became the unwitting cause of what the chronicler of the Limousin , Geoffrey de Vigeois , called " a great calamity for our country " . |
| 5 | The plain or flounced shroud with cap or bonnet became the standard mode of dress for the tomb , with the optional extras of mittens , stockings and , occasionally , slippers . |
| 6 | Rusche and Kirchheimer themselves admit ( 1939 : 102 ) that imprisonment became the standard method of punishment at a time when the demand for prison labour had fallen as a result of technological and other developments . |
| 7 | Because of the division of labour , work soon became the perpetual repetition of a simple task , or the minding of a machine ; such work often had to be done for fourteen hours a day , six days a week , and there were no special provisions for the women and very young children who were considered especially suitable for work in the textile industries . |
| 8 | Inadequacies were glossed over and the focus of attention became the necessary defence of the revolutionary Soviet state , the guardian protector of peace , freedom and equality , currently threatened by a barbaric and expansionist fascist state . |
| 9 | Capitalist economic relations were established in the countryside through the ‘ enclosures ’ , where land became the private property of landowners and the rural work-force was stripped of the land-use rights that gave them an independent source of subsistence . |
| 10 | Imaged in such terms , the sodomite indeed became the supreme instance of the demonized other . |
| 11 | Henry VIII became the supreme head of the Church of England and , between 1530 and 1539 , the Roman Catholic monastic foundations in the land were dissolved , the Crown claiming the extensive lands which brought considerable revenue to the King . |
| 12 | THIS PIONEERING panel game began in '51 and fast became the tabloid-fodder equivalent of EastEnders in the '80s . |
| 13 | The consistently revolutionary wing of Social Democracy , the Bolsheviks , became the authentic vanguard of the proletariat . |
| 14 | For part of the Civil War Kharkov rather than Kiev became the temporary capital of the Ukraine , and a Bolshevik military stronghold . |
| 15 | The open air theme , eventually to become epitomized by visions of Woodstock and the Rolling Stones performing live in Hyde Park , was itself a throwback from Kerouac 's On the Road : because the road became the central symbol of his disciples ' lives — hitting it in search of new horizons when the local scene became dull . |
| 16 | Britain 's voluntary , though gradual , conversion of the colonial Empire into the British Commonwealth of Nations would help her recovery as a great power : her military commitments to provide overseas garrisons should diminish , and her influence was expected to be enhanced as she became the central pivot of an association of free and independent states girdling the globe . |
| 17 | Much of it has been in the nature of self-examination : not least because the achievement of a high rate of economic growth became the central aim of political endeavour . |
| 18 | Accordingly , manpower budgeting became the central task of wartime planning . |
| 19 | It was this alleged inability to set the record straight which increasingly became the central focus of Republican attacks on the degree to which Clinton 's character was suitable for the highest office in the country . |
| 20 | Henry Sampson was a popular character and the Adelphi Hotel became the cricketing centre of the town . |
| 21 | They were imitated by their elders and again , the novel behaviour of the few became the accepted behaviour of the group . |
| 22 | Although the Panopticon was never built exactly as he designed it ( a modified version was constructed at Millbank on the Thames and opened , with extremely poor results , in 1917 ) , imprisonment rapidly became the pre-eminent method of punishment . |
| 23 | The partnership would capitalise Newco sufficiently to meet the redemption obligations on the debentures and , if Newco became the beneficial owner of more than 25% of the ordinary share capital of Target , prima facie s135 TCGA 1992 would apply so as to preclude a disposal on the exchange of Target shares for Newco debentures , though it would be advisable to obtain from the Inland Revenue advance clearance for this sort of structure under s138 . |
| 24 | In 1846 he moved his main manufacture to Pendleton , near Manchester , and became the principal supplier of this important substance , which was also valuable for the expanding paper industry . |
| 25 | He became the principal supplier of scientific instruments to Charles Boyle , fourth Earl of Orrery [ q.v. ] , who amassed one of the finest collections of the age . |
| 26 | The tiny ‘ Cordwood Ltd. ’ line on British Columbia 's Vancouver Island , opened in 1894 , became the principal supplier of milk to the provincial capital , Victoria . |
| 27 | Their decisions , together with the previously announced siting of the 1995 World Cup in South Africa , became the principal business of the Board 's annual meeting , which ended here yesterday . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Organizing respectable credit for respectable people became the respectable part of an accountant 's work , whose training enabled him to ensure that it was sound , that is , within the bounds of profitability . |
| 30 | He became the personal embodiment of a new solidarity , a new ralliement , nudging his fellow-countrymen towards a new accommodation to changing circumstances at home and overseas . |