Example sentences of "became one [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I grew up in Kensal Green — which is just up the road from Ladbroke Grove — it became one of the areas the first wave of black immigrants came to . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , in the late eleventh century , Milan became one of the theatres of war of the investiture disputes . |
| 3 | cathedrals of the Middle Ages , stations became one of the wonders of the age . |
| 4 | It was a matter of very small beginnings for everybody , and then as the pictures that they made became more and more popular , more and more acceptable , used not merely in fairgrounds or in odd corners of shops and this sort of thing , for the odd fifteen minutes or twenty minutes of movie , but entered into the music halls , became one of the acts in the music hall entertainment erm this really was the foundation of a new industry , a new industry of entertainment , a new industry of information . |
| 5 | He could make life very difficult for her if he became one of the directors . |
| 6 | A GENERATION ago mammalian neuroanatomy seemed a scholarly subject , a frame for functional studies but unlikely to provide an impetus for the astonishing advances in understanding of the brain over the last four decades , in which Hans Kuypers became one of the leaders . |
| 7 | He upset Mary further by saying he thought Adam 's sister Bridget very attractive and it would be an inducement to him if she became one of the members . |
| 8 | She became one of the vice-presidents of the London Society for Women 's Suffrage and was acting editor of the Common Cause in 1913 . |
| 9 | Joyce was to meet her and work with her again before she became one of the defendants in the trials of 1945 . |
| 10 | His filly Silk Slippers became one of the favourites for next year 's Oaks after winning at Ascot recently and he also owns a share in The Caretaker , who won Saturday 's Cartier Million . |
| 11 | With his keen mind he soon became one of the statesmen of the church . |
| 12 | They became one of the factors that contributed to a degree of rural depression that persisted throughout the interwar years and was exacerbated by the deflationary policies pursued by successive governments . |
| 13 | In 1929 , he became one of the ragazzi di Via Panisperna — the street where Fermi 's ‘ kids ’ carried out their own experiments under the master in their own under-financed lab . |
| 14 | Bearing the name of Mandela , and in her own right , she increasingly became one of the symbols of resistance to racist tyranny both at home and abroad . |
| 15 | His sojourn on Flinders Island became one of the highlights of his stay in Tasmania . |
| 16 | Subsequently she became one of the queens of the Parisian demi-monde , ruling in the late 1860s over a loucher version of the Court from which she had been excluded . |
| 17 | These agreements were renounced after the fall of the Tsarist regime in 1917 , and Japan became one of the nations to intervene against the Bolshevik seizure of power . |
| 18 | After Spurgeon 's Metropolitan Tabernacle was erected in 1860 at the Elephant and Castle it quickly became one of the sights of London . |
| 19 | Well , she was the subject of much interest and became one of the sights of London . |
| 20 | In the late eighteenth century , John and William Hunter had built up collections of anatomical specimens for teaching purposes ; the Hunterian Collection in London became one of the sights not to be missed by the intellectual tourist in the early Victorian period , when Richard Owen was in charge of it . |
| 21 | A pupil of Dent Grammar School , Sedgwick became one of the founders of the science of geology and had a long career as Professor of Geology at Cambridge University , where he was buried in 1873 at the age of ninety-eight . |
| 22 | In 1905 he became one of the founders and first rear-commodore of the Royal Motor Yacht Club . |
| 23 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 24 | Scarcely surprisingly , he became one of the figureheads of the revolution of 1820 . |
| 25 | Since the acquisition of beautiful paintings and objects became one of the ways to clambering up the slippery social slopes this sort of chatter has become jet-propelled . |
| 26 | One of them is called the Alamo and in 1836 became one of the shrines , not only of Texan history , but of the history of the United States . |
| 27 | The mine became one of the circles of Dante 's Inferno , a London tube , a heaving labyrinth . |
| 28 | An extremely lovely VALKYRIE , Freya became one of the wives of ODIN . |
| 29 | Jan Hus preached here between 1402 and 1413 and later the Bethlehem Chapel became one of the centres of the Reformation . |
| 30 | Napier University became one of the partners in the pilot year of the Lothian Student Tutoring Scheme in August 1992 . |