Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] became " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first resisted by conservatives who feared its materialistic implications , evolutionism eventually became a central theme of late nineteenth-century thought , the foundation for a unified philosophy of biological and social progress . |
| 2 | Hesitation slowly became determined silence ; the line of her mouth tightened . |
| 3 | The blades , twisted like tentacles , were then dumped in the corner of the field , near a hangar , which of course swiftly became known as the Octopus Den . |
| 4 | In Manchester , Glasgow , and Newcastle similar patterns of change occurred ; elsewhere decentralization only became absolute in the 1960s , for example in Birmingham , Sheffield , Leeds , and Nottingham , Smaller cities , such as Peterborough , Ipswich , and Bedford were centralizing , absolutely and relatively , during the 1950s , but then entered a phase of relative decentralization . |
| 5 | An amazing difference occurred ; the guitar suddenly became cleaner , clearer when played acoustically and through an amp , plus I still had full use of the tremolo unit . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't do it ! ’ she had to tell her , and , when her sister 's look suddenly became hostile , ‘ I 'm sure if you wrote to Mr Gajdusek , or phoned him — or I could do it for you , ’ she volunteered hastily , not wanting to be bad friends with her , now of all times . |
| 7 | Since the strength of feeling by the Norfolk members Chairman only became really apparent in the last two dates and the wires of telephones were hot yesterday with a conversation between myself and others north of the border and since discussions we held yesterday with representatives of the Department of Transport in Bedford indicates a solution to suit all interests to make it achievable . |
| 8 | Refusal in payment , forgery or any other misuse thereby became treason or sacrilege and attracted savage penalties . |
| 9 | This thinking eventually became publicly manifest in my book A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry ( 1969 ) , also written with the encouragement of , who was general editor of the Longmans English Language Series in which it , like English in Advertising , was published . |
| 10 | Because Granby House was a listed building , the contractor eventually became exempt from this tax , but as he could not reclaim any VAT he had already paid to suppliers , he had to pass most of it on to the developer . |
| 11 | A PART FROM a few dedicated individuals who preferred to do it the ‘ hard way ’ ( we 'll discuss that in a moment ) , the flying of a model helicopter upside down became possible with the introduction of the ‘ invert switch ’ . |
| 12 | These works , including the Queen Mary and Isabella Psalters , have led Dr Binski to conclude that ‘ a big French illustrated Old Testament suddenly became known and influential from c . |
| 13 | Dusk was falling swiftly , as it always does in the tropics , and the silence that had so impressed me by daylight suddenly became noisy with the night life of the jungly-type trees in the mountains behind-the bull frogs , strange bird cries , the never-ending background of the cicadas . |
| 14 | As young people were being encouraged , if not forced , to raise the stakes of involvement , by the pressures of the wars , brutal police , terrorist causes and other assorted hostilities , violence suddenly became an integral part of the youth movement as the feeling of the impending apocalypse heightened . |
| 15 | But in England and Wales a total of 48 designated areas had new powers to make loans and grants for industrial building ( economic regeneration soon became the most important feature ) and to declare improvement areas . |
| 16 | The enemy soon became aware of the importance of the work at Bawdsey and our intelligence got wind of plans for a massive attempt to demolish the research station . |
| 17 | None the less , anthropology soon became an independent academic study , first by amateurs , and later by university researchers . |
| 18 | Cocaine thus became another of the subjects which Ellen and I decorously avoided , like the existence of God , the wisdom of my having been a marine , feminism and the cartoons in the New Yorker . |
| 19 | As a result of this shift of emphasis Highlander soon became involved in an educational experiment in the Sea Islands of South Carolina . |
| 20 | As the director of the new Network SouthEast , he never shied away from the divisive problems of pre-Grouping company loyalty and post-war neglect , and as a media lover soon became a star . |
| 21 | Viennese modernism thus became in large measure a conservative modernism . |
| 22 | The Khlist was the perfect vehicle with which to secure the acceptable seduction of vulnerable women , and the message he propounded of redemption through sexual release resulted in hundreds of guilt-ridden and frustrated women falling prey to his advances ; his bedroom soon became known as ‘ the Holy of Holies ’ . |
| 23 | In this case , what started out as a sideline soon became of major importance . |
| 24 | With the removal of legal barriers to entry , the industry quickly became more competitive . |
| 25 | It is also more toxic , and from an early stage a further disadvantage gradually became apparent : tubercle bacilli become resistant to it remarkably quickly . |
| 26 | Established , in close co-operation with the Communist Party , by the publisher Victor Gollancz in March 1936 , the Club rapidly became rather more than a purveyor of books — though , with 50,000 members by the beginning of 1938 , it did that effectively and in vast numbers . |
| 27 | The talk quickly became too technical for Sabine to follow , and Marie-Christine laughed at her bemused expression . |
| 28 | A police patrol car also became a casualty after officers attempted to help stranded motorists . |
| 29 | Under H. Llewellyn Smith the department also became an important source of investigation of the numbers and condition of the unemployed . |
| 30 | The force also became more ethnically representative of the population . |