Example sentences of "[noun prp] did become " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end the NL did become demonstrably pro-Conservative and saw off the IML challenge , but divisions like this played their part in ensuring that the British Navy League was never as large or influential as its German counterpart . |
| 2 | Either , therefore , Oswiu did become king in 642 , as Bede says , or Bede was able to date the council of Whitby to 664 by reference to the eclipse and plague of that year and he calculated Oswiu 's regnal year at this point for himself on his own assumption of a succession for Oswiu in 642 . |
| 3 | Marriage perhaps played a less important part in the network of Rational Dissent in the late eighteenth century , though Josiah Wedgwood did become a relation by marriage to Sir James Mackintosh and thus in touch with the world of Brougham and the Edinburgh Review . |
| 4 | Johnson finds fault justifiably with Woodhouse 's early verse ; however , Woodhouse did become a good poet , though there is no reason why Johnson should have foreseen this . |
| 5 | Finally , if Germany did become the true economic locomotive of Europe , then she could demand support from Europe if her economic strength ever began to falter , thus exploiting her weakness in the same way as she will exploit her strength . |
| 6 | It is clear that if Hastings did become disenchanted with his erstwhile ally , the split did not develop until later and therefore , presumably , for other reasons . |
| 7 | It is clear that if Hastings did become disenchanted with his erstwhile ally , the split did not develop until later and therefore , presumably , for other reasons . |