Example sentences of "it [adv] became the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It only became the grandest villa when Henry Pease bought it and began work . |
2 | Hence Jacobitism , the belief that James II and his heirs were the rightful rulers of Scotland ( and possibly England as well ) took far deeper root in Scotland than England , where it soon became the mere dream of a few impractical romantics . |
3 | It thus became the eukaryotic cell . |
4 | It also became the largest city in Western Europe , with walls enclosing an area of no fewer than 483 acres . |
5 | It also became the first government since 1974 to serve a full four-year term ; a general election was due in October 1991 . |
6 | It ill became the English king , who was sovereign in his own country , to behave as a vassal towards his French suzerain , and the French king had great difficulty in controlling the behaviour of a vassal who was also a sovereign . |