Example sentences of "[noun] it became [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was at least partly associated with the decision to introduce ‘ hard labour ’ into prisons , but far from providing regular , steady discipline and useful work it became drudgery of the hardest and most servile kind , a hated example of the additional pains of imprisonment . |
| 2 | In the mid-1980s it became part of the electricians ' union the EEPTU . |
| 3 | Next day it became bus service 12 , now shared with the blue buses of Fylde Borough . |
| 4 | After a while it became part of the nomes ' world , so that when it stopped the silence came as a shock . |
| 5 | The loyalty that he inspired was genuine , but in the end it became self-defeating , as Kinnock himself realised — witness his damaging refusal to state his own position on electoral reform , lest it should close off discussion . |
| 6 | In fact it became standing room only as Mr Duncan Broady , curator of the Greater Manchester Police Museum , gave a fascinating lecture about crime in the period , particularly as it affected Manchester and Salford . |