Example sentences of "[noun] had become [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alcuin had become an instrument of Frankish policy . |
| 2 | By 1750 the buying and selling of government stock had become a straightforward routine . |
| 3 | Iraq eventually announced on Aug. 28 that Kuwait had become the 19th Iraqi governorate ( liwa ) . |
| 4 | Coalition had become a political habit that would be quite difficult to break and had sapped the party 's confidence in itself . |
| 5 | Her bedroom had become a nest . |
| 6 | TAMARA Kennerley awoke yesterday morning to discover her ex-boyfriend had become the world 's most powerful man . |
| 7 | The future had become the present . |
| 8 | The eyes had become a jet-black bar that flamed . |
| 9 | An air of dutiful defeat had become the most appropriate demeanour for a Home Secretary . |
| 10 | In 1929 Hill had become a director of the Eagle Star Insurance Company , which , in the economic recovery of the 1930s , grew rapidly and had substantial funds to invest . |
| 11 | By this time Hill had become a recognized Evangelical leader in Oxford . |
| 12 | Jazz had become a way of life for her . |
| 13 | Her mother had once remarked that it was her opinion that Harry had actually caused Nathan 's idiocy in a fit of temper soon after he was born , and through whispered gossip over the years she had guessed that Tristram had become the focus of conflict between his parents and that he had found it increasingly necessary to defend both Nathan and his mother against his father 's violent outbursts of temper . |
| 14 | Thin streaks of cirrus lay parallel to the horizon , and between them the sun 's orb had become a well-defined sphere of a rich rose-crimson . |
| 15 | By 1542 , Henry 's fear had become the dominant emotion and he ordered Parliament to legislate against those who used incantations and practices of sorcery aimed at killing or injuring people , or destroying their goods and chattels . |
| 16 | By the end of the 1970s , the increasing weakness of American political parties had become the subject of comment and concern across the country . |
| 17 | A bakery had become a betting shop and a draper 's had turned into the offices of a building society . |
| 18 | On Page One , at the top of the TV news , the fight for the Democratic Party 's nomination for the Presidency of the United States had become a media-induced fight between two minorities : Jews and Blacks . |
| 19 | A delegate from Mexico argued that the United States had become the centre of gravity of imperialism , and it was this growing awareness of the importance of the United States which prompted the Comintern 's rising interest in Latin America , as the ‘ colonial , economic base of the new imperialism . |
| 20 | There social science and social research had become an established and thriving part of the academic community from the beginning of this century . |
| 21 | Nicaragua had become a second Cuba , and the President had ordered an invasion . |
| 22 | His tremor had worsened in the past weeks , a mild oscillation had become a violent jerk of the head . |
| 23 | The thumb prick had become a finger prick over the years and was the only bit which mildly hurt . |
| 24 | Ivan had become a legend , a symbol of all the other Ivans who died on the battlefields and fought village by village and street by street to drive the invader out of Russia . |
| 25 | The college had become a body concerned with the formulation and execution of foreign policy and nothing else . |
| 26 | The former Archbishop of Prague , Cardinal Frantisek Tomasek , who under Communist rule had become a symbol of the struggle for religious freedom , died on Aug. 4 aged 93 , of heart failure complicated by pneumonia . |
| 27 | At a later meeting of all the chiefs , in the palace , a proclamation was read out detailing the acts which had convinced the ministers that Lij Yasu had become a Muslim . |
| 28 | The pomeshchiks had become a substantial body and provided the military backbone of the State . |
| 29 | Already by early March , Verdun had become a ghost town . |
| 30 | Labour had become the establishment . |