Example sentences of "it [vb past] become " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its impact could probably have been even greater but it ceased to become available to students by 1980 and this was unfortunate when many much less meritorious texts have soldiered on ! |
| 2 | Over the course of the period between 1529 and 1559 , the English church experienced a number of dramatic changes in its nature and status ; starting out as a branch of the international Roman Catholic church , it moved to become first an independent , schismatic Catholic church , and later a unique , hybrid Protestant church . |
| 3 | It is often asserted that the First World War rescued the Unionist Party from an impossible position and left it poised to become the dominating force ; the war broke up Liberalism and destroyed the Liberal-Labour alliance , so opening the way for Unionism ; Lloyd George carried the party to victory in 1918 , incurred the odium for the post-war slump and was cast aside ungratefully in 1922 . |
| 4 | As I investigated further , it seemed to become clear that if this question could be answered it could only be in a complex way . |
| 5 | But suddenly it seemed to become very angry with the English visitor , who was talking to it . |
| 6 | In the move to the middle ground of politics , it risked becoming indistinguishable from its rivals , except that it was tarnished with holding office for so long . |
| 7 | They were not in fact the same thing — they were two separate things — and up until this point , it seemed like it was all one thing — that MainMan and David were the same — but it began to become apparent that they were n't . |
| 8 | As the reorganised schools began to settle and establish themselves it began to become apparent that the curriculum , the vehicle for educational progress , needed to be reorganised also . |
| 9 | For Horace it might have been a short madness ; in Frere it threatened to become a running sore . |
| 10 | A country that had once been central to itself was on the periphery : it needed to become central again . |
| 11 | We all worked and lived at the same place and it seemed pretty cool to me at the time , but it started to become more and more negative until it got to the point where I wanted to leave … and I realised that they would n't let me ! |
| 12 | However , no equipment will last for ever and it started to become obvious that I would need to update before too long . |
| 13 | Well it started to become like er |
| 14 | It was an arena perfectly adapted to pomp and circumstance and was to witness many subsequent celebrations of the successes of the English nation as it grew to become a dominant world power . |
| 15 | As Lord Malmesbury had prophesied , it did become ‘ a magnificent court ’ which did indeed ‘ command the attention of all Europe ’ . |
| 16 | But it did become something very different at the end , when Freddie went . |
| 17 | When it did become available , it was possible to repeat some of the earlier investigations with the CED and OALD using the larger sample size that was recommended , and to include the LDOCE as a further choice of dictionary . |
| 18 | I mean supposing women 's football did get more support and i wen and i it did become more widespread , more popular at every level , there was time , the resources to do it , do you think the things that people complained about football at the top of this programme er , the bigotry , the aggression , the rowdiness , do you think they would begin to overwhelm women 's football in the way that some of you think they 've overwhelmed men 's football ? |
| 19 | Although the business only just failed to meet the first target , it did become financially self-sustaining six months ahead of schedule . |
| 20 | But in fact it did become partially filled with air and slowed his rate of descent so he lost touch with the cameraman who was free-falling and was quickly 1,000ft below him . |
| 21 | I would like to think that if Freud were alive today , he would have said the same thing , of course when Freud wrote this book in nineteen twenty one er there was no such thing as group psychotherapy it had n't been invented yet , it was to become very much after World War Two but partly existed before and perhaps it 's past its peak now , but erm it did become very much a after World War Two and the point I made was and this is really wh wh what Heather ha h has just said , that if you take Freud 's book on , on group seriously , how can you do group psychoanalysis ? |
| 22 | Slowly , homosexuality and the ( male ) deviant sex it introduced became yet again a metaphor for ideas of the ‘ private ’ , or the hidden — as pop , once more , concentrated on ever more fragmented ideas about private possibilities — introduced , by way of example , ‘ case histories ’ that could serve as models for this new round of pleasure and fantasy . |
| 23 | Soon it had become one of the main topics of conversation . |
| 24 | In one sense civilisation as we know it had become unhinged . |
| 25 | By the time the owner had children of her own , it had become all too clear that Teddy was not likely to survive the rigours of another nursery . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , however , it had become clear that there had to be a replacement DMU which was placed midway in size and cost between the railbuses and the 210 units . |
| 27 | It had become the most important part of his choreography . |
| 28 | At that time hardly anyone but Winters would have named Williams in the same breath as Eliot , and it is characteristic of Winters 's perversity ( or his independence ) that thirty years later , when it had become usual to set Williams up against Eliot , Winters 's opinion of Williams had long been much less favourable . |
| 29 | Ms Kennedy , who is writing a book on women in the criminal justice system , said it had become common practice in rape trials to employ women lawyers for the defence . |
| 30 | Despite a decent map it had become obvious that we were approaching the high ridge of the mountains . |