Example sentences of "it [vb past] become the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had become the most important part of his choreography . |
| 2 | By 1884 it had become the Art Workers ' Guild , the hub of the Arts and Crafts Movement , which aimed to bring back all the fine and craft arts and to follow the writings of Ruskin and William Morris . |
| 3 | But by the 430s it had become the religion of most educated Roman town-dwellers . |
| 4 | They were also aware of an even deeper change in the texture of Christianity : it had become the religion of a warrior nobility whose values and culture it had necessarily to absorb in the process of Christianizing them . |
| 5 | The Provence seems to have been Miller 's favourite type of rose ; he frequently stressed its outstanding fragrance , an important consideration in the flower garden , and said that by the mid-eighteenth century it had become the most widely propagated of any kind . |
| 6 | By 1914 , it had become the headquarters of the Village Institute stopped generating electricity and was , in the 1930s , largely destroyed by fire . |
| 7 | By the time it reached the Manchester Palace it had become the most well documented tour of the year . |
| 8 | By late October , however , it had become the ‘ universal Topic ’ in a more serious sense , and on one occasion was expounded by Coleridge in a conversation lasting six hours . |
| 9 | James Hadley , writing his will in 1532 , remembered the church as one of Somerset 's ‘ holy places ’ , and by the late eighteenth century it had become the frequent destination of topographical writers who came searching for the romantically sublime . |
| 10 | Its origins were Queen Anne but it had been remodelled several times , most radically at the turn of the century when it had become the holiday home of a London architect . |
| 11 | By the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 it had become the most professional in Europe . |
| 12 | Certainly , there were examples of transparent deception : for example , when , as proof of their transcendental patriotism , the ICP dissolved itself and announced it had become the Association for Marxist Studies . |
| 13 | Positivism in turn can be seen as a set of ideas tending to reinforce the ideological domination ( or ‘ hegemony ’ ) of the bourgeois class at a yet later stage when it had become the ruling class in Europe : if criminal actions can be described as the result of mindless pathology rather than rational choice this both absolves capitalism of any blame for crime and helps to delegi-timize protest against the existing order ( Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 14 | It had become the truth . |
| 15 | By the following century , it had become the nucleus of a Benedictine abbey which grew to become one of the leading centres of learning in central Europe . |
| 16 | By the summer it had become the Los Angeles Free Press . |
| 17 | In local elections on Dec. 17 , 1989 [ see also p. 37197 ] , the PSD won 31.46 per cent of the vote ( as compared with 50.2 per cent in the July 1987 general election when it had become the only party in the post-1974 era to secure an absolute parliamentary majority — see pp. 35388-90 ) . |
| 18 | By that time , many more men had arrived , swirling up through the yard to be sucked into the hall , as if it had become the quiet , humming centre of some whirlpool of power . |
| 19 | It had become the regular haunt of hearty working men with fearsome bottom cleavage , who shared an appreciation of small newspapers with big headlines , a moderate spread at an affordable price and a well-turned ankle . |
| 20 | As its great historian pointed out , " French became the language of states because it had become the language of courts and aristocracies " . |