Example sentences of "it [vb past] become [art] " in BNC.

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1 Since the heady days of Henson it had become a duller and more local object .
2 The Committee reported in December 1942 , by which time it had become a part of the larger Cabinet Committee on Reconstruction problems .
3 ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor .
4 Anyway , he took a liking to David definitely , and from that point it was no longer a singer and a group , it had become a singer with a group , which is a different thing altogether .
5 They had really tired of each other and it had become a struggle between them that was slow to surface until the Diamond Dogs tour because a lot of things happened on that tour that they were both very unhappy about .
6 By the third quarter of the century , it had become a dye works , producing dyestuffs from logwood .
7 By 1729 , it had become a cloth mill worked as tenant by Edward Peach .
8 Then it was a corn mill but , by the 16th century , it had become a cloth mill , presumably used for fulling .
9 A great wave of Greek influence in Rome began in the mid-second century BC with the conquest of Greece , and lasted well into the first century , by which time it had become a well-established fashion for young men of well-to-do families to complete their education in Athens .
10 It had become a creation of the press and not of himself .
11 It had become a sort of trouble-shooting body that had been put in to try and dish the Foreign Office and got a bloody nose .
12 It had become a sort of one-off adventurer and then after '79 it took on another role again .
13 By late Tudor times it had become a prosperous wool-producing centre , and had a thriving tannery , but after the civil wars , during which it housed a small Parliamentary garrison , it gradually declined inactivity and status .
14 It had become a political hot potato , and time ran out as backers bickered over what tests to run .
15 I went on following : it had become a habit .
16 It had become a very sad sight indeed , but Jack hardly noticed as he turned and stared back down the hill to Sakata , its neat rows of buildings looking like so much Lego .
17 The observation that it had become a sick bag is credited to …
18 With a port virtually within the town and well-placed for access to the coastal plain , Downs and Weald it had become a significant trading centre .
19 I suppose it was considered such a terrible thing to say about anyone that it had become a totally taboo concept — even for your worst enemy .
20 By the early 1980s it had become a matter of faith .
21 The excavator noted that domestic rubbish had been tipped inside the precinct because , either it had become a convenient dumping ground , or there had been an attempt at deliberate desecration , as happened at a later date in the orchestra of the Verulamium temple theatre .
22 Did that exhibition suggest to you that Pop Art was a thrusting and lively activity with a relevance in contemporary art , or that it had become a comfortable and nostalgic moment in art history ?
23 The birthday party was of a kind which Cecilia would have wondered at , had she been invited to it , for although a few of Bienvida 's classmates were present in its early stages , by seven it had become a celebration for the grown-ups .
24 And so began a friendship that before Ellie knew it had become a courtship .
25 It had become a familiar sound over the last couple of days .
26 Soon it had become a continuous deluge as if countless buckets of black ink were being emptied from the sky above them .
27 But with the decline of France , Italy and Germany from great power status it had become a power vacuum .
28 Its academic success had been such that it had become progressively less progressive , its original zeal swamped by the fee-paying prosperous solid Northern conservatism of parents and offspring : it had become a bastion of respectability , its one-time principles upheld by stray survivors like Doddridge , who appeared blithely not to notice that at election time the entire school , with one or two flamboyant exceptions , howled its enthusiasm for the Tory Party .
29 I stopped going after six months because I felt I 'd resolved my immediate problem , and it had become a drag and an effort , largely because I had a problem with the silences .
30 It had become a question of the district committee 's prestige ; they were determined to use any weapon ready to their hand to vindicate their authority , and grossly abused the quite frightening powers at their command . ’
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