Example sentences of "it became [num] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As I grew up in Kensal Green — which is just up the road from Ladbroke Grove — it became one of the areas the first wave of black immigrants came to .
2 As the news of Monkey Mia spread , it became one of Australia 's leading tourist attractions and was included on the itinerary of tour buses .
3 Along with Bologna , Oxford and Paris , it became one of the great centres of medieval scholarship , attracting students from all over Europe .
4 It became one of the most successful in the district and in 1920 was amalgamated with Hunt , Winterbotham , Strachan & Co .
5 It became one of the best known ‘ psychotogenic ’ drugs .
6 Ben Hogan has said that he wished he had learned the importance of left forearm rotation earlier in his career , as it became one of his keys in his later years .
7 It became one of his regular haunts , as did the Gargoyle , the club founded in the 1920s by David Tennant and run by him and Hermione Baddeley as a meeting-place for society and the arts .
8 Although the Harter Act compromise was seemingly counterintuitive ( how could the carrier be allowed to exempt itself for its own mistakes of navigation and management ) , it became one of the most internationally influential laws ever enacted by the United States Congress .
9 Under her leadership it became one of the most respected periodicals in the field .
10 Of liberal disposition , he opened Thirlestane House to the public and it became one of the greatest attractions of Cheltenham .
11 In doing so it became one of the few countries where the brand has an active agency handling Guinness through the retail distribution system .
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