Example sentences of "had become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Verderers might also be removed from office on a report by the Justice of the Forest to the Chancery that they were incapacitated by old age or sickness , or occupied with other duties , or were insufficiently qualified in that they held no land within the forest and did not dwell there , or had committed or connived at trespasses of vert or venison , or had become a paid officer of the forest , or , in one case , had ‘ entered the priestly order ’ . |
| 32 | The effects of this on her appearance were utterly disastrous ; without muscle tension her face had become a near-shapeless mass , down which mucus and saliva coursed . |
| 33 | Everybody knew he had become a lame duck . ’ |
| 34 | It is also the culmination of a fifteen-year period in which the care of children had become a major political concern , the focus of media attention and public outrage , and an ideological battleground for rival pressure groups and experts . |
| 35 | In fact , unknown to them , the clearing of the gas had become a major problem . |
| 36 | By the autumn of 1917 , food queues had become a major grievance and demands for a more equitable distribution of food led to mass demonstrations and even strikes in many parts of the country . |
| 37 | Television , which had become a major force in American political life , was essential to Reagan 's success in obtaining the Republican nomination in 1980 . |
| 38 | The ‘ environment ’ had become a major political issue , and with the media constantly monitoring the progress of policy development , this resulted in active competition between elected officials to produce and be credited with strong legislation . |
| 39 | The Great Idea had become a major disaster , she had been lucky to escape with her life . |
| 40 | The violence began on June 4 in the city of Osh , which had a majority Uzbek population , sparked off by a dispute over the use of farmland for housing ( the scarcity of housing in Central Asia had become a major political issue in recent years , and had already been a factor in ethnic violence between Uzbeks and Meskhetians in the nearby Fergana valley in June 1989 , and in rioting in Tadjikistan in February 1990 — see pp. 36744-45 ; 37256-57 ) . |
| 41 | Despite few policy differences between the two major parties , the PNM exploited widespread fears that in agreeing to the temporary residence of 100 Haitian refugees , Robinson was seeking to change the racial mix in a country where race relations had become a major political and social issue . |
| 42 | Bush appeared to have recovered from what was later described as gastric influenza by the following day , but this was the second occasion within a year that the health of the 67-year-old President — and the possible succession of Vice-President Dan Quayle — had become a major news issue [ see p. 38183 ] . |
| 43 | While business studies had become a major component of CNAA-validated undergraduate courses , the DMS was the stepping stone into concern for part-time continuing education in the management field . |
| 44 | Today they had become a real sun-trap and it was a relief to swop the white , rocky desert for the subdued greens and browns of heather and grass which sweep across The Allotment up towards Simon Fell , its flanks scarred by the pale slash of Ingleborough 's eastern approach track . |
| 45 | It had become a real Waterloo : Alexandre collapsed into a Builders Arms ! |
| 46 | All the evidence seems to indicate that he had become a half-hearted Anglican — perhaps that was a safer way , after all , of establishing yourself as a respectable tradesman than anything which smacked in any way of revolt or radicalism ? |
| 47 | The wounded in these hospitals lived in terror of the periodical decoration parades ; because it had become a recognised custom to reward a man about to die with the Croix de Guerre . |
| 48 | [ By July 1972 the People 's Park had become a dusty , informal campsite for wayfarers ( Los Angeles Times , 30 July 1972 ) . ] |
| 49 | The Workers ' Travel Association was set up to give workers the opportunity to travel ; it began in a modest way but by the 1950s had become a worldwide organization . |
| 50 | It had become a worldwide traded commodity . |
| 51 | But the existence of the offer -however it arose — reminded the town of what once had been a great benefit , and the Company of what had become a great burden , which it had no wish to assume again , however indirectly . |
| 52 | Powerful public examples of this were seen in photographs taken after the death of the American president J.F. Kennedy who had become a great folk hero to the American people . |
| 53 | By 1959 , the 1.7-square mile site had become a small industrial town in its own right and production peaked at 470,000 cars , trucks and tractors . |
| 54 | He had become a small tree . |
| 55 | The weapon in Mr Cottle 's hand had become a long , loosely coiled spring , lit from within as though by moonlight . |
| 56 | For her sake , Harry had abandoned his political ambitions , and had become a simple man of the church . |
| 57 | Arthur had become a professional musical instrument maker . |
| 58 | By this time Hill had become a recognized Evangelical leader in Oxford . |
| 59 | Ten years later , George had become a woollen cloth dresser but Smith ( as he was normally known ) walked 3 miles each day to Samuel Fox 's new steelworks at Stocksbridge to work as a steel temperer . |
| 60 | His tremor had worsened in the past weeks , a mild oscillation had become a violent jerk of the head . |