Example sentences of "became [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local communities became less a defence against the pressures of a hostile world , more a basis for active resistance : . |
| 2 | For him it now became less a place of protest than a refuge for failures , free-loaders and misfits . |
| 3 | That is how a system for dealing with genuine refugees — the losers in Indochina 's civil wars — became insensibly a system for turning North Vietnamese peasants into New York waiters . |
| 4 | That is how a system for dealing with genuine refugees — the losers in Indochina 's civil wars — became insensibly a system for turning North Vietnamese peasants into New York waiters . |
| 5 | I kept them to myself , where they constantly grew in depth and where they became merely a backdrop to my private obsession : home , family , school , everything . |
| 6 | became just a kind of foreman , or perhaps a member of lower managerial supervisory staff … the employers appear to have been determined to take the important decisions themselves rather than leave the butty with a significant degree of independence , as the modernity and high level of mechanization of the new pits perhaps dictated . |
| 7 | From being a central coordinator determining a common line to be followed by all member firms , they became more a centre to which their members might turn for advice and industrial relations services , particularly those relating to the expanding field of labour law and other consequences of government action such as incomes policy requirements . |
| 8 | As a result of losing the war in 1948 — excuse us for winning — the Arabs became partly a community of refugees . |
| 9 | Trusted paper became both a collateral for short-term credit and an immensely important medium of exchange . |
| 10 | In such conflicts , Haigh notes , religious policy , on which obedience could be crucially tested , became both a weapon and a prize . |
| 11 | How feminism and sexual radicalism became increasingly a minority current in a labour movement dominated by economism , can be explained by examining the effect of the inter-relationship between patriarchy and British imperialism on the working class , but can not be fully detailed here . |
| 12 | Natural history had been based in the museum , and in the field ; but the newer science of biology , named by a Frenchman and a German and prominently pursued by these two nations , became increasingly a laboratory science with experiment rather than description as the key . |
| 13 | The dominating size and aggressive shape of Sandweg church reminded Miss Danziger that it had played as great a part in the physical defence of the island as in its spiritual well-being ; but , although its size and shape were awesome at a distance , the church became increasingly a place of sanctuary as she neared it . |
| 14 | Valencia , over which he was only nominal ruler , became virtually a kingdom with El Cid as its Lord . |
| 15 | After a further period of three months or so , Don Bennett appointed me Group training inspector — and I became virtually a horse thief ! |
| 16 | In the forest itself the streams became roaring torrents and the Swamp , doubled in size , became overnight a lake . |
| 17 | In Parliament there was non-cooperation that became almost a guerrilla war between the parties . |
| 18 | Bodley was a corresponding member of the Institut de France ( Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques ) , and he was praised by Charles Maurras as the Englishman who knew France , so that ‘ he became almost a Frenchman without ceasing to be an Englishman . ’ |
| 19 | There , in a wooded dell called Holford Glen , close to the village church , they found an almost inaccessible waterfall which interrupted the Holford brook on its journey to the sea , and which , for them as for Coleridge , quickly became almost a voice of nature , an abiding , animated presence at the heart of their Quantock lives . |
| 20 | Reasoning that the very nature of Doctor Who would mean scenes at the beginning and end of serials where only the regular cast were involved , this element became almost a prerequisite to production . |
| 21 | Private rooms became almost a thing of the past , for closets went out of fashion ; bedrooms , which had formerly existed on all floors , went upstairs , but , although their dressing-rooms were often furnished as boudoirs , these were out-of-bounds from after breakfast , except in times of illness . |
| 22 | On the positive side , steam traction became almost a thing of the past ; by the end of 1966 , 96 per cent of total coaching train miles were operated by diesel or electric trains . |
| 23 | But he gave an account of having grown up being looked after by black servants because both his parents worked , and he claimed that , after they had separated , a black housekeeper named Evelyn became almost a mother-figure to him . |
| 24 | Thereafter he became almost a father to me . |
| 25 | The early plywoods were glued with vegetable or blood glues and , having virtually no moisture resistance , the word became almost a term of abuse . |
| 26 | In fact , Boy quickly became quite a regular at The Bar . |
| 27 | Of course it became quite a game searching for pairs of initials but I do n't remember finding Alfred 's once . ’ |
| 28 | I became quite a celebrity because of it . |
| 29 | First during the seventies the position of women in society , an issue dormant since the 1930s , became again a matter of public debate . |
| 30 | He became instead a boot and shoe maker . |