Example sentences of "became [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But from my own researches it became plain to me that she was very much a person of her times , as compared with Beatrice Webb who became so much a critic of her times . |
| 2 | As a result the society became less specifically a group of the left . |
| 3 | Since the Libyan system allowed no formal campaign with a beginning and a pre-announced end , the agonistic element was concentrated in the ballot which became much more a contest between voters than one between candidates . |
| 4 | Dr Carrington was trained as a physician and a psychiatrist ; however , particularly as he became more ill , his professional mantle dropped away from him , as is often the case , and he became more simply a sick human . |
| 5 | Later , once a variety of diplomatic initiatives had been tried and discarded , it became more literally a ‘ War Cabinet ’ . |
| 6 | In medieval Christianity they became more specifically a symbol of purity , not just because of their gentle lustre , but still more because they were grown secretly and , it was believed , with personal suffering by the oyster . ) |
| 7 | This led to an improvement in trade and a fall in inflation , so that Germany in the late 1980s became once again a country of trade surpluses and a strong currency , at the cost of some social division . |
| 8 | Old Mel returned to her corner and became once more a shapeless dark bundle . |
| 9 | Barcelona became once more a great Mediterranean port — its trade , which had been the pride of medieval Catalonia , had quintupled since the early years of the century — and it now started its career as an industrial city . |
| 10 | Down in Chesney St Michael-in-the-Moor tolled the hour — six , seven , eight , and on the last note , the red light glimmered and failed , the harp-like shadows fled and the Altar became once more a sheet of half-buried stone . |
| 11 | She became once more a woman of first instincts . |
| 12 | The Scots engineer became as much a part of the legends of the land as Bruce ‘ s spider and the story of Sawney Bean . |
| 13 | With its listings of all-night movies , ‘ happenings ’ and a news section of political agitation that once moved Mick Jagger to remark that wading through it to find out what was showing at the NFT was ‘ like crossing a picket line ’ , Time Out became as much a fixture of London bedsit life as the latest Mike Oldfield or Sex Pistols record . |
| 14 | So an era ends and a new one begins for the newspaper which became as much a part of the Ulster Saturday as the bar , the bookie 's and the bath . |
| 15 | The nineteenth century was to see its status as the language of diplomacy grow still further as it became even more a symbol of some underlying European unity which , however vague , was genuinely felt to exist by most of those who decided the continent 's destinies . |
| 16 | Slowly , homosexuality and the ( male ) deviant sex it introduced became yet again a metaphor for ideas of the ‘ private ’ , or the hidden — as pop , once more , concentrated on ever more fragmented ideas about private possibilities — introduced , by way of example , ‘ case histories ’ that could serve as models for this new round of pleasure and fantasy . |
| 17 | It became very much a matter of the old touring buddies looking after each other . |
| 18 | The war thus became very much a joint concern , with the nobility playing as important a part as the king in recruiting and commanding armies and conducting campaigns . |