Example sentences of "it [adv] become a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only became a moot point because David was a meal ticket for so many people . |
| 2 | It soon became a successful coal port and ship-building centre . |
| 3 | A mixed group , many of whose members showed little respect for the principle of lesbian and gay self-organization , it soon became a sectarian battlefield and did little to organize lesbians and gays with no previous political experience . |
| 4 | It soon became a phenomenal success , and was closely followed by the opening of a major factory in Wijk , Holland , ‘ bought with borrowed money that was not available to the company ’ , James commented . |
| 5 | I had not gone far before the rain started and it soon became a sluicing downpour that never abated all day . |
| 6 | It thus becomes a major provider of information on the industry as a whole , so that the analyst has much material for study . |
| 7 | It thus becomes a major constituent of the waste product , faeces . |
| 8 | When Headway Intermediate was published it quickly became a firm favourite with students and teachers alike . |
| 9 | With all their bathtime favourites to play with it 's not surprising it quickly becomes a real highlight for even the youngest toddler in the family . |
| 10 | Johnson & Johnson chief executive Frank De Angeli did a management buy-out and set up Devro in Scotland , where it quickly become a major exporter world wide . |
| 11 | It fast became a glorious gathering place for the artistic intelligentsia of the day , who helped to enhance Biddesden further . |
| 12 | In 1848 Prince Windischgrätz turned it into the headquarters of his General Staff ; it then became a special school for the Communist Party and is now being restored as the Academy of Music . |
| 13 | ( This is why time-out should be as boring as possible — it then becomes a real penalty . ) |
| 14 | With your preparation and your prospecting complete it then becomes a simple matter of erecting the net in the right place on the night . |
| 15 | It then becomes a dramatic possibility to violate the anticipation . |
| 16 | What I 've said is that I 'd like to see the existing C P O's become divisional staff at the division that they are working now so that the divisional commander can allow them to stay there holding hands with the new civilian C P O for up to six months if necessary because it then becomes a local decision as to when the when the two have that umbilical cut . |
| 17 | If workers hold a democratic vote to go on strike for whatever reason , it ill becomes a Labour government to legislate to make it unlawful . |
| 18 | It therefore becomes a little universe of independent reality in revolt from God and the rest of time , and able to fence itself off from the lessons of the past and the demands of the future . |
| 19 | Spectator sport may have been partially commercialized but it never became a capitalist leisure enterprise . |