Example sentences of "it [vb past] become a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | For Horace it might have been a short madness ; in Frere it threatened to become a running sore . |
2 | It was an arena perfectly adapted to pomp and circumstance and was to witness many subsequent celebrations of the successes of the English nation as it grew to become a dominant world power . |
3 | Ally Pally 's pre-restoration days undoubtedly had associations of tatty romance — they lay in the contrast between the Cecil B. De Mille bravura of the original concept and such visible signs of its decline , as if it had become a Victorian actor/manager unable to gesticulate because of rheumatism . |
4 | She told me she did n't eat lunch any more as it had become a bourgeois meal , but I could call in for a cup of de-caff and con her into whatever it was I wanted . |
5 | It had become a familiar sound over the last couple of days . |
6 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Soon it had become a continuous deluge as if countless buckets of black ink were being emptied from the sky above them . |
9 | With a port virtually within the town and well-placed for access to the coastal plain , Downs and Weald it had become a significant trading centre . |
10 | By the second century B.C. it had become a large square surrounded by imposing buildings . |
11 | A great wave of Greek influence in Rome began in the mid-second century BC with the conquest of Greece , and lasted well into the first century , by which time it had become a well-established fashion for young men of well-to-do families to complete their education in Athens . |
12 | In 1923 he was hired personally by John ( later first Baron ) Reith [ q.v. ] as chief engineer of the recently formed British Broadcasting Company , staying in the post until 1929 , by which time it had become a public corporation , fully in charge of the ‘ spreading of the service ’ , and converting his own idea of a ‘ regional plan ’ for radio transmission into a reality . |
13 | The observation that it had become a sick bag is credited to … |
14 | And there were calls for the theatre to close as it had become a big drain on local council finances . |
15 | The excavator noted that domestic rubbish had been tipped inside the precinct because , either it had become a convenient dumping ground , or there had been an attempt at deliberate desecration , as happened at a later date in the orchestra of the Verulamium temple theatre . |