Example sentences of "[noun] had become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her bedroom had become a nest . |
| 2 | In 1929 Hill had become a director of the Eagle Star Insurance Company , which , in the economic recovery of the 1930s , grew rapidly and had substantial funds to invest . |
| 3 | Jazz had become a way of life for her . |
| 4 | A bakery had become a betting shop and a draper 's had turned into the offices of a building society . |
| 5 | Nicaragua had become a second Cuba , and the President had ordered an invasion . |
| 6 | The thumb prick had become a finger prick over the years and was the only bit which mildly hurt . |
| 7 | Ivan had become a legend , a symbol of all the other Ivans who died on the battlefields and fought village by village and street by street to drive the invader out of Russia . |
| 8 | The college had become a body concerned with the formulation and execution of foreign policy and nothing else . |
| 9 | The former Archbishop of Prague , Cardinal Frantisek Tomasek , who under Communist rule had become a symbol of the struggle for religious freedom , died on Aug. 4 aged 93 , of heart failure complicated by pneumonia . |
| 10 | At a later meeting of all the chiefs , in the palace , a proclamation was read out detailing the acts which had convinced the ministers that Lij Yasu had become a Muslim . |
| 11 | Already by early March , Verdun had become a ghost town . |
| 12 | In another report , Tass correspondent Nikolai Morozov said University Square in Bucharest had become a centre of the protests , with mainly young speakers taking turns to denounce the government . |
| 13 | By the end of his testimony , North had become a haircut , a logo for T-shirts , a doll , a cocktail , a hero sandwich ( ’ red-blooded American beef , a little bologna , shredded lettuce , Swiss cheese ’ ) , a hamburger ( ’ secret sauce from an old Iranian recipe ’ ) and a design for boxer shorts ; vigils were held for him , and the hamlet of Ollie , Iowa ( population 230 ) was besieged with fascinated enquiries . |
| 14 | The check had become a matter of necessity rather than of choice . |
| 15 | The British in 1979 were poised between a reverence for old historic symbols which had provided order and cohesion over the centuries , and an uneasy awareness that such reverence had become a recipe for immobilism and devotion to the outdated totems of the past . |
| 16 | Afterwards her home had become a place of coldness , of ugly , hidden , unspoken emotions . |
| 17 | And he made a number of management changes which reinforced the impression that Eurotunnel had become a company capable of acting in the best interests of bankers and shareholders and standing up to the demands of the Anglo-French contracting consortium . |
| 18 | By 1960 , Sir Frank had become a site manager and three years later , as Managing Director of the construction company , Pozemni Stavby Zavbod Opava , he gained a place at Brno Technical University to study construction . |
| 19 | By the time he 'd reached 70th Street the sleet had become a drizzle , and there was a spring in his step . |
| 20 | Although I recognized the same black fire in his eyes , the farm boy had become a gentleman . |
| 21 | What used to be a real chase had become a ritual . |
| 22 | The central road between the gardens had become a parade ground . |
| 23 | Within this context he also criticized families for whom welfare assistance had become a way of life . |
| 24 | For the Galileo story it is important to know that over the centuries Aristotle 's philosophy had become a part of Catholic orthodoxy . |
| 25 | The Commission stated in limine that in 1983 , before Spain had become a member of the Community , the United Kingdom had not taken appropriate measures to exclude ‘ Anglo-Spanish ’ vessels from its fishing fleet , apparently because those vessels fished mainly in areas to the west of Ireland and mostly for species ( such as hake ) for which there was a much better market in Spain than in the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | Fortunately for us both , Dulcie had become a star both in theatre and films . |
| 27 | By the early 1950s the saw milling business had moved elsewhere and the site had become a scrapyard , a sad and unsightly end to a long and varied career . |
| 28 | The February meeting was the first of its kind to be hosted by Saudi Arabia , which opposed a major role for the Shi'ite opposition in a future Iraqi government , but now considered that the ousting of Saddam Hussein had become a priority . |
| 29 | Matthew Glynn had become a subject : ‘ Caucasian male , aged fifty-two … |
| 30 | Prince Adelchis had become a client or patrician at the court of Constantinople ; this left Charles free to have himself proclaimed as king in Italy . |