Example sentences of "[conj] had [adv] become a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , a chaos of carts , overthrown and jumbled together , lay topsy-turvy at the bottom of a steep unnatural hill ; there , confused treasures of iron soaked and rusted in something that had accidentally become a pond . |
| 2 | By the end of the sixteenth century it had been compounded for a cash payment from the counties and had thus become a straightforward tax . |
| 3 | Cremer had started life as a joiner and had then become a trade unionist . |
| 4 | It had started out as a panacea for one failed relationship and had quickly become a relationship in itself . |
| 5 | Two years earlier , on a more limited franchise , the first Senegalese deputy , Blaise Diagne , had been elected to the French National Assembly and had rapidly become a junior minister . |