Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] become a " in BNC.

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1 I He was very good-looking and fast became a popular idol — ‘ As Paris handsome and as Hector brave ’ , according to a contemporary poetaster .
2 Everything needing a temporary home found its way into the stable and then became a permanency .
3 The first clinical signs are dullness , reluctance to eat and usually a temperature rise to 103F–105F together with a runny nose which starts watery but soon becomes a very thick yellowy discharge down both nostrils .
4 By virtue of not developing , you stand still and eventually become an anachronism . ’
5 this prevents civilians from becoming far too powerful and then becoming a dictatorship .
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