Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 24 and 25 , the Pax Catholica association decided to become a political party . |
| 2 | By 1750 the buying and selling of government stock had become a straightforward routine . |
| 3 | Coalition had become a political habit that would be quite difficult to break and had sapped the party 's confidence in itself . |
| 4 | Thin streaks of cirrus lay parallel to the horizon , and between them the sun 's orb had become a well-defined sphere of a rich rose-crimson . |
| 5 | His tremor had worsened in the past weeks , a mild oscillation had become a violent jerk of the head . |
| 6 | The statement of light had become a depressing and , at times , boring mess of discontent . |
| 7 | The philosophies of Rousseau and of David Hartley , whose work had become a powerful influence on Coleridge , convinced them both that ‘ Vice is not natural to Man ’ , and that given strong reasons for being virtuous , ‘ Man would approach very near perfection ’ . |
| 8 | By 1093 , when the events I am about to describe took place , she was of marriageable age , about thirteen , and the question of her marriage had become a political issue of some importance . |
| 9 | A wide grin of delight had become a permanent fixture on his face , and Paul smiled at him in return as he cantered back to check the ox carts . |
| 10 | By the twentieth edition synthesis had become a well-established mechanism for allowing detailed specification without resorting to exceedingly lengthy schedules . |
| 11 | Many buildings of this period have been demolished for redevelopment since the War , so the Baltic Exchange had become a valued monument . |
| 12 | Immediately behind and above the waterfall , the sloping hillside had become a fifty-foot smooth rocky cliff , so that the water poured not only over the edge above , but out into the pool , leaving a ledge along which Bill Robins now beckoned me . |
| 13 | Looting had become a serious problem and there were no food shops which had any stocks left ; most were burnt out and vandalized . |
| 14 | He said this summer that the Warsaw Pact had to become a political rather than a military alliance . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course , it is n't the Done Thing to poach people — let alone a whole unit — from an Ally , ’ George went on , ‘ but our East German operations had completely fallen apart , the place had become a total black hole as far as The Firm knew , and they were desperate . |
| 16 | By 1959 , the 1.7-square mile site had become a small industrial town in its own right and production peaked at 470,000 cars , trucks and tractors . |
| 17 | The rumbling had become a steady , low roar , that seemed to be coming as much from inside his head as from all about him . |
| 18 | A principal sea-side town had become a large and squalid town by the sea ; not only did fashion begin to desert it by the later 1820s , but medical opinion could no longer treat it with the blind enthusiasm of earlier decades . |
| 19 | Angled away from the path of the hurricane , the concrete tube had become a giant organ pipe across the mouth of which the hurricane moaned and howled as if driven into enraged dementia by their evasion of its savagery . |
| 20 | For a generation he and his fellow ‘ martyrs ’ were forgotten men , but by the end of the century their brief celebrity had become a hallowed memory . |
| 21 | The deconstruction of the pop sales process had become a breathy celebration of sales people . |
| 22 | In Ket , a magazine published by Teeside Polytechnic Students ' Union , Gedge explained the reasons why the group had become a magnificent obsession . |
| 23 | The shapes of the pine trees on the far side of the river were already indistinguishable : the forest had become a dark impenetrable expanse that stretched from the water 's edge right up to the horizon . |
| 24 | It might have sounded relevant if the Community had become a unitary European state , but it has not . |
| 25 | The warmth of the small hut was finally melting the frozen ice in her veins , and the ceaseless rain had become a distant cradle-song . |
| 26 | Whatever its causes , the Cold War had become a permanent and dominating feature of international life . |
| 27 | Muriel Belcher had previously run a club called the Music Box in Leicester Square and which during the war had become a theatrical rendezvous . |
| 28 | One hesitates to suggest that the huge majority of Smiths converts were male ( this was to change quite dramatically later ) and that the band had become a male vision , an ironic twist when considering the Morrissey hatred of gender divides . |
| 29 | In December the Ethics Committee announced that the investigation had become a formal one which could lead to action against the senators if they were found guilty of infringing Senate rules . |
| 30 | Desire had become a physical pain . |