Example sentences of "it became [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I grew up in Kensal Green — which is just up the road from Ladbroke Grove — it became one of the areas the first wave of black immigrants came to . |
| 2 | As the news of Monkey Mia spread , it became one of Australia 's leading tourist attractions and was included on the itinerary of tour buses . |
| 3 | Along with Bologna , Oxford and Paris , it became one of the great centres of medieval scholarship , attracting students from all over Europe . |
| 4 | It became one of the most successful in the district and in 1920 was amalgamated with Hunt , Winterbotham , Strachan & Co . |
| 5 | The language had to be one accessible to more than the ruling elite , so it became one or other dialect of the vernacular . |
| 6 | It became one of the best known ‘ psychotogenic ’ drugs . |
| 7 | Ben Hogan has said that he wished he had learned the importance of left forearm rotation earlier in his career , as it became one of his keys in his later years . |
| 8 | It became one of his regular haunts , as did the Gargoyle , the club founded in the 1920s by David Tennant and run by him and Hermione Baddeley as a meeting-place for society and the arts . |
| 9 | Although the Harter Act compromise was seemingly counterintuitive ( how could the carrier be allowed to exempt itself for its own mistakes of navigation and management ) , it became one of the most internationally influential laws ever enacted by the United States Congress . |
| 10 | Under her leadership it became one of the most respected periodicals in the field . |
| 11 | Of liberal disposition , he opened Thirlestane House to the public and it became one of the greatest attractions of Cheltenham . |
| 12 | It is said that he constructed a tank and poured into it molten gold so that it became one vast molten block . |
| 13 | In doing so it became one of the few countries where the brand has an active agency handling Guinness through the retail distribution system . |
| 14 | It became 42 . |
| 15 | Then it became ten performances , same fee . |
| 16 | It became 50 times more sensitive . |