Example sentences of "become [adj] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Country house visiting , which had been common in the eighteenth century and Regency when everyone liked to have their taste admired , became infrequent as even the greatest houses closed their gates to visitors , persuaded that the sanctities of ‘ home ’ were not for exhibition to the public eye . |
| 2 | Aluminium had recently been prepared in bulk by the eminent Parisian Professor Henri Ste-Claire Deville , who became famous as both a teacher and researcher . |
| 3 | POWELL : That — that nursery of traitors and nest of vipers. ( clears throat ) A phrase which has become classic if not an actual thing . |
| 4 | From this point moral indignation became more than simply a grassroots phenomenon . |
| 5 | The ie became more than ever the pre-eminent entity in society . |