Example sentences of "it [vb past] become [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had become a question of the district committee 's prestige ; they were determined to use any weapon ready to their hand to vindicate their authority , and grossly abused the quite frightening powers at their command . ’ |
| 2 | The birthday party was of a kind which Cecilia would have wondered at , had she been invited to it , for although a few of Bienvida 's classmates were present in its early stages , by seven it had become a celebration for the grown-ups . |
| 3 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
| 4 | By the third quarter of the century , it had become a dye works , producing dyestuffs from logwood . |
| 5 | They had really tired of each other and it had become a struggle between them that was slow to surface until the Diamond Dogs tour because a lot of things happened on that tour that they were both very unhappy about . |
| 6 | Its academic success had been such that it had become progressively less progressive , its original zeal swamped by the fee-paying prosperous solid Northern conservatism of parents and offspring : it had become a bastion of respectability , its one-time principles upheld by stray survivors like Doddridge , who appeared blithely not to notice that at election time the entire school , with one or two flamboyant exceptions , howled its enthusiasm for the Tory Party . |
| 7 | Often , in those anguished and bewildered days as Miss Russell began to impose a new regime , it had become a sanctuary . |
| 8 | The Committee reported in December 1942 , by which time it had become a part of the larger Cabinet Committee on Reconstruction problems . |
| 9 | I stopped going after six months because I felt I 'd resolved my immediate problem , and it had become a drag and an effort , largely because I had a problem with the silences . |
| 10 | It had become a joke between them ; he had said something similar when she told him she was off to Milan . |
| 11 | Soviet authorities persecuted the Lithuanian Catholic Church more harshly than those in the other Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia — which the Pope is also visiting — because it had become a rallying point against the communist government . |
| 12 | It had become a creation of the press and not of himself . |
| 13 | I went on following : it had become a habit . |
| 14 | But with the decline of France , Italy and Germany from great power status it had become a power vacuum . |
| 15 | Yet it had become a point of honour not to tell him about Lori . |
| 16 | Anyway , he took a liking to David definitely , and from that point it was no longer a singer and a group , it had become a singer with a group , which is a different thing altogether . |
| 17 | It had become a sort of trouble-shooting body that had been put in to try and dish the Foreign Office and got a bloody nose . |
| 18 | It had become a sort of one-off adventurer and then after '79 it took on another role again . |
| 19 | It had become a paper dart . |
| 20 | And so began a friendship that before Ellie knew it had become a courtship . |
| 21 | By 1729 , it had become a cloth mill worked as tenant by Edward Peach . |
| 22 | Then it was a corn mill but , by the 16th century , it had become a cloth mill , presumably used for fulling . |
| 23 | By the early 1980s it had become a matter of faith . |
| 24 | The Railway Gazette reported that it had become an attraction to sightseers , rather like the early days at the first Euston and at the inauguration of the great European and American stations . |
| 25 | It had become an obsession ; he was terrified he might die before he could complete it . |
| 26 | It had become an endurance test . |
| 27 | By 1884 it had become the Art Workers ' Guild , the hub of the Arts and Crafts Movement , which aimed to bring back all the fine and craft arts and to follow the writings of Ruskin and William Morris . |
| 28 | Its origins were Queen Anne but it had been remodelled several times , most radically at the turn of the century when it had become the holiday home of a London architect . |
| 29 | By 1914 , it had become the headquarters of the Village Institute stopped generating electricity and was , in the 1930s , largely destroyed by fire . |
| 30 | By that time , many more men had arrived , swirling up through the yard to be sucked into the hall , as if it had become the quiet , humming centre of some whirlpool of power . |