Example sentences of "it [vb past] become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Horace it might have been a short madness ; in Frere it threatened to become a running sore . |
| 2 | It was an arena perfectly adapted to pomp and circumstance and was to witness many subsequent celebrations of the successes of the English nation as it grew to become a dominant world power . |
| 3 | It had become a real Waterloo : Alexandre collapsed into a Builders Arms ! |
| 4 | It had become a narrow , word-spinning sect . |
| 5 | Ally Pally 's pre-restoration days undoubtedly had associations of tatty romance — they lay in the contrast between the Cecil B. De Mille bravura of the original concept and such visible signs of its decline , as if it had become a Victorian actor/manager unable to gesticulate because of rheumatism . |
| 6 | It had become a worldwide traded commodity . |
| 7 | She told me she did n't eat lunch any more as it had become a bourgeois meal , but I could call in for a cup of de-caff and con her into whatever it was I wanted . |
| 8 | It had become a familiar sound over the last couple of days . |
| 9 | It had become a political hot potato , and time ran out as backers bickered over what tests to run . |
| 10 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 11 | The wounded in these hospitals lived in terror of the periodical decoration parades ; because it had become a recognised custom to reward a man about to die with the Croix de Guerre . |
| 12 | Soon it had become a continuous deluge as if countless buckets of black ink were being emptied from the sky above them . |
| 13 | With a port virtually within the town and well-placed for access to the coastal plain , Downs and Weald it had become a significant trading centre . |
| 14 | By late Tudor times it had become a prosperous wool-producing centre , and had a thriving tannery , but after the civil wars , during which it housed a small Parliamentary garrison , it gradually declined inactivity and status . |
| 15 | By the second century B.C. it had become a large square surrounded by imposing buildings . |
| 16 | A great wave of Greek influence in Rome began in the mid-second century BC with the conquest of Greece , and lasted well into the first century , by which time it had become a well-established fashion for young men of well-to-do families to complete their education in Athens . |
| 17 | Did that exhibition suggest to you that Pop Art was a thrusting and lively activity with a relevance in contemporary art , or that it had become a comfortable and nostalgic moment in art history ? |
| 18 | In 1923 he was hired personally by John ( later first Baron ) Reith [ q.v. ] as chief engineer of the recently formed British Broadcasting Company , staying in the post until 1929 , by which time it had become a public corporation , fully in charge of the ‘ spreading of the service ’ , and converting his own idea of a ‘ regional plan ’ for radio transmission into a reality . |
| 19 | The observation that it had become a sick bag is credited to … |
| 20 | And there were calls for the theatre to close as it had become a big drain on local council finances . |
| 21 | The excavator noted that domestic rubbish had been tipped inside the precinct because , either it had become a convenient dumping ground , or there had been an attempt at deliberate desecration , as happened at a later date in the orchestra of the Verulamium temple theatre . |