Example sentences of "it [vb past] become [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often asserted that the First World War rescued the Unionist Party from an impossible position and left it poised to become the dominating force ; the war broke up Liberalism and destroyed the Liberal-Labour alliance , so opening the way for Unionism ; Lloyd George carried the party to victory in 1918 , incurred the odium for the post-war slump and was cast aside ungratefully in 1922 . |
| 2 | For Horace it might have been a short madness ; in Frere it threatened to become a running sore . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It had become a real Waterloo : Alexandre collapsed into a Builders Arms ! |
| 5 | It had become a narrow , word-spinning sect . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It had become a worldwide traded commodity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It had become a familiar sound over the last couple of days . |
| 10 | It had become a political hot potato , and time ran out as backers bickered over what tests to run . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Soon it had become a continuous deluge as if countless buckets of black ink were being emptied from the sky above them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | By the second century B.C. it had become a large square surrounded by imposing buildings . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The observation that it had become a sick bag is credited to … |
| 21 | And there were calls for the theatre to close as it had become a big drain on local council finances . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In one regrettable case , which I myself witnessed , it had become an established sport in the house for guests to ring for the butler and put to him random questions of the order of , say , who had won the Derby in such and such a year , rather as one might to a Memory Man at the music hall . |
| 24 | The ‘ public ’ which frequented it had become an amorphous mass . |
| 25 | It had become an oppressive force , felt by citizens to be distant , beyond control and beyond comprehension . |
| 26 | It comes as no coincidence that Juan , who first pioneered electro in the early '80s as part of Cybertron before making the first Detroit records on Model 500 , took his hiatus from the arena when it had become an overcrowded circus . |
| 27 | James Hadley , writing his will in 1532 , remembered the church as one of Somerset 's ‘ holy places ’ , and by the late eighteenth century it had become the frequent destination of topographical writers who came searching for the romantically sublime . |
| 28 | It had become the regular haunt of hearty working men with fearsome bottom cleavage , who shared an appreciation of small newspapers with big headlines , a moderate spread at an affordable price and a well-turned ankle . |
| 29 | In local elections on Dec. 17 , 1989 [ see also p. 37197 ] , the PSD won 31.46 per cent of the vote ( as compared with 50.2 per cent in the July 1987 general election when it had become the only party in the post-1974 era to secure an absolute parliamentary majority — see pp. 35388-90 ) . |
| 30 | Positivism in turn can be seen as a set of ideas tending to reinforce the ideological domination ( or ‘ hegemony ’ ) of the bourgeois class at a yet later stage when it had become the ruling class in Europe : if criminal actions can be described as the result of mindless pathology rather than rational choice this both absolves capitalism of any blame for crime and helps to delegi-timize protest against the existing order ( Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 2 ) . |