Example sentences of "it become the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This could be done more effectively if the law was changed so that it became the jury 's responsibility to assess only the actual damage to the plaintiff and the judge 's responsibility to impose an unlimited fine on the defendants according to his view of their culpability .
2 Later it became the slogan of those struggling for equal justice for all .
3 It became the armoury then and er we used to do guard duty on the armoury every night there was someone on guard duty .
4 His interest in education was reflected in his active role in founding University College , Liverpool , in 1881 : when it became the University of Liverpool in 1903 he was elected pro-chancellor .
5 When the housing market collapsed , it appears that this property was affected because it became the subject of a forced sale .
6 Restored to its original appearance , it became the centrepiece of the Tussaud Museum 's ‘ Napoleon Room ’ created in 1834 to house her collection of Napoleonic relics .
7 It became the head of navigation where they unloaded their cargoes .
8 In 1949 it became the capital of the Federal Republic which grew out of the amalgamation of the French , British and American zones of occupation .
9 Indeed reason would infer the existence of a wall , especially if the town became a civitas capital , and even more so if it became the capital of the late-formed province of Valentia .
10 In Roman times it became the capital city of the province of Asia and the principal port for all of south-west Anatolia .
11 Until the 1820s it rose and fell over a succession of steep hills and deep valleys but when it became the London–Holyhead road sections were totally rebuilt by Thomas Telford .
12 When it was sold it became the village hall at Bishop Wilton .
13 Along with other actions it became the springboard towards legislative change in Ireland .
14 It became the Chancellor 's habit to interrupt his morning procession to work for a few minutes of Cabinet Room conversation with the Prime Minister .
15 It became the headquarters and shop window of the movement .
16 It became the Parents ' National Education Union in 1892 as branches developed in several cities .
17 It became the conversation cornerstone for the couple of days leading up to it .
18 The AWB was retained and the NUAW ( it became the NUAAW in 1968 ) remained firmly wedded to improving the conditions of its membership through such statutory channels .
19 It became the factory of the newly-founded Decca Record Company within eighteen months .
20 Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth .
21 During the Second World War Petwood was requisitioned by the R.A.F. and it became the Officer 's Mess for 617 Squadron , better known as ‘ The Dambusters ’ , after their bombings of the Mohne and Eder dams .
22 Now it became the problem of a class .
23 In 1989 , it became the law for children under 14 to be restrained in the rear seats of cars .
24 If once Romania was Ceauşescu , now it became the couple .
25 It became the defence of peace and culture from the warmongering philistinism of fascism .
26 The championship renamed yet again in 1986 when it became The Sports-Prototype World Championship , for both drivers and teams .
27 Something happened to political life in Britain when it became the preserve of professionals .
28 Baxter 's old congregation in Kidderminster was typical of many former Puritan congregations in that it became the scene of a Unitarian split during the 18th .
29 After Stalin 's fall it became the Road of the Heroes and then was changed to the Road of Youth .
30 It became the mark of the true revolutionary that he should allow no personal feeling , no moral scruple to soften his commitment to revolutionary ideology .
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