Example sentences of "it [vb past] become [art] " 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 | Since the heady days of Henson it had become a duller and more local object . |
| 5 | The Committee reported in December 1942 , by which time it had become a part of the larger Cabinet Committee on Reconstruction problems . |
| 6 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By the third quarter of the century , it had become a dye works , producing dyestuffs from logwood . |
| 10 | By 1729 , it had become a cloth mill worked as tenant by Edward Peach . |
| 11 | Then it was a corn mill but , by the 16th century , it had become a cloth mill , presumably used for fulling . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It had become a creation of the press and not of himself . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It had become a sort of one-off adventurer and then after '79 it took on another role again . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It had become a political hot potato , and time ran out as backers bickered over what tests to run . |
| 18 | I went on following : it had become a habit . |
| 19 | It had become a very sad sight indeed , but Jack hardly noticed as he turned and stared back down the hill to Sakata , its neat rows of buildings looking like so much Lego . |
| 20 | The observation that it had become a sick bag is credited to … |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I suppose it was considered such a terrible thing to say about anyone that it had become a totally taboo concept — even for your worst enemy . |
| 23 | By the early 1980s it had become a matter of faith . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And so began a friendship that before Ellie knew it had become a courtship . |
| 28 | It had become a familiar sound over the last couple of days . |
| 29 | Soon it had become a continuous deluge as if countless buckets of black ink were being emptied from the sky above them . |
| 30 | But with the decline of France , Italy and Germany from great power status it had become a power vacuum . |