Example sentences of "it become an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The publicity generated by the government 's efforts to ban the book ensured that it became an instant bestseller . |
| 2 | A policeman ran past the poet trying to get to the crowd before it became an unruly mob . |
| 3 | It became an essential research tool in the early quest for controlled thermonuclear fusion , helped to clarify the scope of the problem of heating , containing and controlling the deuterium fuel , and set the parameters for the development of the subsequent fusion research programme . |
| 4 | In the classical period , especially under Rome , it became an accepted means of satisfying the blood lust of the plebs by the chase and slaughtering of animals in the arena . |
| 5 | Over the years it became an ecological Salient . |
| 6 | The Council was merely an umbrella organization for a large and expanding number of countryside and amenity organizations , but it became an invaluable integrator , particularly on the issue of National Parks when it set up its own Standing Committee . |
| 7 | It became an impersonal , distant , uncaring , social and welfare service . |
| 8 | It became an aloof , lonely personal fight to make the grade . |
| 9 | It became an annual event and a major source of Army income , with the public soon being asked to share in the exercise . |
| 10 | It became an occasional residence . |
| 11 | Furthermore , ever since it became an independent department it has wanted to stop being merely a postman between the Treasury and the recipients of funds , and aspires instead to set the policy framework . |
| 12 | It started out as a little ripple in the sea then it became an enormous wave it rose into the air then smashed against the breaker , the breaker broke into two . |
| 13 | It became an important building as the burial place for the kings of Sweden . |
| 14 | it became an American native wigwam . |
| 15 | At what point erm did i er did it become an official dispute , how how at the point of becoming an official dispute ? |
| 16 | Liberal commitment to free speech must also be tested in this way , lest it become an unthinking orthodoxy — a mere article of faith . |
| 17 | Thus if there is a geographical barrier , so that the two populations never meet , it becomes an arbitrary matter whether or not we group the populations into a single species . |
| 18 | Now I say , that that is an intellectual exercise , as soon as it becomes an emotional exercise |
| 19 | ‘ Assessment is not in question ; it is when it becomes an automatic and unvaried process that it loses its value both for teacher and pupil . ’ |
| 20 | She has no sense of her own sexuality — which stimulates the clerk — or of the value of her sexuality : though promised to her husband it becomes an easy counter to pay on the threat of being changed into an animal . |
| 21 | The Spirit who inspired their writing is perfectly well capable of taking some part of them and writing it on our hearts so that it becomes an inescapable pointer to a particular course of action . |
| 22 | This has even been a criticism of ( or objection to ) the use of conditional funds from the IMF , unless it becomes an absolute necessity for economic survival . |
| 23 | It becomes an integral part of lesson planning , and the students can use the board to develop their own teaching expertise . |
| 24 | Silicon Graphics has signed a letter of intent to buy 10% of Control Data Systems once it becomes an independent company . |
| 25 | Thus , AEA is now beginning to contemplate a future in which it becomes an independent business , and its management is excited by the prospect . |
| 26 | It becomes an important part of tactics on upwind legs as you get to higher standards . |
| 27 | With such large adsorption heats indicating a very strong interaction , it becomes an important consideration whether the C-O bond is sufficiently weakened to produce dissociative adsorption . |
| 28 | Once a micro computer is connected into a shared data base , it becomes an intelligent terminal , capable of carrying out some functions , such as data entry standalone , but thereafter used to interrogate the shared information , alongside conventional visual displays . |
| 29 | It becomes an inevitable part of normal living that we form significant relationships with particular individuals for a period of time and then , often through force of circumstance , move away from those same relationships . |
| 30 | From then on it becomes an arctic scene . |