Example sentences of "it [adv] became the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only became the grandest villa when Henry Pease bought it and began work . |
| 2 | Hence Jacobitism , the belief that James II and his heirs were the rightful rulers of Scotland ( and possibly England as well ) took far deeper root in Scotland than England , where it soon became the mere dream of a few impractical romantics . |
| 3 | It thus became the eukaryotic cell . |
| 4 | It also became the largest city in Western Europe , with walls enclosing an area of no fewer than 483 acres . |
| 5 | It also became the first government since 1974 to serve a full four-year term ; a general election was due in October 1991 . |
| 6 | Other countries soon welcomed the breed , including several in South America and southern Africa , and it later became the first foreign breed to be imported by Japan . |
| 7 | Dick was describing the first flight of the fifth airworthy Hurricane in the world on the day that it tragically became the fourth . |
| 8 | It then became the USAC National Championship and since 1979 , following the formation of CART , the CART National Championship . |
| 9 | It ill became the English king , who was sovereign in his own country , to behave as a vassal towards his French suzerain , and the French king had great difficulty in controlling the behaviour of a vassal who was also a sovereign . |