Example sentences of "it [vb past] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It had become a question of the district committee 's prestige ; they were determined to use any weapon ready to their hand to vindicate their authority , and grossly abused the quite frightening powers at their command . ’ |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
4 | By the third quarter of the century , it had become a dye works , producing dyestuffs from logwood . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Its academic success had been such that it had become progressively less progressive , its original zeal swamped by the fee-paying prosperous solid Northern conservatism of parents and offspring : it had become a bastion of respectability , its one-time principles upheld by stray survivors like Doddridge , who appeared blithely not to notice that at election time the entire school , with one or two flamboyant exceptions , howled its enthusiasm for the Tory Party . |
7 | Often , in those anguished and bewildered days as Miss Russell began to impose a new regime , it had become a sanctuary . |
8 | The Committee reported in December 1942 , by which time it had become a part of the larger Cabinet Committee on Reconstruction problems . |
9 | I stopped going after six months because I felt I 'd resolved my immediate problem , and it had become a drag and an effort , largely because I had a problem with the silences . |
10 | It had become a joke between them ; he had said something similar when she told him she was off to Milan . |
11 | Soviet authorities persecuted the Lithuanian Catholic Church more harshly than those in the other Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia — which the Pope is also visiting — because it had become a rallying point against the communist government . |
12 | It had become a creation of the press and not of himself . |
13 | I went on following : it had become a habit . |
14 | But with the decline of France , Italy and Germany from great power status it had become a power vacuum . |
15 | Yet it had become a point of honour not to tell him about Lori . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | It had become a sort of one-off adventurer and then after '79 it took on another role again . |
19 | It had become a paper dart . |
20 | And so began a friendship that before Ellie knew it had become a courtship . |
21 | By 1729 , it had become a cloth mill worked as tenant by Edward Peach . |
22 | Then it was a corn mill but , by the 16th century , it had become a cloth mill , presumably used for fulling . |
23 | By the early 1980s it had become a matter of faith . |