Example sentences of "had become a symbol " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble was that the old meeting-house had become a symbol of religious and cultural isolation . |
| 2 | The stream had become a symbol . |
| 3 | After serving as US permanent representative at the UN , Young had spent two terms as mayor of Atlanta , an eight-year period during which the city had been transformed into a magnet for domestic and foreign investment and had become a symbol of the " New South " . |
| 4 | Motoshima had become a symbol of the right of free expression after he survived an assassination attempt by a right-wing nationalist in January 1990 . |
| 5 | The former Archbishop of Prague , Cardinal Frantisek Tomasek , who under Communist rule had become a symbol of the struggle for religious freedom , died on Aug. 4 aged 93 , of heart failure complicated by pneumonia . |