Example sentences of "it became [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the course of that century and with the extension of the Great Northern Coal field it became a mining area . |
| 2 | Its lights sparkled in the shadow of Earth but even as Jezrael watched its approach , Steel City was wheeling its impressive silver network into the full light of the sun and it became a diamond filigree that flashed like a new-born star . |
| 3 | The land went the way of so much other land in America — it became a parking lot . |
| 4 | One on-set photographer was quoted as saying : ‘ It became a standing joke that Kylie could be heard saying : ‘ Charlie 's right ’ . ’ |
| 5 | It became a standing joke that we would eventually work together , and then one day it became serious . |
| 6 | ‘ It became a standing joke that if Steve walked into an office and the phone went within a couple of minutes , it meant the Duchess had tracked him down , ’ a business colleague recalls . |
| 7 | Uncle used to tease him about it and it became a standing joke . ’ |
| 8 | The discovery led to the migration of iron works from the small forges of the south-east and elsewhere to the coalfields of the Midlands and the north , because it became a mass-production industry . |
| 9 | Evidence of human occupation here goes back to the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods ( Early and Middle Stone Ages ) but its period of greatest activity was in the Late Iron Age , from roughly 100 BC to 50 AD , when it became a trading centre and port for people and goods from the Continent . |
| 10 | Indeed , these were , according to some local historians , Bayonne 's very best years , when it became a trading centre of European stature . |
| 11 | The prince used to tease her about her efforts to get people taught to read and write ; it became a household joke , Constanza joining with her father , though she herself was much taken by Fabian Socialism as a girl . |
| 12 | This was the only Nonconformist chapel Butterfield ever designed and in 1976 it became a parish church . |
| 13 | It is believed that long before it became a market town , serving a largely agricultural community , it was the ancient Roman port of Vannona , which was supposed to have been the principal harbour on this coast . |
| 14 | The region where women ca n't vote in the local elections , and seats on the council depend on how a show of hands looks to the official in charge , is also the region where men were wearing a ring in the right ear long before it became a youth fashion elsewhere . |
| 15 | I watched her walk back down the steps , and the wind flipped her loose cardigan so that it became a swansdown shawl . |
| 16 | Subsequently , it became a department store and a bridal veil factory before Peter Brant , owner of Interview and Art in America , embarked upon its renovation . |
| 17 | After lying deserted it became a timber factory for a while in the 1960s . |
| 18 | This was well before it became a tourist attraction , when it was still a fruit and veg market . |
| 19 | A GRITTY , realistic approach to Vietnam with Burt Lancaster as the commanding officer becoming cynical about the war in 1964 , long before it became a media affair . |
| 20 | It was at this time that the Club first negotiated to use the cricket field for ‘ tuition ’ and it became an overflow car park in 1966 . |
| 21 | The existing building dates from the 1740s when it became an oil mill for linseed In 1808 it was bought by the British Copper Company and was used for producing copper sheets In 1860 it was purchased by the East London Water Company and rebuilt as a pumping station . |
| 22 | In Roman times it became the capital city of the province of Asia and the principal port for all of south-west Anatolia . |
| 23 | Until the 1820s it rose and fell over a succession of steep hills and deep valleys but when it became the London–Holyhead road sections were totally rebuilt by Thomas Telford . |
| 24 | When it was sold it became the village hall at Bishop Wilton . |
| 25 | It became the conversation cornerstone for the couple of days leading up to it . |
| 26 | The championship renamed yet again in 1986 when it became The Sports-Prototype World Championship , for both drivers and teams . |
| 27 | It became the coronation seat of the emperors . |
| 28 | It became the Winston Cup in 1970 following sponsorship by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company . |
| 29 | In later years , it became the Stroud Piano Company and later Bentley Pianos . |
| 30 | He was president of the Newcastle Chemical Society ( 1871–2 ) and a vice-president until 1882 , when it became the Newcastle section of the Society of Chemical Industry , in which he continued to take an active interest . |