Example sentences of "[vb past] become a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately for us both , Dulcie had become a star both in theatre and films . |
| 2 | 1952 solution was adopted because it reflected what had become a more theologically certain position on the matter . |
| 3 | By 1946 , Ghatak had become a Marxist activist , this was the year that the communal rioting leading up to Partition began in earnest . |
| 4 | Dorothy , I realized , had become a problem , and I resented that . |
| 5 | Her bedroom had become a nest . |
| 6 | The observer had become a diagnostician ; he was fast becoming a prophet . |
| 7 | By 1983 the SLOA Pullman Scenic Land Cruise had become a series of oneand two-day charter trains with overnight hotel accommodation , embracing a variety of destinations — but most significantly , the Scottish rail routes to Mallaig , Oban , Inverness and Kyle of Lochalsh . |
| 8 | Today they had become a real sun-trap and it was a relief to swop the white , rocky desert for the subdued greens and browns of heather and grass which sweep across The Allotment up towards Simon Fell , its flanks scarred by the pale slash of Ingleborough 's eastern approach track . |
| 9 | In a profession often noted for self-promotion and expediency she had become a trusted friend , hostess and shoulder to lean on for many . |
| 10 | And he made a number of management changes which reinforced the impression that Eurotunnel had become a company capable of acting in the best interests of bankers and shareholders and standing up to the demands of the Anglo-French contracting consortium . |
| 11 | However , Mr Waldegrave did concede that many abuses were ending , and the human rights provisions of the Helsinki agreement had become a useful yardstick to measure Soviet behaviour . |
| 12 | By 1959 , the 1.7-square mile site had become a small industrial town in its own right and production peaked at 470,000 cars , trucks and tractors . |
| 13 | ‘ I had become a strong swimmer mainly to conquer fear . ’ |
| 14 | Colonel Dawson , Officer commanding No. 4 Commando , had become a casualty and had been evacuated to England . |
| 15 | At least a portion of the jewish population was saving its skin by allying with the Party , for in April we discover 400 Jewish delegates in Minsk speeding up the fight against Zionism and proposing the closure of their religious schools in Belorussia , a notion which had become a reality by September according to the central press . |
| 16 | The British in 1979 were poised between a reverence for old historic symbols which had provided order and cohesion over the centuries , and an uneasy awareness that such reverence had become a recipe for immobilism and devotion to the outdated totems of the past . |
| 17 | Since the heady days of Henson it had become a duller and more local object . |
| 18 | He had become a ‘ vitalizing ’ force . |
| 19 | For Mailer , Lawrence 's greatness lies in part in his heroic struggle against his destiny , which was to be homosexual : ‘ he had become a man by an act of will , he was bone and blood of the classic family stuff out of which homosexuals are made , he had lifted himself out of his natural destiny which was probably to have the sexual life of a woman ’ ( p. 154 ) . |
| 20 | This issue was first raised as early as 1941 , and by 1943–4 had become a subject of major concern for the British government , aware that unless rules were laid down in advance , the United States would use its enormous wealth , undamaged industrial capability , and the advantages obtained during the war years to drive Britain and other countries off the international air routes . |
| 21 | The Committee reported in December 1942 , by which time it had become a part of the larger Cabinet Committee on Reconstruction problems . |
| 22 | So by a collusive accident Phoebe had become a gardener . |
| 23 | When she had become a teenager however , she had more time alone , and when she was alone it was so much harder to remember . |
| 24 | She suddenly realised she had passed from the survival phase to a phase where she could see that The Body Shop had become a retailing institution that was going from strength to strength . |
| 25 | They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges . |
| 26 | Labour , in other words , had become a commodity and capitalist relationships had been established in Manupur . |
| 27 | For some time before this heavy clouds had increased and in the west the sky had become a dense purplish-black , a range of mountainous cumulus against which the outlines of buildings took on a curious clarity and the trees stood out livid and sickly bright . |
| 28 | The meadow grass he had compared to a tapestry had since that earlier walk been cut and the land had become a pale stubbly desert . |
| 29 | Perhaps in one sense it does not matter that he ignored the sometimes vandalistic assaults on the gospel texts by Form-critics and Redaction-critics ; just as it could be seen not to matter that the school of philosophy in which he was reared had been rendered more or less obsolete by the man who — in the year that Lewis was writing The Problem of Pain — had become a professor of philosophy at Cambridge : Ludwig Wittgenstein . |
| 30 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |