Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] had become a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Prince Charles must be relieved to be free of a marriage which had become a sham , he , his family and in the end the British Government have met Diana 's terms . |
| 2 | He was a hero who had become a legend . |
| 3 | Over the years she had become a stranger to us , her sisters tending to avoid her ; all but my mother , who still wrote to her at Christmas-time . |
| 4 | By the Ptolemaic Period he had become a god of healing and thus was associated with Imhotep in the Theban temples of Deir el-Medina and Deir el-Bahri . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But Linda had lost her author , she had spent too much effort and money on an event which had become a disaster . |
| 7 | A few years ago , he said , he met an old friend who had become a policeman . |
| 8 | Since 63 b.c. , Israel itself had become a territory of the Roman Empire , forced to acknowledge a secular ruler who — in blasphemous affront to every tenet of Judaism — dared to proclaim himself a god . |
| 9 | A Suitable Boy had been planned as part of a larger whole , a four or five-volume sequence opening in India in the period immediately following Independence and Partition and ending in the present day , when the heroine whose husband was sought in volume one had become a grandmother . |
| 10 | It fell to Joseph Franklin , the Rochdale Manager , to succeed a man who had become a legend in his time , but whose legacy was not an easy one . |
| 11 | The road itself had become a colony of residents specializing in theatrical and allied activities . |
| 12 | But with the decline of France , Italy and Germany from great power status it had become a power vacuum . |
| 13 | Now the British built a steam cathedral on a piece of land which had become a sort of palimpsest of indigenous and alien power . |
| 14 | Once again demonstrating the resilience which had become a characteristic of his candidacy , Clinton campaigned strongly in New York , and even chose it as the venue for his first foreign policy speech since December . |
| 15 | For just a short time I had become a part of the village community on a day that ‘ introduces everybody to everybody else ’ . |
| 16 | The Committee reported in December 1942 , by which time it had become a part of the larger Cabinet Committee on Reconstruction problems . |