Example sentences of "[noun] it [adv] became " in BNC.
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| 1 | During January it also became clear that both Buchanan and , more especially , David Duke — the third Republican candidate and a former Ku Klux Klan leader — faced increasing difficulties in getting their names entered on to the Republican ballot papers in many states . |
| 2 | There was little mirth among the film crew , least of all from Raymond Cusick whose job it suddenly became to pull a last minute rabbit out of the hat . |
| 3 | Over two or three days it suddenly became malign enough to seem a reflection of Bella 's casual slaughter of their lives , and at last he rose in revolt . |
| 4 | In November it also became the birthplace of Rolling Stone magazine . |
| 5 | IN the Great North Forest the other day it quickly became clear that there was a pretty significant absence . |
| 6 | The winner 's conker was then a oner , when it had disposed of two it became a twoer , but if it should then beat a threeer it then became a fiver . |
| 7 | Apart from these difficulties it soon became only too obvious that the drugs could be unexpectedly toxic . |
| 8 | In terms of policy it thus became essential to try to weaken the English grip upon both the sea and the main rivers , such as the Oise , which flowed into the Seine , by seeking to detach the Burgundians from their English links . |
| 9 | ( I was determined to combat in advance any risk of being taken over by G(R) , the Middle East equivalent of S.O.E. , which was already showing signs of being the monstrous and inefficient octopus it later became ; or coming under the control of the Director of Combined Operations . ) |
| 10 | After Spurgeon 's Metropolitan Tabernacle was erected in 1860 at the Elephant and Castle it quickly became one of the sights of London . |
| 11 | When we met in the lounge it rapidly became clear that he was not in his usual good humour . |
| 12 | ‘ Most textile plants are built near a big sewerage plant , not in the middle of the countryside like ours , ’ explained Dai Jones , whose responsibility it soon became to find a means of solving the problem . |
| 13 | In talking of groups it soon became abundantly clear that the young lady to whom the remarks were addressed was mystified . |
| 14 | As the depression began to affect West Coast loadings it soon became clear that it was no longer possible to sustain the level of service provided in the 1974 Glasgow electric timetable . |
| 15 | Refitted as a cinema in the early years of this century it subsequently became a bingo hall and finally a flood-damaged carpet warehouse . |
| 16 | Away from that pulsing artery of East London it suddenly became quiet . |
| 17 | Seto explained quite seriously that when one admired something in a friend 's house it customarily became his . |
| 18 | Anyway Rick spent what seemed like an eternity before he got the fish near the net but when it showed for the first time it soon became apparent why it had been so stubborn , the fish was massive ! |
| 19 | BY THE time it actually became based in Reading in 1971 , the National Jazz , Blues & Rock Festival — as it would soon be known — had begun to epitomise all that was ominous about sitting on an ex-council rubbish tip amidst capricious weather and listening to the sound of the beat boom go bum . |