Example sentences of "became [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that broke the spell , of course , and the lovely fairy tree became just an ordinary baby fir . |
| 2 | As seen in the preceding chapter , the struggle between Jew and Arab for Palestine became largely an inter-statal one from 1945 onwards . |
| 3 | TV became both an arena in which political discussion is carried on , like the House of Commons or a party meeting , and simultaneously a medium in which politicians could be held to account before the people . |
| 4 | Joyce went on the stage in 1939 — by accident rather than design — and during the next forty years she became both an international entertainer and a national treasure . |
| 5 | Where great houses , from the middle ages into the seventeenth century , had been built to contain a single household in an ordered hierarchy beneath one roof , their classical counterparts in the eighteenth century and Regency became increasingly an expression of stratification into two quite distinct classes , though as yet on nothing like the scale of the grand Victorian house . |
| 6 | Warner accused Jack Fingleton , a professional journalist , of leaking the story , which he denied indignantly , and in fact the incident became almost an obsession with him . |
| 7 | The analysis of local politics became instead an analysis of ‘ urban ’ politics , a change given academic respectability towards the end of the 1970s , when the Political Studies Association changed the name of its Local Politics Group to the Urban Politics Group . |