Example sentences of "it become [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 It became increasingly a political pariah , relegated to a marginal position in society , which could be safely ignored by influential opinion .
2 It became successively a fish market , a cheap restaurant , and finally a store for the London County Council .
3 Of course it became quite a game searching for pairs of initials but I do n't remember finding Alfred 's once . ’
4 And then it became perhaps a troublesome er entity .
5 and er as often as not they were ladies who had been separated or divorced and er they had all , a lot of sort of marital problems and it became almost a , a we welfare of job
6 It became subsequently a very celebrated and gallant defeat indeed , as the subject-matter of the great Anglo-Norman epic of the Chanson de Roland , composed at least 300 years after the event .
7 Its origin , and its method of financing , almost inevitably led to it becoming effectively a horse infirmary .
8 Insistence on this in the early stages of use helps to make it become simply a good habit .
9 It is when the physical phenomenon of soil erosion affects people so that they have to respond and adapt their mode of life that it becomes also a social phenomenon .
10 If she or her children return before the ashes become cold , it becomes again an ahi-ka , but there is a difference of opinion whether the grandchildren can recover their rights in that way , but there is no doubt that the great grandchildren can not do so unless they are expressly invited and welcomed by the tribe . "
11 It is bad enough when parents treat ordinary children as though they were scabs and bunions , but it becomes somehow a lot worse when the child in question is extra -ordinary , and by that I mean sensitive and brilliant .
12 In publicising one 's own methods it becomes only a short step to maintaining that this personal success is general success and can be achieved only through this personal approach .
13 In this case it becomes less a matter of addressing contemporary political problems than of resisting institutional power , namely those critical readings which have recently claimed cultural hegemony , and of providing instead alternative accounts which insist on heterogeneity and resistance in historical texts .
14 At the secondary-school stage it becomes less a partnership between all three and more a matter for the individual student and his or her advisers , whether from inside the school or outside .
15 At work there is a great deal of empiricism — sometimes it becomes almost a mystique , as in the steel-making process where the head melter was once supposed to be able to tell whether the melt was ‘ done ’ by spitting into it .
16 This means that her reproductive tract will contain a mixture of sperm from several sources and it becomes almost a matter of chance as to which particular male 's sperm fertilizes each of her shed eggs .
17 With all this variety it becomes almost a truism to say that families exist in all kinds of human society .
18 They assume that erm it 's very difficult to talk about reality , that reality means different things to different people , that people create in many ways their own reality , and they 're interested in the process therefore of fiction-making , they 're interested in erm how people create their own fictions , so that it becomes almost an endless series of mirrors , novelists writing novels about novelists writing novels and so on .
19 Then the next week you 're adding a horn section , the week after that you 're adding singers , so by that time it becomes quite a big production . ’
20 It 's , it 's not your fault it 's , I mean there are once you get into this topic it becomes quite a big one .
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