Sentence examples for became rather than from inspiring English sources
His story of a Gypsy drug dealer threatened with eviction from his caravan in a Wiltshire wood became, rather than drowning in over-ambitious "Themes", fantastically mercurial.
Nonetheless, bad boy he became rather than a corporate lawyer.
They seemed to express pride in the largely multiracial, multicultural nation that Britain has become, rather than an imperial past.
"If you look at Blackbaud, this is more what we aim to become, rather than a payment processor who takes a cut from donations akin to JustGiving.
It had become rather more than a mere distraction.
As it is, United have become rather more than a football club".
Jesus was a man who became divine, rather than God become man.
The model became pretty, rather than austerely aloof.
The analogy, however, was pushed too far, and became doctrinal rather than merely useful.
Pope Gregory VII (1073 85) rigorously attacked the problem, and the practice again became occasional rather than normal.
