Sentence examples for had virtually become from inspiring English sources

By the end of the 17th century it had virtually become indistinguishable from its Polish counterpart.

After interviewing the president at considerable length, Bob Woodward said those instincts had virtually become the object of a White House religion.

We eventually grew so impressed with our geese — they had virtually become family friends — that we gave the remaining ones to a local park.

And this weekend, energized by frustrations with what had virtually become a one-party state, voters turned out in heavy numbers.

"Whereas in the 19th century a very real distinction could be made between the vernacular and standard diction as they were used in prose," Bridgman wrote, "in the 20th century the vernacular had virtually become standard".

In the fourth round she had saved a match point against Maria Sharapova, and she repeated that great escape against Elena Dementieva in a section of the draw that had virtually become the Russian national championship.

"Involved ownership of equities has virtually become irrelevant".

"Patriotism has virtually become part of our blood," he added.

In the past decade, Chechnya has virtually become a separate Islamic state under Mr Kadyrov's rule.

The problem is that a promise not to raise taxes has virtually become a condition of being a Republican elected official.

This is a standard most congressmen probably could not meet.Trying to guess the amount of extra money the court will mandate has virtually become an industry in itself.