Example sentences of "he have become [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God 's love for and claim on man are worked out through a judgement and condemnation which disclose a profound alienation and estrangement between man and God , a contradiction in which man has attempted to break away from the tie with God , so that God 's claim on him has become a consuming fire . |
| 2 | He has become a famous dramatist , and the two brothers have n't spoken for a decade , as Alfred feels Michael has betrayed the family by travestying them in his plays . |
| 3 | To Orcs he has become a great hero whose spirit stands beside the gods Gork and Mork in battle . |
| 4 | He has become a real Telford native . |
| 5 | The horror depicted in Kafka 's Metamorphosis , in which a man awakens to discover that he has become a large insect , invites comparison with the norms of women 's existence — her passages from childhood to puberty , from mature womanhood to menopause and old age ; her experience of pregnancy . |
| 6 | Although he describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk , he has become an international figure , touring the world to give talks and also meeting many world leaders , dignitaries and religious figures . |
| 7 | He has become an expendable symbol of the 21 years lost by Czechoslovaks since the invasion of August 1968 , for he had taken over , apparently without compunction , from Mr Alexander Dubcek as Communist Party leader when the latter was humiliated at the beginning of 1969 . |
| 8 | In his resignation letter Sununu informed President George Bush that , owing to " distorted perceptions " , he had become a political liability and did not wish to jeopardize the President 's chances of re-election in 1992 . |
| 9 | He had become a political exile in France in October 1990 , and had made public statements to the effect that he would not return to Albania until democracy had been restored there [ see p. 37792 ] . |
| 10 | He had become a successful Solicitor , and had joined the Board as a representative of the Old Stopfordians in 1949 . |
| 11 | He had become a small tree . |
| 12 | By 1949 he had become a central party figure , often acting as spokesman on minority issues . |
| 13 | He had become a naturalized Englishman , but he never carried his anglophilia to the point of being puritan , or even respectable . |
| 14 | For reasons not apparent he had become a reformed character : he worked diligently and spent long hours in the laboratory . |
| 15 | He had become a small-time mortician , specialising in the beautification — please allow the word ! — of corpses that had died an ugly or disfiguring death . |
| 16 | In 1914 he had become a full-time trade union official rising to the general secretaryship of the Trades Union Congress in the 1920s . |
| 17 | I was sad to see him die , because he had become a good friend . |
| 18 | All the evidence seems to indicate that he had become a half-hearted Anglican — perhaps that was a safer way , after all , of establishing yourself as a respectable tradesman than anything which smacked in any way of revolt or radicalism ? |
| 19 | In 1949 , he had become a Jordanian citizen and in 1954 secured some family money that had been locked in Jaffa bank accounts , making him ‘ not a rich man , but living ’ . |
| 20 | Everybody knew he had become a lame duck . ’ |
| 21 | By now he had become a convinced Zionist . |
| 22 | However , despite his undoubted experience , Crabb 's health was not good , and he had become a heavy smoker and drinker . |
| 23 | Joseph of Arimathaea , a member of the Sanhedrin who was obviously sympathetic to Jesus ( Matthew claims he had become a secret disciple ) , went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus . |
| 24 | In one of his letters to Salt Gandhi wrote that he had become a confirmed vegetarian after reading Salt 's essays published under the title The Logic of Vegetarianism ( 1897 ) . |
| 25 | He had become the representative voice of the nation under threat , and in the early months of 1940 he wrote a patriotic poem , " Defence of the Islands " , to accompany an exhibition of British war photographs at the New York World 's Fair . |
| 26 | From then on his rise was rapid and within three years he had become the supreme influence at Edward 's court . |
| 27 | Good actor that he was , he somehow managed to convey that he had become the dominant figure , that the contest was as good as won . |
| 28 | As he had become an English citizen and relations between ourselves and the Soviet Union were , when he died , a great deal pricklier than they are today , this caused considerable suspicion and distrust among the fiscal authorities of both countries . |
| 29 | By now he had become an enthusiastic car owner and repairer , and with his colleagues he formed the Vintage Sports Car Club . |
| 30 | Safdarjung was the richest and most powerful man in India ; in all but name he had become an independent ruler . |