Example sentences of "[pron] become [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well — that happened to me when my daughter joined the local Brownie Pack ; they were desperate for help and that ‘ couple of hours on a Friday ’ led to my becoming that pack 's Brown Owl , moving to a Guide Company that was in danger of closing and finally becoming District Commissioner administration four Brownie Packs , four Guide Companies and one Ranger Unit . |
| 2 | ‘ Because everyone who comes along to interview me has , as you have Paul , read all the clippings , then they all want to talk about the same things , and I become this kind of caricature . |
| 3 | I become more myself by knowing and loving , and being known and loved by , God the Father , Christ the Son and the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit . |
| 4 | It was not until the early years of the twentieth century that they had devised a formula for their boot polish which was marketed later under the name of ‘ Cherry Blossom Boot Polish ’ which became such a success , being sold at one penny per tin . |
| 5 | We might imagine a project in which a coordinating team was actually hampered by rules of procedure which became such a straitjacket of red tape that , for example , otherwise admirable proposals might be unacceptable on a technicality . |
| 6 | Lieutenant Guss Braden is called in to unravel the mysterious death and finds himself becoming more than professionally interested in Blair . |
| 7 | Warnings of eco-wars and the flight of hundreds of millions of refugees can not be dismissed as fantasies : they are probabilities in situations which become more and more apparent as the century nears its end . |
| 8 | Psychologically , the male-female union as a result of the Jaw of Three is , by nature , extended to include additional considerations which become more complex as the functioning of the relationship changes . |
| 9 | There is a formlessness to the films of the period , which becomes most apparent in such big films as Richardson 's The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1968 ) , which culminates in one of the greatest anti-climaxes of cinema history , or Isadora ( 1969 ) , where the dancer 's sublimely silly death offers a decisive , but hardly stirring , conclusion to the film 's chronological narrative of her stormy loves , ideas about dancing and travels through Europe . |
| 10 | The overweight person 's self-image may also fall , causing a loss of confidence , which becomes another stress . |
| 11 | Examples are our economy , which becomes more and more a credit economy , or our science , in which most scholars must use innumerable results of other scientists which they can not examine . |
| 12 | On leaving Oxford , he was secured the position of honorary attaché at the embassy in Tokyo in 1902 , but never allowed himself to become much interested in Far Eastern affairs . |
| 13 | Centre-forward Tom White was Manager Bert Head 's primary target at Pittodrie , but he brought John McCormick back with him as well from the Granite City for a mere £1,500 — and it was the craggy defender who became such a staunch and resolute pillar of Palace rearguards and helped guide the club through to 1st Division security . |
| 14 | It was , in fact , the professional warrener , the man who became each estate 's killing machine , who perfected the various sporting methods that exist today and who honed them to their maximum effectiveness . |
| 15 | But one of the ironies of life in the border districts was that it also produced Poles who became more German the more nearly they were incorporated into the Polish state , and Poles and Jews whose political opinions were so far to the right that only their ethnic , religious or national identity stood between them and the Nazi Party . |
| 16 | He replaces Andrew Harriman , of Harlequins , who became another flu victim . |
| 17 | He replaces Andrew Harriman , of Harlequins , who became another flu victim . |
| 18 | There were at this point no apparent difficulties experienced between the majority of estate members and no significant source of conflict , that is until the question of a multi-denominational school itself became such a source . |
| 19 | As you become more and more aware of these little imperfections , you take a look at the kind of life you 're living . |
| 20 | so that you become more |
| 21 | Dressing often becomes a battle at this time , as you try to hurry the process by helping where help is n't wanted and she becomes more and more frustrated when her leg goes in the wrong hole or the jumper ends up back to front . |
| 22 | Then , like a host who becomes most animated when his guests are leaving , this leader of the campaign against garrulousness gave me succinct directions to Old Aberdeen . |
| 23 | By creating a peaceful space within your life , you will begin to tap a source of self-healing , an energy that will enable you to become much more in control of life . |
| 24 | How will this particular goal help you to become more of who you are ? |
| 25 | ‘ We became such a strong unit and the experience was very binding . |
| 26 | There is also the thought that we are inheritors of the previous three ages and that we become all that they have been . |
| 27 | How can we possibly retain that self-reliance and confidence if we become more and more a nation of programmed consumers , stuffed with the produce of an automated technology over which we feel we can have little influence ? |
| 28 | Through relaxing and stilling the mind , sinking beneath the constant chatter of the conscious self , we become more and more receptive to the whispers from our Higher Self . |
| 29 | Moreover , if we bring to this common confusion the elementary historical observation that these presumptive classes of ‘ art ’ and ‘ sub-art ’ or ‘ non-art ’ tend to shift ( all novels , once , would have been in the downgrading classes ; particular classes of novel , for example ‘ science fiction ’ , move from one side of the divide to another , or are straddled across it ; cinema films are ‘ commercial popular culture ’ but then some films are ‘ high art ’ ) , we become more and more certain that we must refuse that beguiling invitation to leave aside ‘ sociological categories ’ and move to ‘ the works of art themselves ’ . |
| 30 | Is it so important that we become more than platonic lovers ? ’ |