Example sentences of "[prep] become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This popular prime-time , Sunday evening CBS network show provided Reagan for eight years with ‘ a vehicle for becoming familiar to a whole new generation of young people who would later vote for him . |
| 2 | She was immediately annoyed with herself for becoming defensive . |
| 3 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 4 | This is the very reason a member of the steering group gave for becoming involved in the project : ‘ It gives me something else to do , gets me out of the factory [ adult training centre ] and is less boring . ’ |
| 5 | Blame me for becoming poor if you like — I admit , I blew it — but the responsibility for the way our society treats its poorer members is not exclusively mine . |
| 6 | She would never have forgiven herself for feeling it , nor him for becoming aware of it . |
| 7 | This chapter addresses two questions : first , how important temporary jobs are as a step into employment for unemployed people ; second , to what extent the ending of temporary jobs is an important reason for becoming unemployed ? |
| 8 | That exposure to extreme communism , which included Stalin dispatching Fred Koch 's chauffeur to Siberia for becoming infected by Western ideas , prompted Koch 's father to swing to rabid right-wing beliefs . |
| 9 | Firstly , my apologies for becoming angry yesterday . |
| 10 | We may even do this through becoming ill , working ourselves into the ground or suppressing our own needs in order to care for others . |
| 11 | I have n't been referred to a rheumatologist , as I 've been told that I 'm very young and prone to worrying too much about becoming disabled . |
| 12 | This year 's annual report talks about becoming profitable ‘ as soon as possible , to ensure growth and a sound future for employees and suppliers ’ . |
| 13 | This leads to a bigger surge of anxiety , we become anxious about becoming anxious . |
| 14 | Talking to their mates about British blacks , they tended to complain about becoming second-class citizens in their own country . |
| 15 | Bill Thorneycroft ( born 1926 ) , Jeffrey Weeks ( born 1945 ) and Mark Sreeves ( born 1958 ) talk about becoming gay , about gay male identity , about gay male relationships and about the gay male community . |
| 16 | It is thus automatically kept up-to-date and , providing you were not underinsured to start with , you need no longer worry about becoming underinsured as a result of inflation . |
| 17 | Clinicians , most notably , have been guarded in their enthusiasm about becoming embroiled in management . |
| 18 | Because much management data is used for descriptive purposes , showing present or past situations , rather than trying to make predictions , it is worth becoming adept at presenting statistical material in simple visual ways that others can readily understand . |
| 19 | After becoming estranged from Kim Dae Jung following their inability to agree upon a single candidate to oppose Roh Tae Woo in the 1987 presidential contest , in 1990 he led his opposition party into an amalgamation with Roh 's ruling party to form the DLP . |
| 20 | Three months after becoming prime minister , he is already putting in place a vast programme to privatise the state-owned businesses that have been a drag on the country since they were nationalised by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in the early 1970s . |
| 21 | ‘ The work goes on , one week like another , and pretty incessant until Friday night , and then the break which gives one time to get one 's breath again , ’ he wrote to his mother two months after becoming Prime Minister . |
| 22 | After becoming involved with the Working Men 's College , established by Frederick Maurice [ q.v. ] in 1854 , Elizabeth Malleson was inspired to found a counterpart for women . |
| 23 | Bessie Parkes , a committee member , bought a printing-press and , after becoming familiar with its work , Emily Faithfull decided to open a printing office for women compositors , engaging Austin Holyoake , the brother of George Jacob Holyoake [ q.v. ] , to advise her . |
| 24 | Nigel screams with delight as he revels in the applause after becoming new world champion Picture : ARNOLD SLATER |
| 25 | The interest provision should in fact interrelate with the " period of grace " provision and a suggested formula is 2 per cent above base lending rate if payment is not made within 14 days after becoming due or 3 per cent above if not made within 21 days . |
| 26 | 9.1.1 The rents ( or any of them or any part of them ) under this Lease are outstanding for [ 14 days ] after becoming due whether formally demanded or not |
| 27 | But another theory was that the bomber dumped the device after becoming nervous about possible discovery on his way to plant it elsewhere . |
| 28 | In 1920 , embarrassingly soon after becoming naval aide-de-camp to George V , Sinclair was divorced . |
| 29 | After becoming pregnant , she made arrangements to take maternity leave from November 1990 to February 1991 . |
| 30 | According to legend , St Enoch , mother of Glasgow 's patron St Mungo , was cast adrift in the Forth after becoming pregnant out of wedlock . |