Example sentences of "become [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Queries of the type ‘ Are there ? ’ or ‘ How many ? ’ become simple if the information is held in the index . |
| 2 | It is likely that some degree of unity could have been achieved between them had not Mrs Webb become convinced that the division was irreconcilable and determined to make every effort to bring her proposals to fruition . |
| 3 | High standards of accuracy become important if the investigator is going to employ sophisticated methods of analysing the flight recording , such as making a double integration of the vertical acceleration recording to obtain an accurate description of the shape of the flight-path perpendicular to the pitch attitude . |
| 4 | One of the major stumbling blocks in the criminal prosecution of corporations and their officials is that costs to the state become excessive as the case is stretched out for endless months and sometimes years . |
| 5 | Soon they become aware that the train is engaged on a steady climb , this section being popularly known as the Long Drag ; beyond Horton in Ribblesdale Station interest tends to flag a little as the outlook from the windows becomes more austere on the pull up to Ribblehead . |
| 6 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |