Example sentences of "it become [det] " in BNC.

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1 It became such a tame pet afterwards that she could never persuade it to play dead again , even if she grabbed it as though she were a predator .
2 It became such a success that further developments were needed .
3 The third National Government followed upon the resignation of the Liberal ministers and of the free trader , Snowden , in September 1932 , after which it became little more than a Conservative government , with the adhesion of a few ex-Labour and Liberal politicians , all owing their seats to an electoral pact with the Conservatives .
4 Within the Council there were no surprises or novelties about the Committee of Ministers : with each state having one vote and a veto , it became little more than an intergovernmental conference of foreign ministers meeting twice yearly .
5 It became more of a defensive round , seldom in positions from which he could attack the hole and three-putting both the 11th and 15th .
6 It became more than a family home but a working farm and , they hoped , an inspirational headquarters for their international design empire .
7 But having had some estimates for that , it became inappropriate to , it became more cost effective to replace the entire pipe with a wider diameter pipe .
8 But as time went on , it became less of a joke .
9 It seemed to float above the town , particularly when one approached from the south , from the flats , and as you climbed Steep Hill and came nearer , so it became less of a mirage and more of a stone reality .
10 Similarly , if debts due to the company are subject to a floating charge , the interest of the floating charge holder will be subject to any lien or set off that the company creates with respect to the charged assets prior to crystallisation , for a floating charge is not regarded for this purpose as an immediate assignment of the chose in action , it becomes such only on crystallisation .
11 ‘ Even as a tree has a single trunk , but many branches and leaves , so there is one true and perfect Religion , but it becomes many .
12 and it becomes that .
13 But but small movement a little bit of movement around and some people did as we 'll see when we look at the video this afternoon , but some people you know grew roots er it becomes that way .
14 Obviously , if a party changes its central principles , it becomes another party .
15 They use instinct and spontaneity and when they practise something , they do so for the enjoyment it produces and thus it becomes more of a game than a practice .
16 It is natural to walk or run them and anyone who has done this will know that it becomes more of a rhythmic dance when perfectly attuned .
17 Questioned more closely on how he gets his sound — for instance , the mind-boggling tone for the slide solo on the Pahinuis ' versh of Steve Earle 's My Old Friend The Blues — it becomes more and more apparent that the unassuming , virtually ego-free Mr. Cooder is far happier discussing musicians other than himself …
18 Water also has a melting point and a boiling point much higher than would be expected from its formula and it becomes more fluid with increasing temperature .
19 It becomes more and more difficult to master this immense complexity which the medium offers .
20 The system works excellently over short distances but as the length of the tube increases , so it becomes more and more inefficient .
21 if you question you might actually find that there 's some good thing or , or at least the people might find that there 's some good things in it so it 's then er it becomes more of a threat then to the capitalist world
22 It becomes more and more necessary for professionals to know about finance , management ( including self-management ) and even marketing .
23 As work continues it becomes more and more obvious how difficult and complex a task this is .
24 At first this premise may seem difficult to accept , but as he maps the argument it becomes more and more plausible .
25 You have up here you 've got neither win lose but it 's like it 's a respectable thing you know you respect each other you do n't trust them completely and you do n't co-operate completely but they just respect just not you 're just not willing to go that further little bit and it becomes more of a more of a rather than a win lose or a win win it 's more of a people half and half okay I 'll give this much if you give that much .
26 Most of us would like to think of growing old gracefully , enjoying the years of retirement , surrounded by family and friends … but as we get older , it becomes more and more difficult to get about and meet others .
27 It becomes less and less feasible to equate the relative contraction of the industrial proletariat with the relative expansion of the ‘ middle class ’ .
28 However , while it is possible to discount the efficiency consequences at low rates of tax , it becomes less and less easy to do so as the rates of tax get higher .
29 Although the , the hub of the sails is more or less in the centre of this photograph it 's not in sent not in the sense of , of the area of vision because you 've got a lot of dark area here so that tends to move the centre of vision so it becomes this bit , if you like , and so that 's not in the centre there .
30 If this book assists those who read it to become more ‘ research minded ’ it will have achieved its objective .
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