Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] become [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a family firm with some 2,000 employees in 1966 , the group has grown to become a public company comprising nine factories employing around 6,000 people at home and overseas . |
| 2 | ‘ My children are shunned at school and every member of my family has had to become an accomplished liar , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ACTOR Charlton Heston has agreed to become the new US Chairman of the Duxford-based American Air Museum in Britain Campaign . |
| 4 | Republicanism has failed to become a serious issue in twentieth-century politics . |
| 5 | Polly Harvey may record for a small label called Too Pure , but she has managed to become the rising star of the indie world by tackling issues of sexuality head on . |
| 6 | One of them has escaped from a particularly unusual commitment — he was once an angel , but has chosen to become a human being , for the love of humanity . |
| 7 | Described by Nixon as " a third-rate burglary " , this incident seemed destined to become a mere footnote in history . |
| 8 | Alexander seemed to have become a decisive proponent of reform . |
| 9 | The Hilary of once upon a time would have done it and taken great pleasure in confronting him , but the Hilary of now seemed to have become a spineless coward . |
| 10 | This seemed to have become a permanent condition . |
| 11 | Her lips parted to tell him that it did , but hesitation seemed to have become a periodic tendency , afflicting her like hiccoughs . |
| 12 | War seemed to have become an unusable tool of statecraft . |
| 13 | There were only a handful of other people in the library reference section ; the normal air of peace and quiet one would expect in such a place seemed to have become an unnatural silence . |
| 14 | His will to win has become a compulsive passion , a virtue that makes him a figure of loathing in the eyes of opposition fans . |
| 15 | The model which they developed has become a valued tool of analysis in both academic and professional circles . |
| 16 | THE BUSES AND TAXIS I DETERMINED TO AVOID BECAME A CENTRAL PART OF NEARLY EVERY PAINTING . |
| 17 | The buses and taxis I determined to avoid became a central part of nearly every painting . |
| 18 | THE BUSES AND TAXIS I DETERMINED TO AVOID BECAME A CENTRAL PART OF NEARLY EVERY PAINTING . |
| 19 | The buses and taxis I determined to avoid became a central part of nearly every painting . |
| 20 | ‘ WONDERS ’ appears to have become the principal event in the cultural hub of the Tennessee-Arkansas-Mississippi tri-state region . |
| 21 | Returning to become a partner in his father 's business , he designed his first recorded work , Read Hall near Whalley , Lancashire , in 1818 at the age of twenty-one and quickly appears to have become the principal architect member of the firm , evidently leaving his father to concentrate on the production of marble chimney-pieces and funerary monuments , which were his speciality . |
| 22 | Unfortunately on these occasions , all too often the prick of conscience , if it has operated at all , is instantly suppressed before it can take control , and it is this which appears to have become the normal response . |
| 23 | Attempted suicide appears to have become an acceptable way of expressing distress among some people , and has therefore been likened to a fashion . |
| 24 | ‘ This was the time when the group should have started to become a real group , but it seemed that everybody had an opinion on how the record should sound and we ended up becoming less of a group . |
| 25 | The varied conditions over the week , biasing towards the lighter end , had given the sailors a good range without the Swedish walkover which seems to have become a regular feature of late . |
| 26 | Although the king from time to time forbade ‘ puture ’ — the contributions in money and in kind exacted by the foresters — the levying of puture seems to have become a general practice at least by the fourteenth century . |
| 27 | It 's really about time we tackled Manuela , who seems to have become a recurring reference point in this story . |
| 28 | Industry seems to have become a driving force of strident activity , against which background human beings , the miners , are " like shadows " . |
| 29 | More extensive use of video film and exemplary sentencing may discourage the ultra-violent minority , but the assembling of large mobs of chanting and charging youngsters at the ‘ ends ’ seems to have become an established part of youth culture . |
| 30 | Since Darlington Health Authority 's operational policy document was first drafted and given to committee members last year the goalposts have been moved , and Our wonderful new unit , which thousands of local people have worked so hard to raise money for , seems doomed to become a white elephant , admitting day patients only . |