Example sentences of "[adv] become [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bolsheviks had suddenly become exposed to the full blast of inter-state competition . |
| 2 | Dotrice , who comes from a showbusiness family — her father is actor Roy — had been acting since childhood and soon became known as the long-suffering wife of television 's most disaster-prone character . |
| 3 | Dositej entered the Hopovo monastery in the Fruška Gora at the age of sixteen , but he soon became disillusioned with the restricted life of a monk and two years later he escaped . |
| 4 | They thus became excluded from the social networks of employed people which are vital for job-acquisition ( Callender , 1986a ) . |
| 5 | For one thing , the negative associations of blackness with impurity , evil , misery and dirt had already become established in the English language , partly through the colour symbolism of Christian doctrine ( James , 1981 ; Dabydeen , 1985a ) . |
| 6 | He very quickly became embedded in the Royal College . |
| 7 | In the years when Hartley was building Albert Dock and other extensions of the system , Liverpool was rapidly becoming established as the second most important port in Britain , and Albert Dock , which has outlived its usefulness , stands as a monument both to Hartley and to Liverpool 's Victorian prosperity . |
| 8 | On his death ten years later , he was succeeded as leader of the community by one of his companions , Abu Bakr , who later became seen as the first of a line of caliphs ( khulafa in Arabic ) . |
| 9 | Daily newspapers are now becoming popular , providing the first phase of what will later become known as the mass media . |
| 10 | Small portions of these types of soft coral also become detached from the main colony naturally and it helps to resite these offspring away from the parent colony to avoid competition for light and food which results if they are left too close together . |
| 11 | In the last decade , collectors have also become associated with the illicit export of art objects from the country . |
| 12 | A working group which was debating ways of running a common staff , increasingly became dominated by the apparent overmanning of both papers . |
| 13 | What was it like ? ’ you grandchildren may ask in the future , for the late eighties in Britain might well become known as the second ‘ Belle Epoque ’ . |
| 14 | So all I 'm arguing is that all such a gene for penis envy would have to do would be to promote the reproductive success of the little girls who 've had it to that gene eventually to become established throughout the entire female population , just as the gene for oedipal behaviour , or phallic behaviour , would become selective in males . |
| 15 | The Russians came among the Siberian peoples in the late sixteenth century from two directions , which subsequently became established as the main regular routes . |