Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [adv] become [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Singer went to the Jews ' College School , London , where he subsequently became a teacher . |
| 2 | As a star , Bette Davis was of the type commonly designated ‘ inimitable ’ , which tends to mean ( as it did in her case ) that she eventually became the butt of countless imitators ; and these imitators merely accentuated symptoms of self-parody that were already detectable in her own screen presence . |
| 3 | So , certain interests , but only certain interests , came to enjoy a quasi-legal status so that they almost became a part of the state and governing institutions in their own right . |
| 4 | He used to be fond of quoting this rhyme : There is so much bad in the best of us And so much good in the worst of us , That it ill becomes the rest of us , To think evil of any one of us . |
| 5 | But it places so little emphasis on resistance to the dominant culture , that it either becomes a sort of ‘ toothless liberalism ’ ( Segal 1987 : 24 ) , or ignores politics completely . |
| 6 | As a successful town , it is not unlikely that it also became a pagus centre for part of the Dobunni and additionally the residence of the regionarius mentioned above ( p. 34 ) . |
| 7 | It naturalises itself so easily that it almost becomes a weed . |
| 8 | Though Hobbes had already made enemies of John Wallis and Seth Ward , two of its founder members , over his claim to have solved the geometrical problem of squaring the circle , it was at least partly due to his association in the popular mind with a materialistic atheism that he never became a Fellow . |
| 9 | The difference , and the difficulty , for the television reporter is that he inevitably becomes a partner in this process of suppression . |
| 10 | OK , so it eventually becomes an obsession , and someone has to kill to get the key , but it keeps the audience alert , particularly when there 's a late night knock at the door . |
| 11 | I 'm frank and candid by nature and so perhaps not surprisingly my career was blocked , former friends learned to cross the street when they saw me coming and I quickly became a non-person ; a communist speciality . |
| 12 | If you ever become a parent you 'll discover that the agonies and humiliation you put Jean through were not hers alone . |
| 13 | The cigarette companies started to issue cards once again in the middle of 1922 and they quickly became a craze . |
| 14 | After the Kristallnacht in 1938 he helped rescue 14 young Jews from a German concentration camp , and he later became a Zionist . |
| 15 | The book which he wrote was circulated to the English universities and he then became a member of a mission to Italy to press the divorce on the Pope . |
| 16 | Johnny 's silky touches and ball playing skills , nurtured by the great Arthur Rowe , drew huge admiration from Palace fans and he inevitably became a target for the bigger clubs , but he was still with the Palace when he gained his first full England International cap ( against Northern Ireland at Wembley on 22 November 1961 ) and Palace 's first such honour in thirty-eight years . |
| 17 | From now on Prague was to develop an exciting and original form of late Gothic architecture and it increasingly became the mainspring of the courtly ‘ International Gothic ’ . |
| 18 | Membership of a " terrorist group " was punishable by five years ' imprisonment and it also became a crime to possess " directly or indirectly " written or recorded materials condoning " terrorist " activity . |
| 19 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 20 | It was severely under-funded , and it quickly became a horse infirmary primarily , and a teaching body secondarily . |
| 21 | The ‘ superstore ’ Failed to prove a viable proposition and it subsequently became a workshop for a specialist firm of motorcar body builders used by Rolls Royce cars , and only in more recent years has that business ceased and the premises redeveloped as office accommodation . |
| 22 | Millend stood idle for about eight years until it eventually became the home of The Mechanical Malting Company , later The Automatic Malting Co , who remained there until 1931 . |
| 23 | But he soon became a joke to most of us , because not only was he pedantic and patronizing , he was also frightened of what he 'd started and disliked suggestions for fear they implied that he was going wrong . |
| 24 | I started on the full golf tour , but it soon became a choice of golf or my family . |
| 25 | At first he may look funny chatting away silently but it soon becomes a bore . |
| 26 | The one Non-Conformist chapel referred to in the article has been saved because it subsequently became a parish church and thus qualified for the fund . |
| 27 | The worst problem was to try to explain quarantine regulations to the black-clothed mothers who would not go away from the main gates and wailed bitterly ‘ Oh ! mio bambino ! mio bambino ! ’ till Mr Rideout had to have Dr Hill 's attendance lest he too became a patient . |
| 28 | I wo n't be held by a promise that was unfairly extracted from me before I legally became an adult . |
| 29 | When I later became an agnostic and went to university , nobody had ever heard of my Bible college . |
| 30 | Fern Lodge , Highgate , was one of their shorter stops , when it briefly became a centre of the literary universe . |