Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] become a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Edna had left school , she more or less became a fixture in the household and there was no doubt that Celia was a much happier and more tractable baby under her young but competent handling . |
| 2 | It 's an interesting thought that the images of every day life that we all make today , will sooner or later become a part of this heritage . |
| 3 | The cloud becomes very dense at the centre , leaving behind a dusty envelope that ultimately becomes a retinue of planets — like being thrown out onto a potter 's wheel . |
| 4 | One gang set fire to a shop after wrecking it and then that too became a feature of the attacks . |
| 5 | he never took much part in college life and eventually became an object of derision among medical students , who called him ‘ Mummy Jones ’ . |
| 6 | The leather baggage and glass cosmetic pots of the day were too heavy to take on the plane but she managed to find lighter substitutes and so became a pioneer of lightweight luggage , as well as a pioneer female passenger . |
| 7 | Had ICI focused earlier on shareholder value creation , he said , it would not have allowed a value gap to develop and so become a target for Hanson 's predatory schemes . |
| 8 | The dominant Labour Party included large sections of industrial South Wales which was openly hostile , fearing that devolution would separate Wales from the economic and social structure of England and perhaps become a paradise for linguistic nationalists . |
| 9 | He could throw his lot in with the Lord General , and perhaps become a governor of one of the colony worlds . |
| 10 | Yet Louth-born Wilkinson was a midfield player as a schoolboy and only became a forward by accident . |
| 11 | But then again , the Golden Höfner was the flagship of the company 's electric hollow-bodied range between ‘ 59 and ‘ 62 and naturally became a platform for showing just what could be done . |
| 12 | This attractive black-white mammal widely liked by people and already become a symbol of conservation efforts … |
| 13 | The opening thrust of ‘ The Headmaster Ritual ’ brought immediate impact and soon became a favourite with all who had bad experiences at school ( which is everyone ) . |
| 14 | Under William and his son — and successor — Joseph Dalton Hooker ( 1817–1911 ) , Kew began to acquire facilities for studying exotic plants and soon became a centre of international importance . |
| 15 | Third World governments need to help the submerged economy emerge and gradually become a part of the official one . |
| 16 | The Lombard king was exiled to Neustria , and later became a monk in the Abbey of Corbey where he died in his old age . |
| 17 | And one of the most experienced U-boat commanders , Adalbert Schnee , who had been on sixteen patrols and later became a member of Dönitz 's staff , gave evidence that it was contrary to orders to kill survivors and that there could be no excuse for what Eck had done . |
| 18 | He entered Chichester Theological College and later became a curate in Lincolnshire . |
| 19 | To cut a long story short , the church was granted special provision to use the building twelve months before it became generally available ; I was elected to the executive and later became a trustee of the community centre . |
| 20 | He worked among the poor of the Shankill Road , and later became an evangelist in America . |
| 21 | In this year , he was appointed President of the English Circle of Books Across the Sea , and also became a member of the Apollo Society which was dedicated to reviving " the neglected art of reading poetry and to show that poetry and music can be regarded as complementary " . |
| 22 | His attractive , well-stocked garden overlooks open country towards Guisborough and often becomes an extension of his studio . |
| 23 | He paid £200 for hand-crafted boots from Northampton , and even became an EastEnder by residence . |
| 24 | She became a teacher at Lowood , as you did , and then became a governess in the house of a certain Mr Rochester . ’ |
| 25 | In 1898 he worked for some months in Naples on the evolution of small sharks , and then became a demonstrator in the natural history department of St Andrews University . |
| 26 | As it asserted , he was born of a humble background , worked as a salesman in Saudi Arabia in the early 1950s , prospered through his association with Mr Adnan Khashoggi , a Saudi entrepreneur , and then became a millionaire by helping to fix government contracts in the Gulf construction boom . |
| 27 | His name is Bob Skinner and he was a pilot officer in the last war and then became a teacher at the technical college in Carlisle . |
| 28 | , Helen ( 1860–1925 ) , social reformer and theorist , was born 10 February 1860 in Manchester , the youngest daughter and fifth child in the family of five sons and four daughters of the Revd John Dendy , who had been a Nonconformist minister , and then became a businessman in Manchester , and his wife Sarah Beard , daughter of a Unitarian minister . |
| 29 | He attended a local school and then became a pupil-teacher at Half Assini . |
| 30 | His ‘ Sanspareil ’ , which competed unsuccessfully in the Rainhill locomotive trials of 1829 , instituted by the directors of the London and Manchester Railway and won by the ‘ Rocket ’ of Robert Stephenson [ q.v. ] , gave excellent service until 1844 and then became an exhibit at the Science Museum , London . |