Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] become a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His second son John West Wilson was a resident agent in Gothenburg and eventually became a naturalized Swede . |
| 2 | Her brother , Merfyn , began training with his uncle as a motor engineer and eventually became a technical journalist . |
| 3 | Slatter also served on the county committee for 30 years , edited the club handbook , and eventually became an Honorary member of both Buckinghamshire and the Minor Counties Cricket Association . |
| 4 | How the hell did a man stop being an agent and suddenly become a civil servant ? |
| 5 | And so become a just judge — of theirs . ’ |
| 6 | Models or paintings might be made and perhaps become a similar basis for talk . |
| 7 | Amphibious raiding along the Channel coast and elsewhere became a coordinated intelligence gathering operation in preparation for the opening of a Second Front by the invasion of Europe , plans for which entailed amphibious training for large armies , pre-empting men and equipment from possible large raids . |
| 8 | Through watching his father in these activities , the boy gradually learns how to handle his digging-stick , and thus becomes a practical agriculturist . |
| 9 | Management may be able to establish Newco , obtain commitments to subscribe share capital from the employees and collect in their money , which could support a bridging loan to enable Newco to acquire Target and thus become a holding company . |
| 10 | She had arrived in Paris in 1912 and soon became a good friend of Soutine and a familiar Montparnasse character . |
| 11 | In February 1940 , Flying Officer Douglas Bader , who had lost his legs in a flying accident nine years earlier and was discharged from the RAF , rejoined and was posted to Duxford , and soon became a celebrated officer in Fighter Command , complete with tin legs , although he ended the war in Colditz . |
| 12 | By this means , Dionysiac music was introduced into Greece [ ( VII B.C. ? ) ] and rapidly became a potent force . |
| 13 | In his first spell with the Palace , Steve matured under Dick Graham , Arthur Rowe and Bert Head and quickly became an important part of Palace 's sides in the late 1960s , when his talented inside-forward or midfield displays were one of the hallmarks of Palace performances . |
| 14 | During the Turkish occupation the church was used as a mosque and later became a Jesuit monastery . |
| 15 | Originally this was a track which followed a ridge of higher ground and later became a main route for Welsh drovers taking their cattle to be fattened in Northampton before going on to market in London . |
| 16 | Lord Clive , a k a Clive of India , was born here and later became a local MP and Mayor of Shrewsbury . |
| 17 | On policy Antall stated : " The European Community is our most important target and we want to concentrate all our means to join as an associate member as soon as possible , and later to become a full member . " |
| 18 | His close friendship with Beatrix Potter [ q.v. ] encouraged her to publish her earliest books and later to become a generous donor of land to the National Trust . |
| 19 | That 's carried , fifty votes to thirty six and now becomes a substantive motion . |
| 20 | That , that is carried by forty eight votes to twenty nine and now becomes a substantive motion . |
| 21 | The android continues to fulfil all its courtly duties and even becomes a trusted confidant of the Emperor , and the princess discovers it actually makes a better lover than the original . |
| 22 | After that I had a fear of water , especially the sea , but I learned to live with it and even became a good swimmer . |
| 23 | If a Government who embraced the social charter were returned from the Opposition parties , would we not soon be back in those waters and simply become an industrial desert ? |
| 24 | I He was very good-looking and fast became a popular idol — ‘ As Paris handsome and as Hector brave ’ , according to a contemporary poetaster . |
| 25 | Van Cleef was cast opposite Eastwood in For A Few Dollars More ( 1965 ) and The Good , The Bad and The Ugly ( 1966 ) and immediately became a major star and a poster pin-up . |
| 26 | In the sample year ( 1985 ) , Malcolm Fairley , known as ‘ The Fox ’ , was sentenced at the end of February and immediately became a legendary sex beast to whom several subsequent reports explicitly referred . |
| 27 | Three triplet quavers appear fairly early in the piece and then become a frequent feature , but of course these can be regarded as a diminution of cell b in its three-note form . |
| 28 | ‘ His Royal Highness gave me … ’ he began , and then became a human being . |
| 29 | Burgess was lonely and bored , missed his bohemian life in Soho , never attempted to learn Russian , and never became a Russian citizen . |
| 30 | Even then Chaplin avoided being too socially specific , for over and above this there was his own never quite fully adult quality and his essential reliance on mime technique and silence which ensured that he remained a fairy-tale symbol and never became a real-life person . |