Example sentences of "[verb] become so [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their officers might experience at times a tension between enjoyment of these qualities and impatience at their collective uncooperativeness , but few of them seem to have become so downhearted that they ceased to enjoy their work . |
| 2 | By the early fifteenth century the Exchequer had become so overcommitted that creditors had to queue for payment , and a creditor 's place in the queue was determined as much as anything by political favour . |
| 3 | Some researchers had become so daunted by the devious nature of the virus , which can hide within the cells of the body , that they felt a vaccine would be impossible . |
| 4 | HAVING BECOME the Julian Copes of jazz café soul , The Style Council parted company because their records had become so deranged that no-one could comprehend even the tiniest part of them . |
| 5 | In some areas of Britain local voluntary organizations , or perhaps one of the arms of the public sector services , have become so disheartened by the lack of commitment and enthusiasm on the part of local psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses for developing a new style of service away from their traditional hospital base that they have decided to go ahead and develop a new service without any support from the consultants and hospital staff . |
| 6 | We have become so habituated to market relations that it can seem merely banal to observe that types of work which make a loss will , within market production , be reduced or discontinued , while types which make a profit will be expanded . |