Example sentences of "and become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I pointed out in the last chapter , working-class attachment to institutional religion never picked up from the moment that peasants moved off the land and became urbanised . |
| 2 | About this time the Geomagnetism Unit and the Global Seismology Unit were incorporated into NERC and became component parts of IGS . |
| 3 | He collapsed and became unconscious , so he was taken by ambulance to hospital , where he was admitted as an emergency . |
| 4 | He was taken to the hospital by police , where he was given a great deal of medicine and became unconscious . |
| 5 | He developed a tiresome cough which disturbed his brother 's rest , and became listless and depressed . |
| 6 | He was , however , drawn towards Ludus and became friendly with their singer , songwriter , artist and leader , Linder . |
| 7 | Now , I served on the island many years later and became friendly with a host of people , and I personally researched a great deal on our raid when not a single bomb fell on the seaplane base . |
| 8 | The brutality and unprovoked nature of the attacks , together with the fact that the victims were white and middle class — the jogger was a vice president of a leading securities firm — whilst the assailants were black or Hispanic , meant that the case received a massive degree of publicity and became symbolic of US racial tension and urban violence . |
| 9 | The case had received massive publicity and became symbolic of the institutionalized racism and brutality alleged by many to exist within the LAPD [ see pp. 38091 ; 38139 ] , and led to an independent commission of inquiry [ see pp. 38329-30 ] . |
| 10 | The CLPD was founded in 1973 and became influential during the period of the Callaghan Government , urging constitutional changes in the Labour Party in order to make party leaders and MPs more responsive and responsible to opinion within the party . |
| 11 | Iraqi convoys using secondary roads and pontoon bridges created serious congestion and became simple targets for air attack . |
| 12 | John Smedley knitwear was given the Red Or Dead once-over and became mock-boy scout gear , while Russian babooshka doll prints on stretch velvet should be everywhere next summer . |
| 13 | One officer said that it was so precise that his men could have leaned against it ; another , that his only casualties were those who followed the wall too closely and became queasy from the fumes of explosives . |
| 14 | Benny stumbled from time to time , and became tongue-tied when she looked at the handsome boy sitting beside them . |
| 15 | He also spent a year in England and became fluent in English . |
| 16 | Sadler was twice married and had two sons , Windham William [ q.v. ] and John , who assisted him and became professional aeronauts . |
| 17 | The dog , who had perhaps feared a pavement perambulation , sniffed the air too and became frisky . |
| 18 | By this time the only real difference was that broadcasters lost their separate status along with certain privileges in pensions and related matters , and became civil servants . |
| 19 | For example , in 1940 Hetherington and Ranson observed that rats with lesions involving the ventromedial hypothalamus ate excessively and became obese . |
| 20 | Essentially a creative person , he was unpredictable , and became self-destructive . |
| 21 | In November 1973 Friends of the Earth published his book World Energy Strategies — written before the October 1973 oil shock — which thereafter appeared in many other countries and languages , and became one of the seminal documents of the ‘ alternative energy ’ literature . |
| 22 | In later years he turned to golf and became one of the most successful amateur players in the history of the sport in Canada . |
| 23 | Well , she was the subject of much interest and became one of the sights of London . |
| 24 | He trained as a painter in Vienna , spent long periods in Russia and France and became one of Hungary 's leading Romantic painters and illustrators . |
| 25 | He held office for twenty-seven years and became one of the most renowned figures who have ever served the BDDA , because of his devotion to the cause of deafness and the dominating position he came to hold in the deaf world . |
| 26 | The show attracted over 10,000 visitors in seven weeks , and became one of the town 's most successful ever exhibitions . |
| 27 | She quickly achieved national prominence and became one of the WSPU 's first full-time organizers , in late 1908 . |
| 28 | Holford began to collect works of art in 1839 and became one of the most distinguished collectors of his time , with an enthusiasm for the Italian Renaissance . |
| 29 | He was one of the very few men of science who gave a welcome , albeit qualified , to Vestiges ( 1844 ) presumably because he could see the wood for the trees ; but when the Origin of Species came out in 1859 he disliked it heartily , and became one of the most formidable opponents of Darwin and Huxley . |
| 30 | In 1895 the apple was introduced to the trade as a ‘ Delicious ’ and became one of the most widely grown apples in the world . |