Example sentences of "become [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became eventually a conscientious objector . |
| 2 | It was not itself a centre of manufacturing , but it outstripped all other ports as a point of transit for English exports and became thereby a major entrepot of international trade . |
| 3 | The Uzbek defence law came into effect on Aug. 6 , under which the country became effectively a neutral , non-nuclear state , renouncing all territorial claims on other states , according to Interfax . |
| 4 | Local communities became less a defence against the pressures of a hostile world , more a basis for active resistance : . |
| 5 | For him it now became less a place of protest than a refuge for failures , free-loaders and misfits . |
| 6 | Between 1927 and 1934 the PCF became less a political group with a mass following , more an extremist ideological sect , an ideal target for repression and persecution by reactionary governments . |
| 7 | That is how a system for dealing with genuine refugees — the losers in Indochina 's civil wars — became insensibly a system for turning North Vietnamese peasants into New York waiters . |
| 8 | That is how a system for dealing with genuine refugees — the losers in Indochina 's civil wars — became insensibly a system for turning North Vietnamese peasants into New York waiters . |
| 9 | I kept them to myself , where they constantly grew in depth and where they became merely a backdrop to my private obsession : home , family , school , everything . |
| 10 | Vehicle emission standards for carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons were suspended until 1980–1 and the original oxides of nitrogen standard became merely a long-term research objective . |
| 11 | By public demand their split became merely a brief sabbatical , and since being reunited the Blues Band have been playing their cocktail of traditional blues and original material around the globe . |
| 12 | And then it became perhaps a troublesome er entity . |
| 13 | Its origin , and its method of financing , almost inevitably led to it becoming effectively a horse infirmary . |
| 14 | In the process whereby a child comes to act in accordance with the rules and values of society , becoming eventually a reasonably self-controlled , inner-directed member of the community , one of the first steps is the development of self-restraint . |
| 15 | I fear that from becoming perhaps a local nuisance he will become a pest . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's becoming just a fashion statement . |
| 17 | by activities being insufficiently well linked , becoming just a series of subject-driven inputs with no natural relationship |
| 18 | Already Northern Ireland was becoming just a pretty landscape , a backdrop to the pain behind her eyes . |
| 19 | The theme of Stalingrad was becoming rapidly a major embarrassment to the propagandists , especially those on the Wehrmacht staff , who had prematurely whipped up the victory atmosphere in September . |
| 20 | Being middle class was becoming more a matter of consumption than of belief . |
| 21 | Traditionally , the centre-half , under the offside law as it then was , played chiefly as an attacker , but even before the offside law was changed in 1925 to increase goal-scoring chances , and thus bring about a need for stronger defence , he was becoming more a third defender . |
| 22 | Around the turn of the century , there was much disenchantment with freemasonry because it was negating its original secrets of the occult and becoming more a social club and friendly society . |
| 23 | He saved enough to buy a small hat-shop in Belfast , installed a manageress and on the slender profits of this enterprise read medicine at Queen 's University , Belfast , becoming later a consultant physician in Sydney , Australia . |
| 24 | becoming later a Doctor of Divinity and a distinguished Minister of the United Church of Canada . |
| 25 | At this date such illustrations were uncommon even in engineering , where drawing was becoming both a serious matter and something like an art form . |
| 26 | I anticipate that because that 's becoming now a key question . |
| 27 | Especially as this new bit of gossip came at a time when the idea that Walter Machin was becoming posthumously a national figure was beginning to filter through to Oswaldston consciousness . |
| 28 | Increasing cultural complexities suggest that Lodge 's image of the crossroads might even be brought up to date — and given , appropriately , a faintly foreign flavour — by the possibility of post-imperial Britain becoming increasingly a sort of spaghetti junction , heterogeneous styles and registers meeting , intertwining , competing or coalescing . |
| 29 | He was involved in the same heavy round of duties as soon as he returned to London , however , and honorary positions were becoming increasingly a burden . |
| 30 | In both the government and the opposition press in Morocco , the situation in the Western Sahara was meanwhile becoming increasingly a focus for nationalist commentary . |