Example sentences of "[adv] become [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this he often failed to bring about cures and eventually became disillusioned with hypnosis as a form of therapy . |
| 2 | More weed and a seed quickly becomes established in cracks on the asphalt In future years even willow trees will be in a foothold to these doomed power stations stands firm and proud as it slips and silently into decay |
| 3 | For it was the people of the three original founding cantons , Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden , who took the first steps to free themselves from external domination and start what was to become an independent confederation of communities , unified in a unique fashion , which in their early years were mostly called simply the Confederates but later became known as Schweizer after the name of one of the original component areas , Schwyz . |
| 4 | He was appointed controller of the printing business of Oxford University Press in 1883 : the position later became known as printer to the university . |
| 5 | Francis therefore showed her into his mother 's bedroom — scattered jewellery and Chanel all covered in cobwebs , and Christopher , she presumed , occupied one of the rooms facing onto the semicircular gallery , which was now becoming covered by bodies in sleeping bags . |
| 6 | Emulation in turn stimulates the desire to retain differentials , which often becomes based upon access to knowledge about goods and their prestige connotations . |
| 7 | From what I have suggested so far we should not be surprised that a recent authoritative and comprehensive review of child abuse research commented that : As we have seen , research itself , like policy and practice , has increasingly become surrounded by controversy over questions of definition and the most appropriate form that approaches and interventions should take . |
| 8 | The Romans , by 200 BC masters of Italy , then became engaged in conflict with Alexander 's successors throughout the eastern Mediterranean . |
| 9 | The open air theme , eventually to become epitomized by visions of Woodstock and the Rolling Stones performing live in Hyde Park , was itself a throwback from Kerouac 's On the Road : because the road became the central symbol of his disciples ' lives — hitting it in search of new horizons when the local scene became dull . |
| 10 | Alan Rothwell , who played another post office clerk in the film and soon afterwards became known on TV as David Barlow in Coronation Street , remembered Crawford as ‘ a good mate and good fun ’ , adding , ‘ We were both on a sort of level at the time . |
| 11 | BY THE time it actually became based in Reading in 1971 , the National Jazz , Blues & Rock Festival — as it would soon be known — had begun to epitomise all that was ominous about sitting on an ex-council rubbish tip amidst capricious weather and listening to the sound of the beat boom go bum . |
| 12 | Adopting the theology of liberation , the main body of the Salvadorean church therefore became identified with opposition to the regimes in power during the 1970s . |