Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] become a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that a horse has to be a minimum of 7/8 bred now to become a top class event horse . |
| 2 | Picking up tips did not just come in the form of money , for Dave learned enough to become a single-figure handicap golfer by 1967 . |
| 3 | What is difficult to believe is that they had suddenly become a real threat to Gloucester . |
| 4 | What is difficult to believe is that they had suddenly become a real threat to Gloucester . |
| 5 | Synthesis of the oligonucleotides required as primers in the reaction had already become a commonplace procedure . |
| 6 | Many shrewd judges , both on the veldt and in England , though that the Springbok selectors were taking a massive gamble with Griffin , who had already been called for throwing in his own country , especially as unfair bowling had lately become a major issue . |
| 7 | But it is easy to see that , for example , a young mother who had recently been left by her husband , and gone back to a ( very good ) job , would pile up several different low scores , all linked to the fact that she had just become a single parent . |
| 8 | Russia had thus become a naval power equal to Spain and little inferior to France . |
| 9 | By the end of the sixteenth century it had been compounded for a cash payment from the counties and had thus become a straightforward tax . |
| 10 | Actually , a curious discovery is how many scribes and illuminators were still members of religious orders , even after the thirteenth century when book production had largely become a secular enterprise . |
| 11 | Two years earlier , on a more limited franchise , the first Senegalese deputy , Blaise Diagne , had been elected to the French National Assembly and had rapidly become a junior minister . |
| 12 | In the meantime , the Red Poll had rapidly become a minor breed , indeed officially classified as a rare breed , and was in great danger of losing its identity when in 1980 the breed society was reorganised and revitalised . |
| 13 | My uncle worships alone these days , and has done ever since his son left home to become a devout Capitalist ( neither his wife nor his daughter had ever bothered with my Uncle 's unique brand of condemnationist Christianity ; as a rule , the McHoan women , whether so by blood or marriage , have displayed a marked reluctance to take their men-folk 's passions seriously , at least outside the bedroom ) . |
| 14 | He was to regret this in the future , even to the extent of denying on occasion that he had ever become a naturalised American . |
| 15 | As a result of this potent combination of sentiment and self-interest , the war had assumed the character of something more than a military operation : in the minds of the military and of many civilians , left and right , it had quickly become a decisive test of France 's national will and international power . |
| 16 | He had also become a close friend of Joseph Parker who had visited America in 1873 and 1884 . |
| 17 | In the middle of this explosion of pop culture , Nicholson had also become a free agent again , having parted from his wife in 1966 , and moved in with his actor friend Harry Dean Stanton at Laurel Canyon . |
| 18 | The slight tilt it always had now become a great lunge to one side , and as the mist moved against it the bin appeared to be moving the other way . |
| 19 | For Napoleon III the defeat was doubly fatal in that it not only revealed France 's weakness but also underlined the extent to which Prussia had now become a major power . |
| 20 | This had now become a major programme that would need external funding . |
| 21 | ‘ Breaking out at weekends ’ had now become a pathological habit . |
| 22 | In 1967 Godfrey Hounsfield of EMI Central Laboratories reported that X-ray tomography had now become a practical proposition because of the advance of computers . |
| 23 | Though harmonic signposts remained , the flexibility of Wagner and Debussy had now become a dense maze , difficult to chart . |
| 24 | It had now become a direct challenge to his manhood . |
| 25 | Yet Brandt , born illegitimate , exiled under the Nazis , who had even become a Norwegian citizen for a time after the war , had come through many trials . |
| 26 | Ingushetia , merged with the Chechen republic since 1934 , had again become a separate region in June 1992 , having responded to Chechnia 's independence demands in March 1992 with a demand to remain in the Russian Federation [ see p. 38826 ] . |
| 27 | TV had definitely become a mass medium . |
| 28 | For all the agricultural losses , food rationing had never become a serious matter ; in 1914 , the fabrication of croissants was banned , but permitted again after only five months . |