Example sentences of "[vb past] have become a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexander seemed to have become a decisive proponent of reform . |
| 2 | The Hilary of once upon a time would have done it and taken great pleasure in confronting him , but the Hilary of now seemed to have become a spineless coward . |
| 3 | This seemed to have become a permanent condition . |
| 4 | Her lips parted to tell him that it did , but hesitation seemed to have become a periodic tendency , afflicting her like hiccoughs . |
| 5 | The model which they developed has become a valued tool of analysis in both academic and professional circles . |
| 6 | To the new generation of Romantics he appeared to have become a fossilized appendage of a backward-looking Establishment , which was already , in 1815 , in the process of restoring the eighteenth-century dynasties to the thrones of Europe , so that the French Revolution might never have taken place . |