Example sentences of "would have become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A : I suppose we could have one news bulletin a month , by which time what was important and what was not would have become apparent . |
| 2 | The flock are unlikely to have been as completely innocent as the latter suggests , and their guilt may well have had a secular aspect , for it might be doubted whether Cnut would have become involved with spiritual shortcomings . |
| 3 | The commission of array authorizing Rivers to raise men in the marches , for instance , would have become valueless once it became known that he was out of favour . |
| 4 | The commission of array authorizing Rivers to raise men in the marches , for instance , would have become valueless once it became known that he was out of favour . |
| 5 | Some old plants which would otherwise have remained profitable as a result of faster or more effective working would have become unprofitable as a result of these productivity gains not being achieved . |
| 6 | Had his depression lasted much longer he would have become agoraphobic . |
| 7 | In the eighteenth century he would have become prime minister before he was thirty ; as it was he appeared honourably ineligible for the struggle of life . |
| 8 | And if no Government could do so , then the necessary foundation to government by consent of the governed would crumble and , sooner or later , the country would have become unmanageable as an authentic democracy . |
| 9 | Further , to argue , as Gandhi does , that progress towards ahi sā must have taken place otherwise the human race would have become extinct by now , in the same way as lower species of animal life have become extinct , is to ignore the principle of natural selection , and the fact that more sophisticated weapons of hi sā are now at man 's disposal making the possibility of his self-destruction and extinction more real today than at any time in the past . |
| 10 | If Vance had been able to convince 17 Politburo members that a far-reaching restructuring of strategic forces was in the Soviet interest , this would have become Soviet policy . |
| 11 | If a creditor is owed a debt not payable at the date of the bankruptcy order , he may nonetheless prove for the same ( r 6.114 ) but subject to an adjustment of his dividend where payment of dividend is made before the time when the debt would have become payable . |
| 12 | Then they would have entered the conical shadow cast by the moon , and the stars would have become visible again for a brief time before the Lift sank beneath the surface itself and came to a standstill , its massive kinetic energy somehow conducted away from the lower terminus and stored in a way that Alex Bannen would have killed to learn . |
| 13 | If the machine was switched on , the entire metal bodywork would have become live , seriously injuring , possibly even killing the user . |
| 14 | L/Cpl Edwards had been shot through the cheek and would have become unconscious immediately and died shortly afterwards , said consultant pathologist Dr Roger Williams . |
| 15 | The Darlington inquest heard Mr Still , of Newholme Estate , Station Town , Wingate , died from cardio-respiratory failure and he would have become unconscious soon after impact . |
| 16 | The accompanying curves showing maturity evolution for each formation with time ( Fig. 5 — right-hand diagram ) indicate that Westphalian A and B source rocks would have become gas-generative over the period mid Cretaceous to mid Oligocene . |
| 17 | If he had said ‘ Yes ’ , he would have become unpopular with the people , who hated the tax . |
| 18 | The agreement came only 10 hours before the deadline for the beginning of the new fiscal year , after which automatic spending cuts triggered by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction law would have become operational . |
| 19 | For then , the burden of misery imposed on the proletariat by the alienation of labour and the crisis would have become unbearable . |
| 20 | Without such a blanket definition of dangerous goods , however imprecise , the conditions would have become unbalanced , with the need to include highly technical classifications of dangerous goods more appropriate to the shipping industry . |
| 21 | Had such an option been granted to the Danes , other countries would have demanded similar privileges , and the dream of creating a unitary European state would have become unattainable . |