Example sentences of "have become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Relax ’ may only have become a scandal when the BBC in belated confusion ( and in response to teasing video clips ) banned it , but singers Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford promote an explicitly gay image , and ‘ Two Tribes ’ was a pointed response to nuclear defence policy . |
| 2 | But whoever it is , waving to the exultant crowds , he will have become a legend . |
| 3 | Had things been different , Julia might have become a vet or a professional horsewoman . |
| 4 | As a penance , she became a hangman , although I would have thought she would more likely have become a candidate for hanging . |
| 5 | Fresden Manor should have become a centre for local children to study Roman history . |
| 6 | If Angel had studied at Cambridge he would never have become a farmer and married a country girl . |
| 7 | To the south , across a wasteland which might have become a park , is the House of Science . |
| 8 | ‘ Dr. Briant wishes me to make clear at the outset that he is not entirely happy that this matter should have become a subject of public discussion . |
| 9 | They hope when the 1994 festival comes round they 'll have become a part of Cheltenham tradition . |
| 10 | " If I 'd wanted to spend over five hours on the golf course I would have become a greenkeeper and not a professional golfer . " |
| 11 | The talisman will have become a docket , and a docket with a sinister purpose ; for the change is not just to conform with the requirements of the EC but signals a fundamental change of function . |
| 12 | Tiny Rowland may have become a bore with his obsession over DTI 's failure to publish the report on the House of Fraser — but on this occasion he is on the side of the Gods . |
| 13 | Had he been caught or had he panicked he could well have been in very serious trouble : the charming young tearaway could have become a court case . |
| 14 | Commitment to the war could have become a problem in itself as the chances of victory became remote . |
| 15 | It is surely one of the most cruel twists of fate that a man who has demonstrated such commitment , as well as compassion to overcome so many other problems during his life — and indeed to have helped so many others to have done the same — that he should have become a victim of medical science . |
| 16 | A sense of her own importance , which survived despite the sadnesses of her adult life and prompted her to tell her own story at such length , is summed up in her quotation of a relative 's comment on her autobiography , ‘ it was not writ as if a weak woman might have done it , but might have become a divine . ’ |
| 17 | I could easily have become a scapegoat . |
| 18 | As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples . |
| 19 | Food may not have become a weapon , but the failure of Soviet agriculture to meet its peoples ' demands was a wound that contributed to the collapse of Soviet power in the second half of the 1980s . |
| 20 | It should not have become a synonym for adoption . |
| 21 | Baseball may have become a parks game in Britian in recent years but now in Gloucestershire there 's a new name to put alongside the Chicago Whitesox and the Los Angeles Dodgers … the name on the shirt is the Gloster Meteors . |
| 22 | He was offered a Dupont chemical engineering scholarship and might have become a captain of industry somewhere in middle America , balding , bloated and with a houseful of his own children , anonymously having pursued a largely uneventful career in that worthy but slightly boring structure of management in a giant US conglomerate . |
| 23 | Should he have become a friar or a student ? |
| 24 | The company say the safety of their staff is paramount , they 'll even bring in a jeweller to remove rings which may have become a fixture over the years . |
| 25 | And by the end of the decade , software will have become a commodity similar in importance to the machines themselves . |
| 26 | I guess that if I had n't taken up the trenchcoat and fedora to walk the alleyways of history as the greatest detective of them all , I might well have become a poet . |
| 27 | By this time though , judging what footholds you can and can not use on this bizarrely rippled slab , should have become a touch clearer . |