Example sentences of "did not become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been observed in a large number of deep sea cores from both high and low latitudes , though one is tempted to ask how many other species did not become extinct during this period . |
| 2 | Luckily , I did not become jaundiced by this diet . |
| 3 | Those who became unemployed as a result of the ending of a temporary job , but who did not become long-term unemployed , were more likely to have experienced three or more spells of joblessness and to have had three or more jobs in the 20 months following initial registration than were the sample as a whole . |
| 4 | Frankie Goes To Hollywood did not become successful because of Morley 's sales campaign ; rather , his sales campaign became significant because Frankie were successful ( and Morley 's hubris in thinking otherwise fed into Frankie 's fall — new pop was easily co-opted because its radical intentions were of no consequence for its commercial practices ) . |
| 5 | But we still managed to battle back and get a draw , and the away goals we conceded did not become crucial . |
| 6 | Although the Times and Sunday Times did not become official UNIP papers until 1975 , the editor of the former had been appointed by the president even before this date . |
| 7 | For him the issue did not become live until well after the 1959 general election . |
| 8 | Scarcity limited its purchase to the wealthy and quinine did not become available generally for the treatment of malaria for another two hundred years , when the Dutch successfully transplanted trees to the East Indies . |
| 9 | In Britain government finance for schools and universities did not become available — and then only in piffling amounts — until 1890 . |
| 10 | As ‘ London Transport ’ fleet name transfers did not become available until May 1934 , it is probable that they did not receive them until their next annual overhaul . |
| 11 | ‘ If a woman did not become pregnant after the first transfer attempt , any frozen embryos could be thawed and transferred in a subsequent menstrual cycle , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Eleanor Ramsay did not become pregnant until three years later . |
| 13 | Masturbation did not become respectable , but there was a new stress on its ability to rob adolescence of real fulfilment , and this was even echoed in the work of sex reformers such as Havelock Ellis and expressed in G. Stanley Hall 's two volumes on adolescence . |
| 14 | Official milestones were authorised on the London to Chester road in 1744 , but they did not become compulsory until 1773 . |
| 15 | Guide-posts did not become compulsory until the act of 1773 . |
| 16 | In China , on the other hand , where jade was established as the most valued and highly regarded precious substance , gold did not become prominent until Persian influence became important during the Eastern Zhou dynasty and the Han empire , and first really flourished under the Ming and Ching dynasties . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , he was already an adult when he took up writing , and did not become fluent . |
| 18 | The century following the Peace of Carlowitz ( Karlovci ) between the Habsburgs and the Turks in 1699 saw many changes in the relations among the European powers , some of which directly affected the South Slav peoples , and others which had delayed and indirect effects on them , the significance of which did not become apparent until well into the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | The silence and emptiness of the scene did not become apparent to her until she turned into the drive of the house and realized there were no other cars parked there , no gaily clad groups tripping towards the garden , no jazz band to summon them nor hired flunkeys to greet them , no pop of champagne corks nor buzz of conversation , no bunting , no balloons , no merriment of any kind . |
| 20 | Under Japanese law , a Diet member 's signature did not become effective until endorsed by the Diet as a whole , however , and on this occasion House Speaker Yoshio Sakurauchi ruled that the resignations would not be considered until the political situation had " normalized " . |
| 21 | Part-timers did not become senior librarian , however highly regarded . |
| 22 | But surface analysis by X-ray fluorescence ( see glossary ) shows that one is a leaded tin bronze , quite appropriate for the period , whereas the other is of brass , the alloy of copper and zinc , which did not become common until the Roman period over five hundred years later . |
| 23 | Apart from the increased likelihood of abrasion on an item being constantly handled , it was also important that the case did not become distorted , thus preventing precise closure . |
| 24 | Arthur Scargill did not become national president of the NUM until 1982 . |
| 25 | Neither found the BF a suitable vehicle for their increasingly anti-semitic views as the organization did not become hostile to Jews before 1932 . |
| 26 | Sexism and racism did not become public issues because large numbers of men and of white people became aware of their negative attitudes to women and to black people . |
| 27 | This was , in fact , for Franco , although its existence did not become public knowledge until almost thirty years later . |
| 28 | Mrs Bourne has always said if she could prove chemicals were responsible it would make the tragedy easier to bear , as well as ensuring other children did not become needless victims . |
| 29 | In fact the powers did not become operative during the lifetime of the commission . |
| 30 | There were internal arguments about the honouring of martyrs and about the proper way of ensuring that the honours did not become confused with old heathen practices , such as offering food and wine at the tombs of ancestors . |