Example sentences of "did become [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the business only just failed to meet the first target , it did become financially self-sustaining six months ahead of schedule . |
| 2 | The fact is that the Conservative Party did become closely involved in the problems of the poor and the unemployed — although their efforts were often seen as less than caring . |
| 3 | However , some rural communities did become quite reliant on rail for outside contacts , in particular the rural mining settlements in Wales and the North of England , commuter villages in the South East and some more isolated estuarine settlements in the South West . |
| 4 | In the end the NL did become demonstrably pro-Conservative and saw off the IML challenge , but divisions like this played their part in ensuring that the British Navy League was never as large or influential as its German counterpart . |
| 5 | He did not become less willing to relinquish office during those forty-eight hours of crisis ; but he did become less willing to relinquish office at the behest of Arthur Henderson . |
| 6 | I would like to think that if Freud were alive today , he would have said the same thing , of course when Freud wrote this book in nineteen twenty one er there was no such thing as group psychotherapy it had n't been invented yet , it was to become very much after World War Two but partly existed before and perhaps it 's past its peak now , but erm it did become very much a after World War Two and the point I made was and this is really wh wh what Heather ha h has just said , that if you take Freud 's book on , on group seriously , how can you do group psychoanalysis ? |
| 7 | That is to say , scholars have assumed that around 1550 the English language became much more convergent than it had been before even though there can be no direct evidence that spoken English did become more convergent . |
| 8 | I mean supposing women 's football did get more support and i wen and i it did become more widespread , more popular at every level , there was time , the resources to do it , do you think the things that people complained about football at the top of this programme er , the bigotry , the aggression , the rowdiness , do you think they would begin to overwhelm women 's football in the way that some of you think they 've overwhelmed men 's football ? |