Example sentences of "become [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is called habituation : the nervous system has become familiarized with the particular set of stimuli which are the pressure of the fabric of the clothes on touch receptors in the skin , or of the glass rod on the planarian 's body ; the stimuli can thus be disregarded , no longer a factor to be taken into consideration in assessing the current state of the environment . |
| 2 | It declared him to be ‘ in no sense party political ’ ; despite having ‘ roots on the left ’ , he had become fascinated from the mid-1970s onwards ( like Jay ) by Thatcherite economics . |
| 3 | Often the survey is to be conducted after months of work on a theme , and by this time the researcher has become immersed in the work and tends to forget that other people do not have the same interest or knowledge . |
| 4 | The -e has become attracted to the -ly ; the speller is seeing the word as a whole , instead of as love + ly |
| 5 | By 1974 many of these people had become disillusioned with the Heath government . |
| 6 | Doi ruthlessly exploited the difficulties which the 1989 Recruit scandal caused for the LDP and as the personification of the nascent Japanese women 's movement she was successful in attracting female voters who had become disillusioned with the political process and estranged from the ruling party . |
| 7 | This was published and printed from tiny offices in the centre of Dar es Salaam by R.B. Thaker , an Asian printer and stationer who had become committed to the nationalist cause and assisted TANU with its printing work on a number of occasions . |
| 8 | A number of voluntary associations have become committed to the idea of ‘ empowering ’ parents to speak for and represent themselves , and see their role as providing training , support and an expert voice as and when required . |
| 9 | However , you may see that I worked over many lines before the ink had been allowed to dry , so in some places the black ink has become fused with the watercolour . |
| 10 | The modern world has become dominated by the rational and technical society where specialisation in work is no longer related to traditional skills or crafts ( based in the home ) but to the economic and functional necessity of the marketplace . |
| 11 | In an age which has become dominated by the Gross National Product and the Dow — Jones Index , the level of interest rates and the state of the pound , the money supply and the Public Sector Deficit , and at a more mundane level , the Sunday colour supplements offering a world of gourmet food and package holidays in the sun , it is a warning which is easily muffled by our culture . |
| 12 | But it is not yet clear whether they base their judgements on their own features , or whether they have become habituated to the characteristics of their full-sister group . |
| 13 | Women as a category have become collapsed into the family . |
| 14 | Now , one man was examining the steel tubes and struts of the scaffolding , dusting the surfaces with aluminium powder and squinting at the result through a lens ; another was on his knees scrutinising the staging planks in case some fibres from the killer 's clothing had become caught in the rough grain of the wood . |
| 15 | In those few months my brain had become saturated with the things of my new life — even my mouth was full of RAF slang and jargon . |
| 16 | Example 4:7 Side by side rent sharing SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule : ( a ) " rental income " means the aggregate of : ( i ) any yearly or other periodical sums payable under an occupational lease including sums payable by virtue of any enactment ; ( ii ) any sums payable by way of interest under an occupational lease ; ( iii ) any sums payable by way of damages or compensation for any breach of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease ; ( iv ) any sum payable by a guarantor of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease pursuant to his guarantee ; ( v ) any premium paid or other capital payment made by a tenant under an occupational lease in connection with the grant assignment variation or surrender of an occupational lease ; ( vi ) any sum payable under a policy of insurance in respect of loss of rent or other income ( b ) " permitted deductions " means the aggregate of : ( i ) expenses reasonably incurred by the tenant in order to comply with its obligations as landlord under an occupational lease ; ( ii ) legal costs incurred by the tenant in enforcing obligations under occupational leases except to the extent that the tenant recovers those costs from a party to an occupational lease ; ( iii ) the amount of any compensation or damages which the tenant is liable by statute or ordered to pay to any party to an occupational lease whether for non-renewal of a tenancy breach of covenant breach of obligation compensation for improvements or otherwise ; ( iv ) the cost of management and rent collection not exceeding … per cent of rental income ( c ) " notional rental income " means the rack rental value of any lettable unit which is either unlet or vacant or occupied by the tenant or by a group company the value to be determined as at the date on which the unit in question ceased to be let or occupied or as the case may be become occupied by the tenant or a group company and redetermined every year ( d ) " lettable unit " means a part of the property which is designed constructed or adapted for letting to an occupying retail trader ( e ) " occupational lease " means a lease under which physical possession of a lettable unit was granted by the tenant ( f ) " rack rental value " of any lettable unit at any time means the rent at which that unit might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market for a term of not less than ten years with an upwards only rent review on every fifth anniversary of the beginning of the term and on such other terms as would be expected to be negotiated in the open market ( including such financial inducements and concessions as are usual in the market at that time ) ( g ) " group company " means a company which would be treated as a member of the same group of companies as the tenant for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( h ) " divisible income " means the difference between : ( i ) rental income plus notional rental income ; and ( ii ) permitted deductions but divisible income shall never be less than nil ( i ) " the first slice " means such part of divisible income as does not exceed £ ( j ) " the second slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ but does not exceed £ ( k ) " the top slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ ( 2 ) The rent payable by the tenant is the aggregate of : ( a ) … per cent of the first slice ; ( b ) … per cent of the second slice ; and ( c ) … per cent of the top slice to be paid by equal quarterly payments on the usual quarter days |
| 17 | The case method had become adopted as the dominant method of legal study in the elite American law schools in the period up to the First World War . |
| 18 | He had become alarmed by the attempts of a group in the Conservative Party to form a New Progressive Group with 100,000 supporters . |
| 19 | Within a short space of time , the laboratory had ceased to be involved in the launch vehicles , themselves ( so making ‘ Jet Propulsion ’ a highly anomalous title ) , and had become connected to the newly-formed NASA empire . |
| 20 | Nature conservationists and farmers ( who both understand what does happen to abandoned land ) should know better , but in the past few years , seem to have become possessed by the same fear of some dark , prolific genie escaping from the bottle . |
| 21 | some 30 to 40 large fig trees have become naturalised on the banks of the River Avon at the heart of the city . |
| 22 | But more than that , John has become rated as the man for the big occasion . |
| 23 | But more than that , John has become rated as the man for the big occasion . |
| 24 | So the patron saint had become absorbed into the feudal world . |
| 25 | Within France , the issue has become absorbed into the debate over the forthcoming referendum on the Maastricht treaty , with opponents claiming that an EC single market would result in France becoming the " dustbin of Europe " . |
| 26 | Perhaps the second fragment had become detached at the same time and simply fallen to the ground where she had picked it up . |
| 27 | Perhaps , not surprisingly , in a short space of time life skills training has become detached from the wider objectives associated with liberal humanist education : the point being that teaching young people about society has been replaced by criteria designed to alter their relationship with it . |
| 28 | In the case of many other states parties , the Convention has become incorporated into the domestic law , thus discharging a primary rather than a secondary function ( i.e. coming into operation only in the event of a failure of domestic remedies ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Women 's Lib ’ has matured and has become incorporated into the language and into the superficial behaviour of most self-respecting liberal socialists . |
| 30 | Volcanic bombs can be composed of either lava , or of preexisting rock which has become incorporated into the magma in the neck of a volcano . |