Example sentences of "become [adv] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For instance , in western societies women have become economically more important than hitherto . |
| 2 | The work of Government has become vastly more complex since his day and the amount and density of paper which comes before the Prime Minister 's eye has increased dramatically . |
| 3 | Roosevelt , however , was president in a relatively uncomplicated era and since his time government has become vastly more complex and expansive with the problems of bureaucratic control increasing by quantum leaps . |
| 4 | For Perrier the sale of soft drinks have become vastly less important than the revenue from bottled water . |
| 5 | A similar ambivalence can be sensed in Uppercross Cottage : on the one hand , its windows can relieve a social occasion by allowing those under stress to admire the view and recover their composure ; on the other , the tendency of the younger generation to appear at those windows unannounced , and even to come in by them , suggests a social life that has become altogether too informal and erratic . |
| 6 | It was an hour later that they came back and by then the Jewish family had let me know exactly what was happening in Germany , and my game had become rather more serious . |
| 7 | She had become rather wispishly beautiful , thin with light hair and quick nervous movements . |
| 8 | The weary sighs from friends and associates as they replace the telephone receiver after yet another call from the maestro have become somewhat more pronounced . |
| 9 | The situation has become somewhat more confusing of late , however . |
| 10 | All this does not at all mean that monopoly , within our framework of discussion has become less potentially dangerous or less important . |
| 11 | Brazilians have become only too accustomed to economic pyrotechnics and were fearful of more . |
| 12 | erm The Jewish novelist in America of course has become much more influential since the Second World War , particularly Saul Bellow , who won a Nobel Prize , erm Philip Roth , erm Bernard Malamud . |
| 13 | At the same time computers have become much more powerful and common with much more information available in machine readable form . |
| 14 | Following the unbanning of the ANC and other organizations and the release of Nelson Mandela , the focus of the programme has become much more developmental , supporting group training ( Access ) and postgraduate study . |
| 15 | The first is that they have become much more reliant upon state benefits : first supplementary benefit and latterly income support ( which replaced supplementary benefit in 1988 ) . |
| 16 | He seemed , indeed , to have become much more decisive altogether , for at exactly the same time as he signed the rescript , he created a new governmental body under his own chairmanship , the Council of Ministers , whose purpose was apparently to strengthen his grip on the central administration . |
| 17 | Thanks to pooled data , lenders have become much more effective by aiming their products at those who are most likely to respond , more likely to use the credit offered and be more willing and able to pay . |
| 18 | Today , however , they have become much more similar , with building societies now offering current account facilities and cash machines , and commercial banks granting mortgages . |
| 19 | The relevant pressure groups maintain their vigilance , but during the 1970s the changes in the rural landscape , especially in the lowlands , have become much more visible and have certainly received much more publicity . |
| 20 | This poverty has become much more visible in recent years because the number of lone-parent families has increased so dramatically . |
| 21 | Not only have the basic building blocks of the computer become smaller and cheaper , and hence more readily available to a greater number of people , the language of the computer has become much more accessible to the lay person . |
| 22 | One item that has become much more expensive recently is education . |
| 23 | Their speed of escape reaction is by then greater and they have become much more experienced . |
| 24 | This tendency has steadily increased , and alongside it there has been a different but related tendency , as combine and corporate ownership have become much more common in book publishing . |
| 25 | Since her Coronation , Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip — now the Duke of Edinburgh , — made a number of overseas tours , mainly within the Commonwealth of Nations , and these visits had become much more informal . |
| 26 | Timetables for students have become much more flexible and there is long term support for students ‘ spiralling out ’ to employment , independent living or learning opportunities offered through Learning Links , Open Learning , Adult Education , W.E.A. and other agencies within the College 's network . |
| 27 | ‘ As compared with fifty , or even twenty years ago , ’ it was said that ‘ children have much more money to spend and more inducement to spend it ’ which led to ‘ that ‘ something for nothing ’ ’ philosophy which , we are told , has become much more prevalent since the advent of the welfare state' . |
| 28 | The whole question of replacing paper-based systems with electronic mail has become much more attractive with the growth of cheaper , higher-powered , user-friendly PCs . |
| 29 | Whereas choice theories imagine a market full of independent traders , who make isolated purposive exchanges , interests theories recognize that in the twentieth century the division of labour has become much more fragmented . |
| 30 | Things have become much more difficult since then . |