Example sentences of "become so [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their officers might experience at times a tension between enjoyment of these qualities and impatience at their collective uncooperativeness , but few of them seem to have become so downhearted that they ceased to enjoy their work . |
| 2 | By the early fifteenth century the Exchequer had become so overcommitted that creditors had to queue for payment , and a creditor 's place in the queue was determined as much as anything by political favour . |
| 3 | There is one small river at Ebenat , but that has become so polluted that the relief workers have to bring in water by tanker . |
| 4 | Several beaches have become so polluted that they are now closed . |
| 5 | HAVING BECOME the Julian Copes of jazz café soul , The Style Council parted company because their records had become so deranged that no-one could comprehend even the tiniest part of them . |
| 6 | Bertrand Russell , who took over the chairmanship of the NCF when Allen was jailed , later remarked : ‘ In some men the habit of standing out against the herd had become so ingrained that they could not co-operate with anybody about anything . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Friel had become so frightened that he took refuge in a friend 's house nearby until he thought the coast was clear at midnight . |
| 8 | He realized that Rommel 's lines of communication had become so stretched that they would be even more vulnerable to attack , and every man detached to guard them would be one less to face the Eighth Army at Alamein . |
| 9 | The delays have become so prolonged that there are rumours that Philips ' Japanese partners are becoming restive . |
| 10 | In some cases land has become so degraded that it is agriculturally worthless . |
| 11 | This would be possible , Lenin believed , because the majority of state administrative functions had become so simplified that they could be ‘ reduced ’ to such simple operations as registering , filing and checking — mere routine . |
| 12 | The fundamental problem with the CAP is that , in an attempt to keep farmers on the land , the price mechanism has become so distorted that none of its objectives is now being realised , and at a high cost . |
| 13 | Before the First World War , many Marxists believed , as we shall see , that world capitalism had become so internationalized that even the political struggle for national independence made no sense ( or worse , it was reactionary ) . |
| 14 | Arctic skuas feed their young on the fish which they rob from the terns , and have become so specialised that they have almost lost the capability of catching food for themselves . |
| 15 | It is not surprising that some viruses have taken advantage of the sexual act as a vehicle for their transmission , but , while bacteria such as gonococci , treponemes , and the organisms responsible for the tropical sexually transmitted diseases have become so specialized that non-venereal transmission is extremely rare , the sexually transmitted virus infections , with the exception of genital warts , are frequently transmitted in other ways as well . |
| 16 | The zebra loach has become so specialized that it can not survive in a less turbulent environment . |