Example sentences of "become [adj] [prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 2 | And so it was actually becoming dangerous at the same time . |
| 3 | More black boxers were becoming active during the same decade . |
| 4 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 5 | Despite repeated attacks on Quentovic in the 830s and 840s , for instance , the output of the Quentovic mint , meagre in those decades ( but also in the 820s ) , became large in the latter half of Charles 's reign ; in 858 , the monks of St-Wandrille fled for safety to Quentovic . |
| 6 | Some idea of the strain to which the realm was submitted by these wars will become evident from a few sample years . |
| 7 | If , however , we accept that the effects of non-reinforced exposure can become context-dependent in the same way as associative learning itself can , then the entire pattern of results can be accommodated . |
| 8 | It is that the view of Anglo-American finance as a casino full of rapacious capitalists has become popular at the same time as those countries ' companies were being taken over by the people themselves . |
| 9 | Ethiopia , where the monarchy was overthrown in 1974 , inaugurated a People 's Democratic Republic in 1987 under the leadership of the Workers ' Party of Ethiopia ; Mozambique , which became independent in 1975 , was headed by a liberation movement of broadly Marxist orientation ; and Angola , which became independent in the same year , was governed by the Marxist MPLA-PT ( all three countries concluded friendship treaties with the USSR in the 1970s ) . |
| 10 | If the European Community fails to make that lesson stick in the context of the present crisis in Yugoslavia it will in time feel the consequences as other regions become afflicted with the same madness . |
| 11 | If more than one guard becomes ready at the same time , the choice of which one to execute is nondeterministic ( there is no left-to-right precedence rule as with IF ) . |
| 12 | At just about the same time , a cigar-gnawing chief executive thousands of miles away was shredding his meticulously planned TV schedules to find a slot for a homely Australian series which was to become one of the all time surprise hits , turning many of its stars into instant celebrities . |
| 13 | It 's an opportunity for the company to become efficient at the same time , to have new life injected into it , to bring on and develop talented younger people who might otherwise become stifled and consequently up and go . |