Example sentences of "seem have become [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexander seemed to have become a decisive proponent of reform . |
| 2 | The Hilary of once upon a time would have done it and taken great pleasure in confronting him , but the Hilary of now seemed to have become a spineless coward . |
| 3 | This seemed to have become a permanent condition . |
| 4 | Her lips parted to tell him that it did , but hesitation seemed to have become a periodic tendency , afflicting her like hiccoughs . |
| 5 | War seemed to have become an unusable tool of statecraft . |
| 6 | There were only a handful of other people in the library reference section ; the normal air of peace and quiet one would expect in such a place seemed to have become an unnatural silence . |
| 7 | The varied conditions over the week , biasing towards the lighter end , had given the sailors a good range without the Swedish walkover which seems to have become a regular feature of late . |
| 8 | Although the king from time to time forbade ‘ puture ’ — the contributions in money and in kind exacted by the foresters — the levying of puture seems to have become a general practice at least by the fourteenth century . |
| 9 | It 's really about time we tackled Manuela , who seems to have become a recurring reference point in this story . |
| 10 | Industry seems to have become a driving force of strident activity , against which background human beings , the miners , are " like shadows " . |
| 11 | More extensive use of video film and exemplary sentencing may discourage the ultra-violent minority , but the assembling of large mobs of chanting and charging youngsters at the ‘ ends ’ seems to have become an established part of youth culture . |