Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] become a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now scientific education and research were to become a major feature of America 's drive to supplant Europe as the centre of western culture . |
| 2 | Today the black ghetto 's become a model for everybody 's experience : the city 's no longer a place of opportunity but a ‘ hell ’ to be survived . |
| 3 | The intended budget of £5 million could reap benefits in a city where tourist revenue is becoming a principal source of wealth . |
| 4 | The computer fraud is becoming a big business , yeah ? |
| 5 | Making up the trio will be Mr Andrews ' 18-year-old grandson Daniel Fearn , whose ambition is to become a fireman . |
| 6 | If your ultimate ambition is to become a faceless , top-hat-and-tailed number at a Buckingham Palace Garden Party , getting to shake the monarch 's glove and putting three meaningless letters after your name then you should worry . |
| 7 | Gareth 's eventual ambition is to become a freelance commercial artists taking on commissions for a living . |
| 8 | RAMSEY Island off the Pembrokeshire coast is to become a nature reserve managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 9 | Loretta speculated to herself that Bridget 's nerve was becoming a little less steady now that her own involvement in the affair was taking on a more practical aspect . |
| 10 | His first intention was to become a psychiatrist . |
| 11 | A return to office by Labour after thirteen years of Conservative rule was becoming a distinct possibility . |
| 12 | He looked back at the light coming from the observatory cupboard , now a good twenty feet away , and thought about going back ; this whole prank was becoming a bit much , really . |
| 13 | She was afraid of staying single all her life and everything she had ever been told supported the belief that a woman 's highest ambition was to become a wife and mother . |
| 14 | On returning to the Secondary School he had told the staff that his ambition was to become a teacher , which was politic . |
| 15 | Well , now the thing is , right what I 've thought might be like a good thing , er cos we all like entertainments , is like if Riot Girl were to become a society , |
| 16 | The work 's become a bit more mysterious . |
| 17 | The work 's become a bit more mysterious . |
| 18 | There was no doubting that Saturday 's was a better performance for Ards than the 5– defeat by Cliftonville the week before , but goalscoring is becoming a real problem . |
| 19 | The joint campaign is becoming a reality for the two companies , which first joined forces to explore the potential of the East European market some 18 months ago . |
| 20 | These principles should n't be forgotten or cease to be put into effect simply because your child is becoming a young adult . |
| 21 | Recycling Though costly , recycling is becoming a popular way to cut waste volumes . |
| 22 | Home ownership is becoming a reality for people with a learning difficulty in the USA , as Terry Philpot discovered |
| 23 | Bureaucracy was becoming a major issue in contemporary China . |
| 24 | Despite the policy commitment to developmental work in Nottinghamshire social services department , the CMHTs were under great pressure to take on a normal casework function even in advance of developing needed services : health service priorities favoured immediate casework support ; area teams in the social services department hoped to off-load casework with mentally handicapped people — not least to focus more fully on work with children and families ; and the social workers recruited to the CMHTs were confident in their casework skills but needed to adopt new roles , skills , and ways of working if development work was to become a reality . |
| 25 | Dynmouth was becoming a nasty kind of place . |
| 26 | Communist influence in the ILP Guild of Youth led to its virtual disruption at the end of 1934 and the Revolutionary Policy Committee was becoming a Communist instrument . |
| 27 | Much as poetry was becoming a part of him , his most natural form of self-expression , and the one that reached him first , was music ; side-by-side they were to advance with him throughout his developing days and early professional life . |
| 28 | By the end of the Regency period the pub was becoming a far more attractive proposition for the government , too . |
| 29 | In Flanders , the count 's peace was becoming a meaningful concept , at fair times at least . |
| 30 | But when it became clear that the disagreement was becoming a hot issue , they gave way … only to find they 'd misinterpreted the producer 's fractured English . |