Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] become a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Edna had left school , she more or less became a fixture in the household and there was no doubt that Celia was a much happier and more tractable baby under her young but competent handling . |
| 2 | It 's an interesting thought that the images of every day life that we all make today , will sooner or later become a part of this heritage . |
| 3 | And then , if I have achieved the aim of helping teachers understand their predicament , I hope that they may feel more purposeful , both individually and collectively , and thereby become a more powerful source of ideas and projects for the improvement of schooling , which are grounded simultaneously in a clear sense of educational values and an equally clear-sighted , hard-headed sense of what is possible and appropriate . |
| 4 | prepare detailed specifications of plant items and thereby become a discerning and knowledgeable purchaser of equipment and services ; |
| 5 | I 'd rather take that approach , and what I would suggest is that , wherever possible , teachers should think about involving parents in the kinds of difficulties that the child is having in school , and thereby becomes a team effort rather than parents working one direction and perhaps teachers working in another . |
| 6 | By virtue of not developing , you stand still and eventually become an anachronism . ’ |
| 7 | Her brother , Merfyn , began training with his uncle as a motor engineer and eventually became a technical journalist . |
| 8 | In ancient times this magnificent monument must have been much admired and it is hardly surprising that Imhotep was remembered as a great man and eventually became a god . |
| 9 | His second son John West Wilson was a resident agent in Gothenburg and eventually became a naturalized Swede . |
| 10 | He began by building up the scout movement in the NorthEast and eventually became a scout commissioner . |
| 11 | Slatter also served on the county committee for 30 years , edited the club handbook , and eventually became an Honorary member of both Buckinghamshire and the Minor Counties Cricket Association . |
| 12 | he never took much part in college life and eventually became an object of derision among medical students , who called him ‘ Mummy Jones ’ . |
| 13 | How the hell did a man stop being an agent and suddenly become a civil servant ? |
| 14 | The leather baggage and glass cosmetic pots of the day were too heavy to take on the plane but she managed to find lighter substitutes and so became a pioneer of lightweight luggage , as well as a pioneer female passenger . |
| 15 | And so become a just judge — of theirs . ’ |
| 16 | Had ICI focused earlier on shareholder value creation , he said , it would not have allowed a value gap to develop and so become a target for Hanson 's predatory schemes . |
| 17 | The worst fate that could befall any relative or follower was to be declared a ‘ broken man ’ : that is , either by punitive official proceedings or by some family banishment , to be removed from the protection of the surname and so become an outlaw , fair prey for any enemy , English or Scottish . |
| 18 | The dominant Labour Party included large sections of industrial South Wales which was openly hostile , fearing that devolution would separate Wales from the economic and social structure of England and perhaps become a paradise for linguistic nationalists . |
| 19 | Models or paintings might be made and perhaps become a similar basis for talk . |
| 20 | He could throw his lot in with the Lord General , and perhaps become a governor of one of the colony worlds . |
| 21 | Yet Louth-born Wilkinson was a midfield player as a schoolboy and only became a forward by accident . |
| 22 | But then again , the Golden Höfner was the flagship of the company 's electric hollow-bodied range between ‘ 59 and ‘ 62 and naturally became a platform for showing just what could be done . |
| 23 | Amphibious raiding along the Channel coast and elsewhere became a coordinated intelligence gathering operation in preparation for the opening of a Second Front by the invasion of Europe , plans for which entailed amphibious training for large armies , pre-empting men and equipment from possible large raids . |
| 24 | This attractive black-white mammal widely liked by people and already become a symbol of conservation efforts … |
| 25 | Through watching his father in these activities , the boy gradually learns how to handle his digging-stick , and thus becomes a practical agriculturist . |
| 26 | Chaucer 's Reeve , for Olson , is revealed as a judge who will not temper strict retributive justice with mercy , and thus becomes a character who is liable to strict justice himself . |
| 27 | Management may be able to establish Newco , obtain commitments to subscribe share capital from the employees and collect in their money , which could support a bridging loan to enable Newco to acquire Target and thus become a holding company . |
| 28 | In that way it would increase the number of such clients supported and thus become an even more cost-effective service . |
| 29 | The starter motor worked perfectly and soon became a much sought-after Cadillac feature quickly adopted by all car makers . |
| 30 | She had arrived in Paris in 1912 and soon became a good friend of Soutine and a familiar Montparnasse character . |