Example sentences of "[vb pp] become [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover it was confined to members of the Labour Party , its first rule stating that " all members are expected to become individual members of their constituency Labour Parties " . |
| 2 | They settled on a series of four or five plays which are notable for anticipating subjects destined to become central issues in the sixties : student revolt , the hippie movement , violence and so on . |
| 3 | What 's more , Vladimir Popovic , who took charge of Red Star last season , has quit to become national team manager of Peru . |
| 4 | SunSoft vice president of sales and marketing Bill Larson has moved to become vice president of SunSolutions , the Sun Tech unit responsible for groupware like Show Me . |
| 5 | Secondly , and particularly in the Eastern District , the former , mutually supportive relationships between the Cambridge Board of Extra-Mural Studies and the District gradually shifted to become uneasy collaboration when the 1924 Regulations were interpreted and applied more flexibly as provision expanded . |
| 6 | Precisely what she disliked most about them was what interested him ; she knew that he wondered whether they could be persuaded to become sleeping partners in the revolution a phrase which she used and he approved with a dry smile and a nod . |
| 7 | Additionally , Blake was involved in checking Communist infiltration into the British sector and as part of these duties he began to learn Russian and had some officially approved contact with the Russians as part of a plan to see whether any of them could be persuaded to become British agents . |
| 8 | Here Greek temples were adapted to become Byzantine churches — as at Syracuse ( p. 21 ) — and new churches were built , particularly in Sicily . |
| 9 | A similar focus on the war 's effect in shattering class barriers is present in In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , where the trigger to unity is a torpedoed destroyer rather than a crashed plane , The Gentle Sex ( 1943 ) , which follows a group of women as they are trained to become competent fighters , and Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) , which brings together a mixed group of girls in an aircraft engineering factory . |
| 10 | It read : I am so glad to have been asked to become Royal Patron of the British Deaf Association . |
| 11 | Approximately 10% of those infected become chronic carriers who can infect their families and patients , and have 12 to 300 times greater than normal risk of developing liver cancer . |
| 12 | Andrew Young has been promoted to become National Account Manager in the Cash and Carry and Wholesale Sector from his former job as National Account Executive in the same sector . |
| 13 | The workers , replaced by sheep and by mechanised farming techniques , were forced to become landless proletarians , dependent on employment in a labour market . |
| 14 | Throughout the '60s , the National festivals grew rapidly and were forced to become movable feasts due to constant licensing hassles — Windsor in '66 and '67 , Kempton Park '68 , Plumpton '69 and '70 . |
| 15 | However , the 1989 White Paper , Working for Patients , has caused some concern that an unprofitable and expensive service like geriatric provision may be reduced if hospitals and GPs are encouraged to become self-managing budget holders , whose first goal must be to contain costs . |
| 16 | At the south-western corner of the city walls two smaller castles were built , Baynard 's and Mountfichet , but never allowed to become great fortresses ; and they were finally removed from this strategic place by Edward I in the late thirteenth century : by a king whose mighty works at the Tower mirrored his determination to keep the Londoners under firm control ; but who greatly expanded the western end and formed a large new enclosure there for the Dominican friars , who could help him to ensure that no hostile presence met him when he came from Westminster to the City . |
| 17 | The black middle classes were allowed to become professional people — doctors , lawyers , civil servants , etc. — but that was their limit . |
| 18 | In February , however , it was reported that the group would not after all be allowed to become permanent residents because of doubts about their dissident credentials . |
| 19 | But with prize-money soaring to £500,000 a race , he is poised to become American motor sport 's biggest earner . |
| 20 | Peering up , Horowitz saw the narrow ‘ blinds ’ had swivelled to become mere rims . |
| 21 | In 1911 he was chosen to become general manager of the London and South Western Railway and remained there till 1923 . |