Example sentences of "[vb base] become [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Roh Tae Woo became the first South Korean head of state to make an official trip to the Soviet Union when he arrived in Moscow on Dec. 13 at the beginning of a four-day visit . |
| 2 | Leaving behind their Stalinist-era organisation and programme , Poland 's Communists want to become a left-wing parliamentary party capable of winning elections . |
| 3 | Eddie Bleasdale , managing director of Bleasdale Computer Systems , sums up : ‘ We never want to become a big company because it is just not our scene . |
| 4 | And if there were n't enough Mansoori boys of the right age for Mansoori girls then the answer was either spinsterhood or a long wait to become the second wife of an older man . |
| 5 | Then the two , who hope to become the first men to walk 2,200 miles unsupported across Antarctica , battled on to set up a camp and radio their base . |
| 6 | Governors at Gillbrook School in South Bank hope to become the first grant maintained school in the North-East . |
| 7 | Misreading the clues , they head off in completely the wrong direction and manage to become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on one of the islands of Derwentwater . |
| 8 | He restated his " firm resolve to become a clean president … and … to root out any fraud and irregularities and achieve clean and honest government " . |
| 9 | Why the women change mid-career — in the early books they 're pathetic , victims , and then suddenly , when du Maurier reaches her forties , these women start becoming the strong ones . |
| 10 | This composition — two figures moving across one another and turning back as they do becomes a regular ‘ strife-motive ’ in classical art ; the west pediment of the Parthenon ( fig. 132 ) is a major example . |
| 11 | You 'll get much more out of the tutorial and feel you " belong " , once you 've become a regular contributing member of the learning group . |
| 12 | Oxfam aid workers say they 've become the new targets in the war in Somalia . |
| 13 | Since getting the equipment two years ago , I 've become an avid collector of compact discs — to a point little short of addiction . |
| 14 | Have you ever thought , ruefully , that far from raising an obedient child you 've become an obedient parent ? |
| 15 | The Waipu club , who are considering an appeal against the local union suspension , had better make sure of their ground unless they wish to become a laughing stock . |
| 16 | Apply to the Secretary if you wish to become a commercial pupil . |
| 17 | The case has been made that neutralisation is potentially attractive only to relatively minor states that by virtue of their strategic position or symbolic political value have become or threaten to become the focal points of contests for control or dominant influence between principal regional or global rivals . |
| 18 | And you tend to become the best of friends with the guy next to you . |
| 19 | Their calls are also very intricate , and the sounds of some of them , the young , sexually mature humpback males , are so haunting that they have become a best-selling record . |
| 20 | It is also true that in the late 1970s and early 1980s unemployed school-leavers have become a longer-term and therefore more serious problem . |
| 21 | Forced to reply the following July to acknowledge a sum of fifty francs from Theo , he said grimly that he was writing ‘ with some reluctance ’ because ‘ you have become a total stranger to me , and I have become the same to you . ’ |
| 22 | THE FIVE counties making up the south western corner of England have become a prime target for supermarket development . |
| 23 | They have become a prime target for teenage joyriders who often set fire to stolen cars when they have finished with them . |
| 24 | Then , at the beginning of this week , the ANC and a group of South African academics and businessmen chose London as the scene of the latest in the series of black-white encounters which have become a regular feature of South African political life , while Mrs Thatcher gave interviews to four leading black journalists . |
| 25 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |
| 26 | Since then , IMF loans and rescheduling arrangements have become a regular feature of economic life . |
| 27 | ‘ Ozone smogs ’ have become a regular feature of the hot and sunny summers we 've been having recently . |
| 28 | A programme was developed , and meetings have become a regular event . |
| 29 | Auctions of marine paintings have become a regular feature of the season , but this is the first to take place in January . |
| 30 | CCG have become a recognised examination centre for the City and Guilds Joint Certificate for Catering and the Licensed Trade . |