Example sentences of "[to-vb] become [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other cells especially sensitive to light became vestigial eyes , and those susceptible to vibrations became hearing organs , and so on . |
| 2 | ‘ We need help to try to become whole people , and to learn to start liking something about ourselves . ’ |
| 3 | Peasant co-operatives were allowed to opt to become limited liability companies , shares in which might subsequently be sold to those who were not themselves farmers . |
| 4 | And he has a particular person he would like to see become Prime Minister . ’ |
| 5 | Probably many urban employers in the new forms of manufacture would have liked more of their workers to have become self-disciplined Methodists , but it was the employers of the village-dwelling miners who could already appreciate the benefits by the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | They came in all shapes and sizes ; and all of them claimed to have become permanent partners . |
| 7 | In the UK , Sun Microsystems ' drive to flush out some of the value-added resellers which it says do n't actually offer any value-add ( UX No 399 ) , will take the form of a new contract which they 'll have to sign to become authorised VARs . |
| 8 | Why , for example , did Molla Iwad ( Molla Ivaz ) , who was eventually to rise to become Rumeli kazasker , stay on at the Sahn at one point in his career , twice refusing appointments to higher medreses ( those of Murad II in Bursa and of Bayezid II in Edirne ) before accepting an appointment to the Ayasofya medrese ? |