Example sentences of "[vb infin] become [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONE CAN but wish the publishers of all good luck in getting their money back on this book , for , much as all cricketers should not only strive to become good fielders but enjoy the process of improving their game , how many will lash out nigh on £15 for a manual to help them do so ? |
| 2 | SCOTTISH companies could choose to become major players in the £136 billion world market for green technologies , or risk being left behind in the race to win orders , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 3 | The Board 's aim is to ensure that offshore financial activities are run properly so that the islands can avoid becoming potential breeding grounds for illegal activities . |
| 4 | If Vance had been able to convince 17 Politburo members that a far-reaching restructuring of strategic forces was in the Soviet interest , this would have become Soviet policy . |
| 5 | The stars will have become black holes . |
| 6 | Whether or not he would eventually have become chief executive is academic : the move to Provincial seems to have met a need to apply what is generally considered to be the sharp mind and highly effective set of skills of this simultaneously affable and well-organised character to a more absorbing challenge . |
| 7 | In the eighteenth century he would have become prime minister before he was thirty ; as it was he appeared honourably ineligible for the struggle of life . |
| 8 | In 1963 he fell only 31 votes short of being elected Labour leader ; he might have become prime minister . |
| 9 | By next year , she is confident that two thirds of hospitals will have become self-governing trusts within the NHS . |
| 10 | Some of them may have become bottom living , crawling hunters for which a gastropod-like shell would have been more appropriate . |
| 11 | During a transitional period , which ended in 1987 , accountants holding recognised auditing qualifications from any EC country could apply to become qualified auditors ( reviseurs d'entreprises ) in Luxembourg without being required to pass any supplementary examinations in Luxembourg . |
| 12 | The arguments against include : members should not be forced to share facilities with women , the pavilion may be too small , the pavilion has no women 's toilets , women have adequate facilities of their own , some men wish to get away from women , and ‘ lady subscribers ’ might not wish to become full members . |
| 13 | What ‘ right ’ would B have to become Prime Minister ? |
| 14 | Patros would have to become Prime Minister , too , so that we could be sure that the money would be repaid . |
| 15 | It is widely assumed that the general , who has been doing his best to fan the speculation , will try to become prime minister after he leaves the army . |
| 16 | Young readers taught by an approach that stresses decoding ( accurate word-for-word reproduction of what is on the page ) may fail to become proficient readers . |
| 17 | Moreover , if God were always intervening to get us out of difficulties or dangers , we should never learn to become responsible people . |