Example sentences of "became [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , I did n't go to the hairdresser once during the five months I was in Private Lives and my hair became healthier from not being subjected to heated rollers or setting lotion . |
| 2 | The inland areas became lower than the silty areas near the coast and lower than the river channels . |
| 3 | They became lower . |
| 4 | The explanation suddenly became simpler . |
| 5 | Her touch became lighter until all I could feel was the heat radiating from her palms . |
| 6 | ( Described by her adoring husband early in their marriage ) ‘ Her eyes seemed bigger to him , especially when she was just waking up and fluttered her lids several times in succession ; they were black when she was in shadow and dark blue in full daylight ; and they seemed to contain layer upon layer of colours , which were thicker in hue deep down , and became lighter towards the enamel-like surface . ’ |
| 7 | And the still , small voice which persisted in whispering ‘ too good to be true ’ gradually , very gradually , became fainter . |
| 8 | Commodity and stock exchanges multiplied as dealing by sample became easier thanks to technical improvements and standardization . |
| 9 | In any case , although some of the speeches became tougher ( in tabloid terms he began to slam and lash Labour ) , his delivery has never matched the words . |
| 10 | In Scotland , sales at Thins got off to a good start in December , became tougher , then ended with a gallop . |
| 11 | As the economy developed , the Jews became wealthier ; and although everyone benefited from their presence , few realized the benefit , whereas many felt the pressure of the interest the Jews demanded . |
| 12 | The road system built up since the Romans had come to serve a much heavier traffic load in the later Middle Ages as the county became wealthier . |
| 13 | A more sophisticated girl would have realised that her enthusiasm was being ruthlessly exploited as the tasks she was given became broader and more demanding , but Constance happily did everything she was told . |
| 14 | Gradually the streets became broader , the squares larger and less crowded with traders . |
| 15 | As generations went by , some strategies became scarcer and eventually went extinct . |
| 16 | Two appointments were made : Molly Sheavyn , who became Further Education and Youth Officer " , and Mark Frame , by then the Rev Mark Frame , who had been Honorary Secretary since 1951 . |
| 17 | Characteristically stories became shorter over time , and the individual relies on particular detail around which to structure the recall . |
| 18 | Where the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave way to the nineteenth , things became crisper : you read of a profusion of Elizas and Thomases , of beloved wives and lamented parents : white marble crept in with the grey limestone . |
| 19 | But the coal was not cleaned up , and although British towns became cleaner , Britain continued to pour around five million tonnes of sulphur per year into the upper air , to be blown into Europe . |
| 20 | An amazing difference occurred ; the guitar suddenly became cleaner , clearer when played acoustically and through an amp , plus I still had full use of the tremolo unit . |
| 21 | They climbed ever more steeply , and the streets broadened , became cleaner . |
| 22 | The searching self-portraits of Rembrandt in approaching old age , as he became uglier and poorer and more grimy , were acclaimed as masterpieces in preference to the earlier elegant portraiture of his society period . |
| 23 | A long , sleek C-pillar gave the car a more muscular look and the side scoops became bigger and wider . |
| 24 | Laboratories and institutes established by charitable foundations became bigger : the Rockefeller Institute in New York was renamed the Rockefeller University in 1977 to reflect the scale of its research and education . |
| 25 | Gradually , the cracks in the limestone became bigger and bigger and water began to flow through them . |
| 26 | The other COSE firms were approached to support an effort that became bigger than Hewlett and IBM could handle alone . |
| 27 | The other COSE companies — principally Sun Microsystems Inc with Unix System Laboratories Inc and Santa Cruz Operation Inc — were approached to support an effort that became bigger than Hewlett and IBM could handle alone . |
| 28 | The other COSE firms were approached to support an effort that became bigger than HP and IBM could handle alone . |
| 29 | A BP spokesman said that the company was taking no action to seek alternative methods of transport until events in Panama became clearer . |
| 30 | The absurdity became clearer if one imagined twenty or thirty writers from another era occupying the air-conditioned coach that took us from the Hyde Park Regis to the Riverside . |