Example sentences of "become [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ten years ago they were Bulgarians , but now they 've become Macedonians ’ . |
| 2 | Western societies have become drug orientated . |
| 3 | Nezzar , 54 , had become Defence Minister in July 1990 and was regarded as one of the most influential members of the HCS , having supervised the two states of siege imposed during Chadli 's presidency , in October 1988 and June 1991 [ see pp. 36507 ; 38312 ] . |
| 4 | It is also unusual in including material about peace-keeping operations , a testing form of soldiering in which the Canadian armed forces have become experts in the last four decades . |
| 5 | Although the land mass is huge — stretching from Korea to Pakistan , the USSR to Vietnam — only a small proportion of the land can be farmed , which is why over centuries the Chinese have become experts at using scarce resources . |
| 6 | BANKS seem to have become experts at shooting themselves in the foot . |
| 7 | Clovis and the Franks might easily have become arian . |
| 8 | Miss Evans had become Auntie Lou and it seemed they had known her for ever . |
| 9 | Views were being sought by 30 July on a proposed change in the 1985 Companies Act to exempt from disclosure in client company accounts payments for non-audit services made to companies which have become associates of an audit firm solely because it has gained voting rights in them in an insolvency appointment . |
| 10 | We learn from a visit Emilia made to Simon Forman [ q.v. ] , astrologer , in 1597 , that she had been a favourite at the court of Elizabeth , had become mistress of Henry Carey , first Baron Hunsdon [ q.v. ] , and had been ‘ maintained in great pomp ’ until 1592 , when , becoming pregnant , she was married to Captain Alphonso Lanier , of the other leading family of court musicians , the Laniers , who came to London from Rouen in 1561 . |
| 11 | Plants had become sticks , leaves were rags of wet , black plastic , tree branches were bones with arthritic joints . |
| 12 | Some of the flowers , those wild flowers have become honesty . |
| 13 | Have become honesty . |
| 14 | By 1850 Smołdzino had become Schmolsin , Łeba had become Leba , Wierzuchino had become Wierschutzin , Sasino had become Sarbskie . |
| 15 | Steve Foley has become Colchester 's caretaker-manager for a second time , Jock Wallace having been appointed a director last week — ‘ I will do all in my power to help the club , ’ he said . |
| 16 | William Koch , whose investment group owns 36.4% of Kendall Square Research Inc , has become chairman in place of company founder Henry Burkhardt III , who remains president and CEO . |
| 17 | By the end of September the Bolsheviks had gained majority support in both the Moscow and Petrograd soviets , where Trotsky had become chairman . |
| 18 | The historic debate which led to the adoption of the new name was presided over by the Rev Alan Mackenzie who had become Chairman in 1967 . |
| 19 | Lit claims to have become chairman of four companies which control between them 45 per cent of Spectrum 's stock and is pledging to fight Harmony Investments to the end . |
| 20 | Capt. Valentine E. M. Strasser , the 27-year-old junior officer who had become chairman of the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) after leading an April coup [ see pp. 38853-4 ; 38900 ] , made a series of changes in July to both the composition and structure of the government . |
| 21 | In the last ten years she had also been a magistrate , and had become chairman of the Committee of Magistrates . |
| 22 | Ken Rogers OBE FCIT , who was chairman of the East Anglia Section for 1988–9 has become chairman of RTITB Services Ltd . |
| 23 | Former Leeward Islands and Combined Islands opening batsman Vance Amory has become Premier of Nevis , his native island . |
| 24 | Proceeding up the Madison River , the fugitives entered what in 1872 had become Yellowstone National Park , and were guided east by a captured prospector , John Shively . |
| 25 | Neil Mackechnie , 40 , has become Elsom 's Seeds sales representative for parts of North Yorkshire , County Durham and Cleveland , while Mark Driffield , 33 , becomes representative for the area of Yorkshire south of Northallerton down to York . |
| 26 | Before 1547 he had become vicar of the collegiate church of Norton in Cleveland , and a prebendary of Beverley , Burton-upon-Trent , and St Stephens in Westminster , appointments which ( with the exception of Norton ) were lost due to the dissolution of the colleges in 1548 . |
| 27 | Two months later , the growing recognition of the terrible price people were paying for their belief in Hitler — that the ‘ hope of millions ’ had become Germany 's ruin — was reflected in bitter allusions to the Führer 's ‘ mission ’ . |
| 28 | In total this has involved the transfer of around 650,000 employees , the majority of whom ( some 90% ) have become shareholders in the companies they work for . |
| 29 | By the 1940s , physiological chemistry had become biochemistry and biochemistry was a flourishing science which spread into almost every aspect of animal , plant , and microbial life . |
| 30 | The phrases have become metaphors , some writers suggest , for all the zest and excitement that drives the Pacific 's inhabitants ever onward . |