Example sentences of "become an " in BNC.
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| 1 | As ‘ social dirt ’ they become an affront to purity and possess the danger of the contagious and impure ( Douglas 1966 ) , requiring their removal from the public vision . |
| 2 | There is no reason , and he declines the verbal advice he has been given by his Inspector , so this has now become an ‘ order ’ . |
| 3 | Liberal commitment to free speech must also be tested in this way , lest it become an unthinking orthodoxy — a mere article of faith . |
| 4 | Will children with Down 's syndrome become an endangered species ? |
| 5 | Has Tony Adams , such a raw youth in Germany , become an adequate challenger to Butcher ? |
| 6 | The less biographical or historical evidence there is for this view of Milton , the more the scholars believe it , producing readings of Paradise Lost which ignore Lewis 's golden rule , ‘ You must , so far as in you lies , become an Achaean chief while reading Homer , a medieval knight while reading Malory , and an Eighteenth Century Londoner while reading Johnson . |
| 7 | It did n't grow into The Libertine magazine and become an anti-censorship campaign until after I met Colin . ’ |
| 8 | The very parochial stuffiness that the Stones reacted against had somehow become an alluring and reproachful memory . |
| 9 | Have n't the Communists already become an irrelevance , in a country that is changing so fast ? |
| 10 | Although he had been nominated as a conservative by Protestant Unionists within the constituency , he had quickly become an O'Neill supporter . |
| 11 | But there comes a point at which audio-visual presentations take over from being an aid to the speaker and become an end in themselves . |
| 12 | At what stage does a graduated line become an elongated triangle ? |
| 13 | It has recently become an issue because it is so visible and entirely unregulated . |
| 14 | Staff become an asset in which to invest , to be developed so as to help the organisation achieve its aims and objectives . |
| 15 | Many of the elms have been replaced by Cupressus , notably the 18th fairway boundary hedge which has quickly become an effective screen and pleasing to look at . |
| 16 | Women 's writing in the period has recently become an area of scholarly interest . |
| 17 | By virtue of not developing , you stand still and eventually become an anachronism . ’ |
| 18 | The austere Republican image , formerly restricted by law to the nobility and to the families of serving magistrates , had by now become an expression of Roman identity . |
| 19 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
| 20 | ‘ That goes out of the window when you become an outlaw . |
| 21 | These centres are the pioneers , the pace-setters for a pattern of training that may , one day , become an integral part of many agricultural colleges . |
| 22 | Despite this , arrest for questioning has quickly become an attractive option for the police . |
| 23 | Moreover , once this premise is accepted there is less reason to seek to cure it ; pain , illness and disease become an accepted consequence of old age . |
| 24 | In that way it would increase the number of such clients supported and thus become an even more cost-effective service . |
| 25 | For young adults , hazards in the work environment become an added area of responsibility in the AL of maintaining a safe environment and the degree and type of danger vary according to the nature of the work . |
| 26 | When the 1st World War broke out , eight years later , Harry was still there , the longest-serving member of the playing staff , having helped our favourites to rise within an ace of the Southern League championship and become an established and respected club . |
| 27 | Within two years Kenny was captain of the England Youth team , had skippered the Palace Juniors to the FA Youth Cup triumph of 1977 and become an ever-present member of the Palace 's side that won promotion from Division Three . |
| 28 | The host or hostess also gets a commission if one of the guests decides to hold a similar party , and become an agent for the company . |
| 29 | He had then become an object of often severely critical interest to the Veterinarian , the journal founded in 1828 by William Percivall to reform , it said , certain alleged abuse in the College . |
| 30 | The Tiller fame and fortune had also become an attraction for hangers-on to members of his family . |