Example sentences of "become [adv] " in BNC.

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1 As a consequence , when there is pressure in other areas , the personnel department may become inadequately resourced .
2 She does not become criminally liable merely by assisting her husband to escape punishment for a crime which she knows him to have committed ; and it is only within certain limits that husband and wife are competent , and within narrower limits that they are compellable , to give evidence against one another , in criminal proceedings .
3 To be more specific , he showed that , if chemical substances react in a medium through which they can diffuse , it is not always true that the reactants will become uniformly distributed .
4 Candida is one of the yeasts that has this versatile approach to life , and the relevance of this will become clear later .
5 The decreased release of serotonin was also associated with a change in the presynaptic membrane properties , in particular , with a reduction in the flow of calcium across the membrane and into the synapse — again the biochemical significance of this will become clear later .
6 ( For reasons that will become clear later , the schedule is irrelevant in the Keynesian system . )
7 In about five years , if things go well , Biohybrid pancreases could become widely available .
8 As Stocking has shown , an innovation may be shown to be effective but not adopted widely , whereas another innovation may not have been demonstrated to be effective yet can become widely accepted in practice .
9 Only when it was made into a glitzy film by Steven Spielberg did it become widely read and talked about outside feminist circles .
10 In the course of his fieldwork the anthropologist will observe in considerable detail the day-to-day interactions of a few hundred individuals with many of whom he will eventually become intimately acquainted .
11 But in its more extended and generalized uses it can become remarkably similar to the ‘ informing spirit ’ of idealist cultural theories , and this can still be so when it offers ( but does not include or specify ) a ‘ last instance ’ referral to the economy or to the mode of production .
12 But to speak out publicly without fear of retribution statisticians must become wholly independent of government , as happens in many other European countries .
13 District and borough councils will become wholly responsible for cleaning all roads except motorways .
14 Thus the compulsive relationship with physical exercise can become effectively part of the spectrum of eating disorder behaviour .
15 In the new year , Lithuania , together with the other two Baltic republics of Latvia and Estonia , will become economically autonomous within the Soviet Union .
16 Over the next ten years , China will become economically more liberal , internationally more friendly :
17 It may therefore become economically and politically expedient to encourage a shift to more labour intensive methods of primary production .
18 Another Yorkshire pit , Markham Main , could become economically viable if there was weekend working and longer shifts , but the colliery would require an extensive amount of development and ‘ substantial improvement ’ in the work ethos , said the report .
19 Unless action is taken soon , many rural areas will become economically unsustainable .
20 Either choice leads to a rippled scoop , where the unsuspecting will become acutely aware of the inadequacy of the handholds , or what passes for them .
21 A person with IBS who has ignored the symptoms for years may become acutely aware of them when a close relative succumbs to cancer .
22 Some would suffer from the cold , others from the heat , and still others would become badly matted and tangled without their daily grooming .
23 We have seen how societies in which large numbers of deaf people co-exist with hearing people can become predominantly ‘ deaf ’ and bilingual in spoken and sign language ( Groce , 1985 ) , and also how some mixed families can become ‘ deaf ’ in an attempt to fully integrate a deaf child ( Fletcher , 1987 ; Luterman , 1987 ) .
24 Here one problem of panels becomes clear : with all the best intentions , panel members may be considered to be specially interested in volunteering for , or accepting an invitation to join , a certain panel , and after a time the panel member can become rather too self-conscious and sophisticated .
25 It is also perfectly in order to say , ‘ May I think about that for a moment ? ’ before answering a question , although clearly it would become rather tedious if you said that every time .
26 But even an issue such as camping can become rather central if it is of importance to one partner .
27 It may eventually become rather twiggy but thinning will improve its shape
28 Unfortunately , the distortion can easily become rather boxy , unless the EQ is just right .
29 However , thick board can become rather difficult to cut through , and six-sheet board is a good average thickness with which to work .
30 Healthy , lustrous hair will complement any cut , although at this time of year it may become rather depressed after the exhausting effects of the sun and sea .
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