Example sentences of "[adv] to become a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gallery , which has been built in to become a small room , faces the gate as you enter under the arch . |
| 2 | THE newly-found Aarseth-Brewington comet should brighten rapidly this month as it sweeps southwards through Ophiuchus in our morning sky , perhaps to become a naked eye object before it dips too far south to be seen from Britain . |
| 3 | THE newly-found Aarseth-Brewington comet should brighten rapidly this month as it sweeps southwards through Ophiuchus in our morning sky , perhaps to become a naked eye object before it dips too far south to be seen from Britain . |
| 4 | Picking up tips did not just come in the form of money , for Dave learned enough to become a single-figure handicap golfer by 1967 . |
| 5 | He had thought that he was good enough to become a professional stage designer , and Dinah had disabused him . |
| 6 | We know that the School is not large enough to become a comprehensive unit itself , and even if it were large enough , we would not wish to change its character completely in that way . |
| 7 | It was tolerated well enough to become a useful drug , but it had a very brief period of action ; 6-MP is attacked by the enzyme xanthine oxidase , a normal constituent of the human body ( and of widespread occurrence elsewhere ) and is converted to a substance , thio-uric acid , which is not active against tumours . |
| 8 | Your new low-fat , low-sugar , low-salt , high-fibre way of eating should be enjoyable enough to become a permanent way of life and be a tremendous help in preventing you from regaining weight . |
| 9 | An apparent opportunity for , or at least inclination to , US participation in Vietnamese national affairs as suggested in Saigon was soon to become a recognized imperative in Washington : and when the French ministers arrived in October 1950 to ask how much could be expected from the US to avoid financial disaster it was the drain of resources in Vietnam as much as the problems of French rearmament in Europe which prompted a close examination of French budgetary as well as military plans . |
| 10 | Despite such wise and imaginative intervention ( by Neville Chamberlain ) the catastrophic threat was , of course , soon to become a gruesome reality ( the war broke out less than a year later ) . |
| 11 | Their miraculous transformation from a persecuted minority into a privileged élite , soon to become a dominant majority , was not an experience for which they were intellectually or spiritually well prepared . |
| 12 | Beset by illness — with Gooch himself the most damaging victim of the last few weeks — and bemused by Indian spin , England must pull themselves together if a bitterly disappointing tour is not to become a total disaster . |
| 13 | The problem of interpretation is compounded in considering MPs occupation and interests ; it was not unusual for a young man from a landed family to be called to the Bar ( but not to practice ) , to serve in the armed forces ( but not to become a professional soldier ) , and then to settle down to a political career with several directorships . |
| 14 | These two limbs are essential to a candidate 's training and he ought not to become a corporate member until he satisfies both requirements . ’ |
| 15 | Its aim , he says , is not to become a commercial body but to point users towards products and technologies that support their interests . |
| 16 | In fact , you know I 'm consciously now not to become a Welsh accent because if I 've got the Welsh accent added to it all it 'll be horrendous ! |
| 17 | When I saw the potential ability of so many of my opponents and how young so many of them were , I realised that I would have to devote more time to practice than there was in a day just to become a moderate professional . |
| 18 | The reclaiming of the trade by the men was nevertheless to become a permanent reality , as an editorial in The Vote had correctly predicted.73 It is possible that if the war had not intervened , the men would in any case have been able to secure the prolonging of the ban on women beyond June 1916 . |
| 19 | My uncle worships alone these days , and has done ever since his son left home to become a devout Capitalist ( neither his wife nor his daughter had ever bothered with my Uncle 's unique brand of condemnationist Christianity ; as a rule , the McHoan women , whether so by blood or marriage , have displayed a marked reluctance to take their men-folk 's passions seriously , at least outside the bedroom ) . |
| 20 | Under Wolff 's chairmanship from 1876 , the firm had grown quickly to become a serious competitor of the Clyde-based Gourock Ropework Company , the largest rope-makers in the world . |
| 21 | By the time Tony Crosland became Secretary of State ( following Michael Stewart , Labour 's first Secretary of State for Education ) he was overcoming his initial resistance to the binary idea , and was quickly to become a firm advocate . |
| 22 | He remained in this post until 1860 , when he was replaced by Marshal Vaillant and the Ministry of State was hived off to become a separate office . |
| 23 | Europe 's laudable ambition also to become a gleaming citadel of environmental protection ( for which the European Parliament was calling the other day ) may have the same effect . |
| 24 | It was not a coincidence that Tom Taylor , later to become a Labour peer and the principal author of another report , was one of the newly appointed members of the Commission . |
| 25 | His close friendship with Beatrix Potter [ q.v. ] encouraged her to publish her earliest books and later to become a generous donor of land to the National Trust . |
| 26 | On policy Antall stated : " The European Community is our most important target and we want to concentrate all our means to join as an associate member as soon as possible , and later to become a full member . " |
| 27 | Erle returned to Dorset a few years later to become a ship-money refuser and to head the poll in the county election of March 1640 ; but he resigned the seat to George Digby , second Earl of Bristol [ q.v. ] , and served for Lyme Regis in the Short Parliament , to which he reported on innovations in religion . |
| 28 | Brent Sadler , later to become a foreign correspondent for ITN , was the best I ever came across . |
| 29 | I thought I would see what changes , if any , had been made to the career structure of the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association ( GDBA ) — a career which I reluctantly gave up to become a full-time behaviour counsellor . |
| 30 | A priest tells the story of a boy he rescued from poverty who grows up to become a revolutionary leader . |