Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] become [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some leaves have buds growing by their divided lobes , and these eventually grow to become new plants . |
| 2 | ONE CAN but wish the publishers of all good luck in getting their money back on this book , for , much as all cricketers should not only strive to become good fielders but enjoy the process of improving their game , how many will lash out nigh on £15 for a manual to help them do so ? |
| 3 | The arguments against include : members should not be forced to share facilities with women , the pavilion may be too small , the pavilion has no women 's toilets , women have adequate facilities of their own , some men wish to get away from women , and ‘ lady subscribers ’ might not wish to become full members . |
| 4 | Secondly , and particularly in the Eastern District , the former , mutually supportive relationships between the Cambridge Board of Extra-Mural Studies and the District gradually shifted to become uneasy collaboration when the 1924 Regulations were interpreted and applied more flexibly as provision expanded . |
| 5 | He always wanted to become Prime Minister , and in 1969 he secured the safe Tory seat of Louth at the age of 29 , becoming the country 's youngest MP.The trouble was , he was in too much of a hurry . |
| 6 | There is too much independence ( which means in effect the power to work in secrecy ) in the case of the nationalized industries and the local authorities both have become enormous spenders of taxation without its counterpart in public accountability . |
| 7 | Whether or not he would eventually have become chief executive is academic : the move to Provincial seems to have met a need to apply what is generally considered to be the sharp mind and highly effective set of skills of this simultaneously affable and well-organised character to a more absorbing challenge . |
| 8 | The players are n't expecting to become chart-topping superstars overnight , but their manager … who once had a hit himself … thinks the song will be good for team spirit . |
| 9 | TWO pensioners who met at a wedding ceremony half a century ago have become close friends after being reunited by the Daily Post . |
| 10 | TWO pensioners who met at a wedding ceremony half a century ago have become close friends after being reunited by the Daily Post . |
| 11 | He would order the androids to suppress all dissent and extinguish all opposition , and then return to become supreme ruler of the Althosian system . |
| 12 | Why , for example , did Molla Iwad ( Molla Ivaz ) , who was eventually to rise to become Rumeli kazasker , stay on at the Sahn at one point in his career , twice refusing appointments to higher medreses ( those of Murad II in Bursa and of Bayezid II in Edirne ) before accepting an appointment to the Ayasofya medrese ? |
| 13 | This is why to account for their longevity it is now believed that they were a qualified kind of ectothermic homeotherm continually striving to become endothermic homeotherms . |
| 14 | At the south-western corner of the city walls two smaller castles were built , Baynard 's and Mountfichet , but never allowed to become great fortresses ; and they were finally removed from this strategic place by Edward I in the late thirteenth century : by a king whose mighty works at the Tower mirrored his determination to keep the Londoners under firm control ; but who greatly expanded the western end and formed a large new enclosure there for the Dominican friars , who could help him to ensure that no hostile presence met him when he came from Westminster to the City . |
| 15 | Moreover , if God were always intervening to get us out of difficulties or dangers , we should never learn to become responsible people . |