Example sentences of "[adv] become [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process implies that forecasts effectively became the annual budgets . |
| 2 | Her brother , Merfyn , began training with his uncle as a motor engineer and eventually became a technical journalist . |
| 3 | So this individual , who I would n't have given three stripes across , eventually became a Chief Inspector . |
| 4 | The arrangement eventually became a sore point in relations between the US and Panama , which regarded the original treaty as an affront to its sovereignty . |
| 5 | At first resisted by conservatives who feared its materialistic implications , evolutionism eventually became a central theme of late nineteenth-century thought , the foundation for a unified philosophy of biological and social progress . |
| 6 | His second son John West Wilson was a resident agent in Gothenburg and eventually became a naturalized Swede . |
| 7 | It , too , eventually became a vital piece in the evolutionary jigsaw that Darwin was to assemble with the help of John Gould at the Zoological Society . |
| 8 | The school later moved to Gower St , was granted a royal patent , and eventually became the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . |
| 9 | Despite 300 years of conflict , the Merovingian kings and their Mayors ( who eventually became the Frankish kings in their own right ) had found it impossible to subdue the Saxons on any permanent basis . |
| 10 | A crew was predominantly a male group , like any other city gang , yet the skinhead girls eventually became an accepted part of the scene . |
| 11 | When he eventually became an overnight star after fourteen years of hard labour in Hollywood , the seekers of his past came knocking on the doors of his tutors and former friends . |
| 12 | Slatter also served on the county committee for 30 years , edited the club handbook , and eventually became an Honorary member of both Buckinghamshire and the Minor Counties Cricket Association . |
| 13 | And here was the bonus : the positive charge of the proton is so effectively shielded that it will now be able to encroach much closer to the nucleus of a neighbouring atom without being repelled ; the chance of bumping into it and undergoing nuclear fusion , ‘ cold fusion ’ , thereby became a real possibility . |
| 14 | Though he was n't to know this , it was a gesture of defiance that was slowly becoming a sexual need . |
| 15 | She hopes to put this year 's experience to good use by eventually becoming a primary school teacher . |
| 16 | I think a number of us were becoming very concerned indeed that this was eventually becoming a political area and this this is dealt with in this way |
| 17 | Although its Foreign Affairs Minister , Anatoly Zlenko , reiterated his government 's commitment to the Ukraine eventually becoming a nuclear-free state , he said that all four nuclear republics " should have the option of participating in the ratification and implementation of the treaty " . |
| 18 | From her first class in Morden nine members went on to train as teachers , with Jean Parmiter eventually becoming a Senior Trainer . |
| 19 | In Britain in the early days of cinema , prosecutions were brought not for obscenity , but for breaches of licensing conditions , and when certification became the rule in 1923 , legal actions ceased for half a century until sex suddenly became a burning media issue in most Western countries . |
| 20 | My placid father who was just wiping his hands suddenly became a raging bull ! |
| 21 | The Disunited Kingdom suddenly became a potent slogan , and helped the Tories staunch the haemorrhage against them in Scotland . |
| 22 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 23 | As demand for food rose , the United States suddenly became a major exporter of agricultural goods , the surplus on that account rising from $1½ billion in 1972 to $10½ billion in 1974 . |
| 24 | Then when everybody wanted a piece of the action , they suddenly became the impenetrable clique every young soul rebel , too sacred to kick arse on their own , wanted to join . |
| 25 | As young people were being encouraged , if not forced , to raise the stakes of involvement , by the pressures of the wars , brutal police , terrorist causes and other assorted hostilities , violence suddenly became an integral part of the youth movement as the feeling of the impending apocalypse heightened . |
| 26 | He was fortunate enough to marry Louis XII 's only daughter and so became the appointed successor . |
| 27 | Applecross just happened to be central when Xenly was divided and so became the only building to be shared by each community . |
| 28 | And MS-DOS swiftly became the standard operating system for PCs . |
| 29 | Her ‘ traditional ’ primary education restricted her and she only became a professional journalist ( Echo February 4 ) . |
| 30 | Recording the electrical activity of single brain cells in mammals only became a viable proposition in the 1950s . |