Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] become [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of lengthening their bodies , like the caecilians , they have shortened it , their vertebrae having become fused together , and far from losing their legs , they have developed them enormously , and some have become prodigious leapers . |
| 2 | ‘ After a longer period , donors and patients sometimes meet and some have become great friends . ’ |
| 3 | Some have become true friends , and I have spent several weekends away because of their thoughtfulness . |
| 4 | These have become key areas of the department 's work . |
| 5 | Consideration of the effects of stress in the workplace has meant that for many employers the workaholic has become bad news . |
| 6 | The implication is that poverty is due to lack of involvement with successful capitalist enterprise and , though a minority of the poor do become successful entrepreneurs by building up small businesses from street selling , the vast majority are poor because they are excluded from the modern economy . |
| 7 | Out of the thirteen which still had a formal Railfreight allocation in 1989 , many had become specialised bases for traction belonging to a particular sub-sector . |
| 8 | The congress session adopted a resolution introduced by Miomir Grbovic ( a central committee presidium member from Montenegro , who on May 17 had become acting head of the LCY following the expiry of Milan Pancevski 's term as presidium president ) that the LCY should be relaunched at its 15th congress , called for September 1990 . |
| 9 | In the past two years almost all have become joint-stock companies , with a view to raising capital by floating on the stockmarket one day . |
| 10 | Approximately 10% of those infected become chronic carriers who can infect their families and patients , and have 12 to 300 times greater than normal risk of developing liver cancer . |
| 11 | Even now , when the boys responsible had become young men and gone off to make their ways in the world . |
| 12 | The last two had become prominent spokesmen for the families during the ten days since the removal of the children . |
| 13 | Other cells especially sensitive to light became vestigial eyes , and those susceptible to vibrations became hearing organs , and so on . |
| 14 | The other linguists all retained lasting interest in their subject without building careers on it : Lorna Bottomley joined the temporary Civil Service ( Ministry of Education ) after the war , enjoyed educational administration and in 1947 moved to become Assistant Secretary at the Westminster Medical School where she remained contentedly until retirement in 1982 . |