Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] become a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I He was very good-looking and fast became a popular idol — ‘ As Paris handsome and as Hector brave ’ , according to a contemporary poetaster . |
| 2 | That 's carried , fifty votes to thirty six and now becomes a substantive motion . |
| 3 | Everything needing a temporary home found its way into the stable and then became a permanency . |
| 4 | Greece applied for membership in 1975 and finally became a Member State on 1 January 1981 . |
| 5 | By virtue of not developing , you stand still and eventually become an anachronism . ’ |
| 6 | But then again , the Golden Höfner was the flagship of the company 's electric hollow-bodied range between ‘ 59 and ‘ 62 and naturally became a platform for showing just what could be done . |
| 7 | this prevents civilians from becoming far too powerful and then becoming a dictatorship . |
| 8 | She had arrived in Paris in 1912 and soon became a good friend of Soutine and a familiar Montparnasse character . |
| 9 | His ‘ Sanspareil ’ , which competed unsuccessfully in the Rainhill locomotive trials of 1829 , instituted by the directors of the London and Manchester Railway and won by the ‘ Rocket ’ of Robert Stephenson [ q.v. ] , gave excellent service until 1844 and then became an exhibit at the Science Museum , London . |
| 10 | Similarly you get players such as Pallister who strulled at first and then became a bargain . |
| 11 | That , that is carried by forty eight votes to twenty nine and now becomes a substantive motion . |
| 12 | His father is a veterinary surgeon , and he himself assisted his father for a year or two and then became a groom . |