Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] become [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In 1850 , as a newly appointed house surgeon to St George 's Hospital ( where he later became lecturer in anatomy ) he presented a paper to the Royal Society ‘ On the development of the optic and auditory nerves ’ .
2 He joined the leisure and later the entertainments division , where he later became director , with responsibility for such venues as Talk of the Town , Belle Vue Zoo , Blackpool , Eastbourne and Yarmouth piers and a caravan park .
3 The family was clearly influential , perhaps having been helped by his brother who was archbishop of Canterbury , and a third brother was an alderman , although he never became mayor .
4 The principal removal mech mechanisms for salts are inorganic precipitation a chemical reaction between the dissolved substance and a particle , such that it then becomes part of the particle and obviously for biologically mediated substances biological processes such as skeleton formation or conversion to biological tissue .
5 His apprenticeship was in the Big League , as a trouble-shooting whizz -kid at the Bank of America , and he then became Peat Marwick Mitchell 's youngest-ever partner in 1961 , aged only 30 .
6 It sat upon an ancient heathen site , a site far darker than anything I could ever have conceived and it instantly became part of my well of strength .
7 ‘ The government 's proposals on patronage and sponsorship [ the so-called Ley del Mecenazgo or Patronage Law ] may provide an important boost for the Museum if it actually becomes law ’ .
8 The contradictions remain but they only become tension and conflict when we are under pressure to perform more than one role at a time .
9 When they eventually became man and wife , it was the ‘ quietest of quiet weddings ’ and they had to pay half-a-crown for two passers-by to act as witnesses .
10 However it is also likely that many ‘ wifely ’ tasks such as teamaking and the bosses ' shopping disappear , and that typists gain some protection from sexual harassment as they increasingly become machine operators , tied to work stations .
11 In Parliament he represented either Wootton Basset or Malmesbury from 1571 to 1597 , though he never became knight of the shire .
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