Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Here and in the United States , most experts now agree that a doctor is not obliged either ethically or legally to continue treatment when it 's refused or is useless or has become a burden to the patient . |
2 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
3 | Any woman living above the poverty line may choose or refuse to become a surrogate mother , and value judgments of either exploitation by the commissioning parents or of greed on the part of the surrogate mother are misplaced . |
4 | for use by a solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is or proposes to become a member of and/or a beneficial owner of a share or shares in a body corporate seeking recognition or already recognised under the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 . |
5 | for use by a recognised body ( or body seeking recognition ) which is or proposes to become a member of and/or a beneficial owner of a share or shares in a body corporate seeking recognition or already recognised under the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 . |
6 | being or proposing to become a member of and/or a beneficial owner of a share or … shares in … ( hereinafter called ‘ the Company ’ ) , HEREBY COVENANT with the COUNCIL OF THE LAW SOCIETY ( hereinafter called ‘ the Council ’ ) that , if recognition is granted to the Company by the Council under section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 , [ delete words in italics if the Company is already recognised ] I will jointly and severally with the other members of and beneficial owners of shares in the Company reimburse the Law Society , when required to do so by the Council , in respect of any grant made out of the Compensation Fund under paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the Administration of Justice Act 1985 where : |
7 | being or proposing to become a member of and/or a beneficial owner of a share or … shares in … ( hereinafter called ‘ the Company ’ ) , HEREBY COVENANT with the COUNCIL OF THE LAW SOCIETY ( hereinafter called ‘ the Council ’ ) that , if recognition is granted to the Company by the Council under section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 , [ delete words in italics if the Company is already recognised ] it will jointly and severally with the other members of and beneficial owners of shares in the Company reimburse the Law Society , when required to do so by the Council , in respect of any grant made out of the Compensation Fund under paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the Administration of Justice Act 1985 where : |
8 | AUDREY HEPBURN is up to her cat-like eyes in murder and dirty double crossing in this clever comedy thriller that has become a film classic . |
9 | In classical biological control , a natural enemy is introduced to control an organism that has become a pest in its absence . |
10 | Surprisingly , the turning point that saw a struggling business transformed into a trendsetting group that has become a household name can be traced back to a Dutch merchant banker , who persuaded Conran to widen his horizons . |
11 | One of the latter is a book that has become a favourite in the two years since it first appeared in hardback form . |
12 | You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage . |
13 | But his interest in them came out in a unique way almost twenty years ago when he founded a shop that has become a fixture on Prince Street Untitled . |
14 | Whereas a course of dealing can incorporate a term that has in effect become customary between the two parties in question , trade usage can incorporate a term that has become a custom amongst all the buyers and sellers dealing in the environment in question . |
15 | But Korn/Ferry have not developed the teamwork approach that has become a hallmark of Russell Reynolds . |
16 | The estate agent suggested an asking price and took some measurements and then a photograph , standing on the edge of the lawn that had become a meadow , where Rufus had stood and taken photographs a year before . |
17 | It stood like a slice of stale chocolate cake , marooned in a tar ox-bow , that had become a cul-de-sac when the main thoroughfare ploughed another course . |
18 | She had expected to spend that night with Edward and wake up beside him , the left-hand side , that had become a habit and it was a mistake , no doubt , to allow marriage to become a matter of habit , but that did n't prove that she was not a woman . |
19 | When he tried and saw the sky covered with rushing clouds , the lawn that had become a hay-field , the cedar 's wheeling branches , the gun levelled , there would come an explosion in his memory like the firing of that shot-gun , a redness in front of his eyes with splintered edges , then black-out . |
20 | Cranks was another revue that had become a sort of watchword for the kind of show this was . |
21 | Nor could she have said what made her so positive about this assumption that had become a fixture in her head — unless it was the fact of Silas 's previous near engagement to Doreen . |
22 | Examples of such housing were built in Europe in the 1940s , but when it came to the public sector imitations in this country , narrowness of concep-tion and meanness in execution translated the idea into the publicly owned slabs and boxes that have become a feature of the landscape in our major cities ( McDowell , 1983 ) . |
23 | Many elderly housebound people living alone feel the loss of their independence very keenly and fear becoming a burden to others . |
24 | More importantly , what might have initially looked like a lightweight novelty campaign group has grown and developed to become a full-time pressure group recognised as a leading authority on UK water pollution . |
25 | This attractive black and white mammal has widespread human appeal and has become a symbol for conservation efforts both within China and internationally as the symbol of The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) . |
26 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |
27 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |
28 | The factory has expanded to four times its original size and has become a showpiece of British industry . |
29 | Much of this now forms part of Africa 's stock of debt as the recipient countries have been unable to service their export credits , and has become a burden on the export credit guarantee agencies of the EC governments . |
30 | The agreement contradicted the promise of Arab self-rule that Britain had made to Sherif Hussein of Mecca ( King Hussein 's great-grandfather ) and has become a byword for duplicity . |