Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] become [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Edna had left school , she more or less became a fixture in the household and there was no doubt that Celia was a much happier and more tractable baby under her young but competent handling . |
| 2 | It 's an interesting thought that the images of every day life that we all make today , will sooner or later become a part of this heritage . |
| 3 | They were tagged ‘ miserable sods ’ — a label that soon became a standing joke — and the arguments raged . |
| 4 | Furthermore , especially when blooms are double or have many petals , it is quite likely that spent blooms will collapse into a rain-soaked soggy mess that quickly becomes a haven a breeding ground for mildew . |
| 5 | It was a jibe that nearly became a prophecy , though Cambridge were left with more of a one-horse race . |
| 6 | The cloud becomes very dense at the centre , leaving behind a dusty envelope that ultimately becomes a retinue of planets — like being thrown out onto a potter 's wheel . |
| 7 | One gang set fire to a shop after wrecking it and then that too became a feature of the attacks . |
| 8 | I 'd rather take that approach , and what I would suggest is that , wherever possible , teachers should think about involving parents in the kinds of difficulties that the child is having in school , and thereby becomes a team effort rather than parents working one direction and perhaps teachers working in another . |
| 9 | It has survived with the tenacity of life itself , and thereby becomes the justification for the creation of a ‘ god-based ’ religion that would ultimately appeal to all people . |
| 10 | By virtue of not developing , you stand still and eventually become an anachronism . ’ |
| 11 | Beyond the joining of the rivers , now called the Tisza , the route turns north towards Russian and eventually becomes the frontier between Hungary on the left bank and the Soviets on the right . |
| 12 | In ancient times this magnificent monument must have been much admired and it is hardly surprising that Imhotep was remembered as a great man and eventually became a god . |
| 13 | He began by building up the scout movement in the NorthEast and eventually became a scout commissioner . |
| 14 | he never took much part in college life and eventually became an object of derision among medical students , who called him ‘ Mummy Jones ’ . |
| 15 | After Zarathustra 's death his religion was taken up by the old priestly class known as the Magi and eventually became the faith of the Achaemenid dynasty . |
| 16 | The palace was never finished and eventually became the property of the powerful Schwarzenberg family who created a beautiful formal garden on the site . |
| 17 | This form developed bipedalism and other adaptations to the newly opening arid savannah landscape and eventually became the ancestor of man . |
| 18 | After Martin 's death his son Jean continued to reside at the rue de Harlay , and presumably became the master maker of the workshop . |
| 19 | The United States which had been supremely the country of the railway at the beginning of the twentieth century had just as dramatically and wholeheartedly become the country of the motor car , the Greyhound bus , and the aeroplane . |
| 20 | The leather baggage and glass cosmetic pots of the day were too heavy to take on the plane but she managed to find lighter substitutes and so became a pioneer of lightweight luggage , as well as a pioneer female passenger . |
| 21 | But last year it sold seven million bibles translated into 119 languages to 90 countries and so became the world 's largest exporter of bibles . |
| 22 | Had ICI focused earlier on shareholder value creation , he said , it would not have allowed a value gap to develop and so become a target for Hanson 's predatory schemes . |
| 23 | The worst fate that could befall any relative or follower was to be declared a ‘ broken man ’ : that is , either by punitive official proceedings or by some family banishment , to be removed from the protection of the surname and so become an outlaw , fair prey for any enemy , English or Scottish . |
| 24 | The dominant Labour Party included large sections of industrial South Wales which was openly hostile , fearing that devolution would separate Wales from the economic and social structure of England and perhaps become a paradise for linguistic nationalists . |
| 25 | He could throw his lot in with the Lord General , and perhaps become a governor of one of the colony worlds . |
| 26 | Yet Louth-born Wilkinson was a midfield player as a schoolboy and only became a forward by accident . |
| 27 | As a result , many ornamental objects once again survived , if only to become the focus for the activities of Puritan iconoclasts during the civil war . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Much was seized for food by a starving population , and much became the casualty of unexploded mines and bombs . |
| 30 | This reliance on the compulsive power of oratory started a rhetorical tradition which in the long run weakened liberalism ; rhetoric is unsuitable to the politics of interest and easily becomes the property of extremists . |