Example sentences of "[be] [verb] become [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover it was confined to members of the Labour Party , its first rule stating that " all members are expected to become individual members of their constituency Labour Parties " . |
| 2 | More than ever before , imagination , insight , understanding of new media and enthusiasm for the processes of ongoing change are going to become essential ingredients to effective librarianship . |
| 3 | Precisely what she disliked most about them was what interested him ; she knew that he wondered whether they could be persuaded to become sleeping partners in the revolution a phrase which she used and he approved with a dry smile and a nod . |
| 4 | Additionally , Blake was involved in checking Communist infiltration into the British sector and as part of these duties he began to learn Russian and had some officially approved contact with the Russians as part of a plan to see whether any of them could be persuaded to become British agents . |
| 5 | In February , however , it was reported that the group would not after all be allowed to become permanent residents because of doubts about their dissident credentials . |
| 6 | It read : I am so glad to have been asked to become Royal Patron of the British Deaf Association . |
| 7 | A similar focus on the war 's effect in shattering class barriers is present in In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , where the trigger to unity is a torpedoed destroyer rather than a crashed plane , The Gentle Sex ( 1943 ) , which follows a group of women as they are trained to become competent fighters , and Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) , which brings together a mixed group of girls in an aircraft engineering factory . |
| 8 | However , the 1989 White Paper , Working for Patients , has caused some concern that an unprofitable and expensive service like geriatric provision may be reduced if hospitals and GPs are encouraged to become self-managing budget holders , whose first goal must be to contain costs . |
| 9 | Andrew Young has been promoted to become National Account Manager in the Cash and Carry and Wholesale Sector from his former job as National Account Executive in the same sector . |
| 10 | Here Greek temples were adapted to become Byzantine churches — as at Syracuse ( p. 21 ) — and new churches were built , particularly in Sicily . |
| 11 | The black middle classes were allowed to become professional people — doctors , lawyers , civil servants , etc. — but that was their limit . |
| 12 | The workers , replaced by sheep and by mechanised farming techniques , were forced to become landless proletarians , dependent on employment in a labour market . |
| 13 | Throughout the '60s , the National festivals grew rapidly and were forced to become movable feasts due to constant licensing hassles — Windsor in '66 and '67 , Kempton Park '68 , Plumpton '69 and '70 . |
| 14 | In another metals area , Britain is gambling to become western Europe 's only supplier of titanium , at a time when the market for the lightweight material is already oversupplied . |
| 15 | Nick Irens , finance director of First Leisure , is leaving to become chief executive of a new company about to be launched , First Leisure said yesterday . |
| 16 | But with prize-money soaring to £500,000 a race , he is poised to become American motor sport 's biggest earner . |
| 17 | When Mr Major was bidding to become Tory Party leader , Mr Lamont was his campaign manager . |
| 18 | In 1911 he was chosen to become general manager of the London and South Western Railway and remained there till 1923 . |