Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chaos now seemed poised to threaten the system from inside and without , and it is almost inevitable that the term ‘ civvy ’ should have become a derogatory reference . |
| 2 | erm I think the city must have become a real mess , there were stores piled up everywhere , wood , coal , corn , often I think they had to build sort of , something to hold the corn , there 's a lot of the evidence for that in the college accounts certainly . |
| 3 | And it should be said that , at least outwardly , Murphy and his men retained their charm and their good humour throughout what must have become a harrowing experience . |
| 4 | Adam says he 'd like to become a Grand Master . |
| 5 | Had it continued , however , the rebel university could have become a rival establishment to both Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 6 | The difficulty here is best demonstrated when Honderich , analyzing the notion that Conservatism is a ‘ defence of the familiar ’ , argues that if this were central to Conservatism ‘ we should have a mystery on our hands , the mystery of how an egregious idiocy could have become a large political tradition ’ . |
| 7 | Such patterns may have become a conventional part of the mosaicist 's repertory , indeed , the similarity of these mosaics to some in north-eastern England ( part IV ) suggests a widespread acceptance of these forms of decoration . |
| 8 | jobs which involve using heavy domestic equipment , or climbing steps and taking down curtains can be a real problem , and the thorough spring-clean they always used to do becomes a complete impossibility if they happen to suffer from one of the common disorders of old age , such as arthritis or heart trouble . |
| 9 | She says she has much more chance at this school of getting the qualifications she would need to become a social worker or a journalist ( she feels there a lot of good black journalists around but not enough women ) . |
| 10 | With those children now at secondary school she wanted to restart her career and decided that she would like to become a dental hygienist . |
| 11 | She began to feel that she would like to become a Roman Catholic , partly to frighten her mother , who was one of the pioneer Christian Scientists in England , and partly because the rigorousness of the experience attracted her . |
| 12 | In short , the ration book would have become a national institution like the council house . |
| 13 | And in 500 years , when the distinction between twentieth-century decades will have become a mere specialist detail ( as is the distinction , for most of us , between the 1840s and the 1850s ) ? |
| 14 | It says the intelligent network market in the US and Europe will reach $107,000m by then — a six-fold increase on today 's figure , and will have become a standard part of the phone service . |