Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] become [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They settled on a series of four or five plays which are notable for anticipating subjects destined to become central issues in the sixties : student revolt , the hippie movement , violence and so on . |
| 2 | It is not accidental that Japanese manufacturers have become eager converts to robots and automation . |
| 3 | She has been compelled by her ancestry to leave the sea and come to these beaches to breed , for seals are descended from land-living mammals and although their limbs have become efficient paddles and their bodies are streamlined for swimming , unlike whales and dolphins they have not yet evolved techniques that enable them to give birth at sea . |
| 4 | Wordsworth contributed to the growth of ‘ Humanity ’ , the climate of opinion in which Shaftesbury was able to proceed with factory legislation ; and surely his attitude of reverence towards landscape formed public opinion , so that one now needs planning permission to site a factory and the line of a motorway has to be negotiated ; certain areas have become National Parks , and one can not help noticing how many of these were districts where Wordsworth lived or with which he was in some way associated ( see Gazetteer ) . |
| 5 | Once again , the judges have become central figures in these political issues . |
| 6 | Probably many urban employers in the new forms of manufacture would have liked more of their workers to have become self-disciplined Methodists , but it was the employers of the village-dwelling miners who could already appreciate the benefits by the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | It may be months later , when naive expectations have become realistic beliefs . |
| 8 | The figure has fallen to less than 60 per cent as overseas banks have become keen lenders . |
| 9 | First , capital needs are sizeable if firms wish to become major players , to invest in technology , to be able to handle underwriting and distribution , notably of " bought deals " , to hire expertise and to be able to trade and make markets . |
| 10 | On 17 July 1429 , less than ten weeks after relieving Orleans , and having in the meanwhile brought back to French rule a number of towns , including Troyes where the fateful treaty had been sealed in 1420 , Joan stood in the cathedral at Reims watching the dauphin as he underwent the rite of coronation , the rite by which his predecessors had become full kings of France . |
| 11 | Instead , interest rate changes and exchange rate changes have become powerful weapons in the government 's armoury . |
| 12 | For , above and beyond the ‘ theory ’ underpinning the new narrative , the most significant development is that Spanish-American writers have become accomplished practitioners of their trade . |
| 13 | Interestingly his steak , bacon and sausage sales are buoyant because , although many of his customers have become various experts on stock disease , they do n't realise where the latter come from ! |
| 14 | Individuals enjoy any benefit bestowed by treaty with the continuing agreement of the States parties ; they do not have treaty rights vested in them , unless those rights have become basic norms of municipal law , customary international law , or jus cogens . |
| 15 | Purity , harmony , truth , authenticity : such qualities have become pretty suspect in this postmodern post-Thatcher era . |
| 16 | In fact , as film-makers have moved out of the studio and on to location , to achieve more realistic impressions of dramatic situations , the attraction of on-location filming into cities and regions has become big business . |
| 17 | For by the 1950s and 1960s , with the connivance of money-grubbing speculators and complacent politicians , their theories had become architectural orthodoxy . |
| 18 | Commercial contractual relations had become valuable rights which could be regarded as entitled to at least some of the protection given by the law to property and while it was argued that the plaintiff ought to be satisfied with his action for breach of contract against the party induced , the latter might be incapable of paying all the damages . |
| 19 | Current academics have become financial consultants themselves as well as highly-paid expert witnesses in court disputes . |
| 20 | But other features have become established parts of the Anglo-American critical tradition , and have by no means necessarily been superseded . |
| 21 | Er and so er although in security struggles in the event of war we find er that these wars tend to become total wars , and we 've had two of these in the present century , historically speaking in recent times we had another one , anyone know what it was ? |
| 22 | In the two days since the men had been gone the girls had become close friends , beginning from the moment Joanna had knocked timidly on the solar door soon after Guy had left . |
| 23 | The two girls had become firm friends ; they seemed to have so much in common , apart from their age . |
| 24 | In the meantime , on Earth , we have reached the stage in our narrative where simple unicellular creatures have become multicellular creatures , the earliest known of which would have been the jellyfish . |
| 25 | National corporations have become transnational corporations , and the concentration at the top of major world industries has become even more concentrated in the hands of transnationals . |
| 26 | The champions have become fallen heroes , lying just four points away from a relegation place with a record that parallels this stage of the season a decade ago when they last went down . |
| 27 | Almost perfect transmission at low-enough frequencies stems from both capacitors tending to become open circuit . |
| 28 | For example , most engineering degrees must now be accredited by the engineering institutions and ultimately by the Engineering Council if graduates wish to become chartered engineers and members of those institutions , so the way in which courses develop is very much dictated by the whims of the engineering institutes . |
| 29 | My babies had become thorny bully boys , and I found that my garden was not so large after all . |
| 30 | For example , an adult can dress herself or eat a meal and chat about something else at the same time , because these routines have become automatic habits . |