Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet this awareness does not need to take any of our precious time ; it merely needs to become a part of what we are doing anyway . |
| 2 | The way he kept hanging about him , Quentin wondered if he had perhaps decided to become a clergyman again . |
| 3 | I would very much like to become a counsellor , helping people with problems . |
| 4 | ‘ Relax ’ may only have become a scandal when the BBC in belated confusion ( and in response to teasing video clips ) banned it , but singers Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford promote an explicitly gay image , and ‘ Two Tribes ’ was a pointed response to nuclear defence policy . |
| 5 | Donna McKemsley was so determined to become a pilot that while her friends were playing with dolls she was drawing and memorizing cockpit instrument panels . |
| 6 | I could easily have become a scapegoat . |
| 7 | When he was a child , an artist visited his school — he happened to be a musician — and left behind him an impression of a man very clearly committed to his chosen subject , and a feeling of passion for doing something you really want to do , that stayed with Paul for years until he finally decided to become a photographer . |
| 8 | If I am correct — and the statement is also seen in some measure as a form of protection of the parents ' and child 's rights in this matter — it is surely anomalous that this statement appears largely to have become a passport to special schooling . |
| 9 | The programme reveals that the actor was a notable pianist and once considered becoming a concert pianist . |
| 10 | At twenty , he still wants to become a muleteer , though by now the Spanish location has been narrowed to that of Andalusia . |
| 11 | Did you ever contemplate becoming a doctor ? |
| 12 | ONE of the candidates in last week 's Irish elections is still hoping to become a member of both the Irish and British parliaments . |
| 13 | He spelled out the dangers without being too alarmist , but it only served to make Matthew more determined to become a sailor . |
| 14 | If the complainant is still determined to become a plaintiff , the fact that a prompt apology has been made can be relied upon by the defendant to lower the amount of damages . |
| 15 | His brothers certainly were not as they formed a conspiratorial circle round Mike in the other corner of the yard , which all at once had become a boxing ring . |
| 16 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 17 | Porterfield was a good player who always wanted to become a manager . |
| 18 | I his is the sort of individual who is eventually invited to become a board master and the system engenders a wonderful sense of anticipation , as you progress up the board towards the prime positions ; when you are going to have your special day , on your favourite loch . |
| 19 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 20 | Barnes Wallis , son of the man who designed the famous ‘ bouncing bomb ’ , has also agreed to become a patron . |
| 21 | Looking forward just a few years , multimedia is clearly going to become a standard , highly influential feature of a vast range of computer applications in all sectors of our personal , professional and business lives . |
| 22 | The other friend , who also decided to become a lawyer , was as straight as an arrow in flight , and in total contrast , was very conventional in his approach to life . |
| 23 | GEC-Marconi also hopes to become a force in robots . |
| 24 | As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples . |
| 25 | It 's now expected to become a tourist attraction . |
| 26 | He now plans to become a York Minster guide . |
| 27 | She was in high spirits ; the idea which had been growing in her with increasing , undeniable force was now going to become a reality . |
| 28 | Paradoxically , Anthea now threatened to become a millstone to drag him down . |
| 29 | The whole battery site is now earmarked to become a country park or war museum but as yet still remains untouched used now and again for playing war games and a place to stable locally owned horses . |
| 30 | Father Martin now hopes to become a member of the Roman Catholic church , but admits that in this economic climate , he ca n't t many of those currently at odds will do likewise . |