Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] become [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clive never fulfilled his ambition of becoming a real American police officer . |
| 2 | Would she herself end up like that , if she achieved her ambition of becoming the managing editor of a magazine ? |
| 3 | The demands of the business prevented his following his original intention of becoming a professional chemist . |
| 4 | In an announcement published on 28 August 1991 , the PT expressed the intention of becoming the political organisation of the trade unions . |
| 5 | Maginn spent the rest of his life as a dedicated missioner in Belfast , where in 1888 he had the pleasure of becoming the first superintendent of the Mission Hall for the Adult Deaf and Dumb which was opened that year by Miss Wilhelmina Frederick . |
| 6 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed in August . |
| 7 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed by the League 's president , Bill Fox , in August . |
| 8 | There 's something demeaning about Spielberg 's attempts to incorporate modern American youth culture : the Lost Boys ' rapping and skateboarding , more than anything , will prevent this movie from becoming a timeless classic . |
| 9 | The disturbing qualities of the state itself may prove sufficient to prevent the non-medical use of ketamine from becoming an entrenched public health problem . |
| 10 | On making these decisions , her panic attacks stopped and were replaced by a mixture of emotions as she faced up to her fear of intimacy and commitment , and her excitement and uncertainty over becoming a mature student . |
| 11 | And it is likely that Nicol will duplicate Steve Smith 's 1980 experience of becoming a nonplaying Lion . |
| 12 | And it is likely that Nicol will duplicate Steve Smith 's 1980 experience of becoming a non-playing Lion . |
| 13 | Allen , who has been booked 12 times this season , was ordered to appear before a special FA disciplinary committee after becoming the first professional player in England to top 41 points for the season . |
| 14 | For the players of Torpedo Moscow will not only be fighting for the honour of becoming the first side to beat Manchester United in a European tie at Old Trafford . |
| 15 | VETERAN bluesman John Lee Hooker has just achieved the honour of becoming the oldest person to have a UK Top 20 hit . |
| 16 | DURHAM WASPS ' dream of becoming the first British League team to win a European game abroad ended in a 10-1 defeat here last night after Robert Herckerrath had opened the scoring for Gunco Pandas of Rotterdam in the second minute . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Sally Gunnell yesterday outlined her dream of becoming the first British woman to win a unique ‘ grand slam ’ of major championship gold medals . |
| 18 | All eyes of course will be on Cheltenham where John Taylor will be trying to prove that being black is not a bar to becoming a Conservative Member of Parliament . |
| 19 | His team re-wrote the Turkish record books in the 1991/92 campaign by becoming the first to be undefeated in an entire League programme , joining Trabzonspor and Galatasaray as the only ones to win the championship three seasons running . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , in the wake of the retreat of American power and the demise of SEATO neutralisation remained the regional strategic stance of Southeast Asia , if only because it was considered by the region to be the only plausible defence against becoming a Chinese sphere of influence . |
| 21 | He lost , thereby achieving the distinction of becoming the first person in history who could be proved to have failed his degree . |
| 22 | Republic of Ireland .. 3 Northern Ireland ..... 0 THE celebrations were on the point of becoming a full-blown ceilidh when the score was corrected : Spain had not won 2-1 in Budapest , but the Hungarians had equalised eight minutes from time , and a bizarre set of circumstances could yet deny the Republic their first appearance in the World Cup finals . |
| 23 | As the Conservative party is on the point of becoming the third party in a four-party country at the by-election later this week , is it not time that the Government stopped giving Scotland what it does not want — nuclear waste and nuclear energy — and instead gave Scotland what it wants , which is direct encouragement for renewable energies in a country which the Minister himself described as rich in potential for such developments ? |
| 24 | At what point erm did i er did it become an official dispute , how how at the point of becoming an official dispute ? |
| 25 | We need only to compare this to the average annual cost in 1986–87 of probation orders ( 900 ) , community service orders ( 520 ) , attendance sentence orders ( 117 ) or even places in probation hostels ( 7 , 174 ) to see why the Treasury is in danger of becoming a radical advocate of decarceration ! |
| 26 | With the widespread use of the telephone for both business and pleasure letter-writing is in danger of becoming a lost skill and probably the only letters which are kept in the home are those between sweethearts or between members of a united family . |
| 27 | The Coke ( this column is in danger of becoming a Coke-aholic ) came without ice , lemon and ( rather like the evening ) fizz . |
| 28 | Too often the role is not understood , and she is in danger of becoming a general factotum ( Fig. 3.2 ) . |
| 29 | On broader questions , like physics-and-biology , our understanding is considerably less and complementarity is in danger of becoming a descriptive catchword rather than an interpretative principle . |
| 30 | Two years ago , the Princess said that show jumping was ‘ in serious danger of becoming a second-rate circus . ’ |