Example sentences of "[adv] become a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Morley/Penman project had a negative thrust — ‘ rockist ’ duly became a term of abuse as casually applied by pop fans as ‘ selling out ’ had been by 1960s rock fans — but its tone was relentlessly optimistic and Morley was duly rewarded for his faith in market forces ( and in Dollar in particular ) by being invited into Trevor Horn 's record label plans . |
| 2 | Farming became geared to the demands of regional and national markets and harvest crises eventually became a thing of the past . |
| 3 | The band , who promised to be massive after an effortless rise to the top during the Manchester thingy in 1990 , eventually became a figure of fun in the music Press . |
| 4 | He eventually became a prebend of St. Paul 's and Archdeacon of Leicester ; had it not been for his friendship with Bishop Crewe who sympathized with the Stuarts , he could have expected to become a bishop . |
| 5 | he never took much part in college life and eventually became an object of derision among medical students , who called him ‘ Mummy Jones ’ . |
| 6 | The Conference is the forum where Resolutions which were submitted last December and which were discussed at over 50 District Meetings around the country since then were finally put to the vote of the delegates and , if passed , thereby became a cornerstone of Association policy . |
| 7 | The leather baggage and glass cosmetic pots of the day were too heavy to take on the plane but she managed to find lighter substitutes and so became a pioneer of lightweight luggage , as well as a pioneer female passenger . |
| 8 | Erm , at which point influencing has somewhat become a bit of a waste of time . |
| 9 | ‘ But I am not bitter over how Sam Hammam handled things even though it had all become a bit of a nightmare for me . |
| 10 | The NHS had long become a totem of bipartisan welfare provision , Bevan 's conflict with the BMA long forgotten . |
| 11 | He could throw his lot in with the Lord General , and perhaps become a governor of one of the colony worlds . |
| 12 | Narrating in his works quite literally becomes a kind of fabulation . |
| 13 | The room suddenly becomes a hive of activity as the team spring into action . |
| 14 | The reaction function g(U) then merely becomes a formalization of what Pigou and other classical writers had been saying all along , namely , that downward revisions of the money wage rate would eradicate the phenomenon of general unemployment . |
| 15 | As part of a dualist doctrine , the mentalist theory merely becomes a source of equivocations and obscurities . |
| 16 | What makes the researcher different is that the purpose of making these observations is not only to become a member of the group but also to write an account of its way of life . |
| 17 | It soon became a case of ‘ Advance Australia Fair ’ on almost every front . |
| 18 | The most striking features of Chaplin 's film career were the rapidity with which he became popular outside America and the way in which he very soon became a favourite of intellectuals . |
| 19 | I started on the full golf tour , but it soon became a choice of golf or my family . |
| 20 | Under William and his son — and successor — Joseph Dalton Hooker ( 1817–1911 ) , Kew began to acquire facilities for studying exotic plants and soon became a centre of international importance . |
| 21 | Party cohesion soon became a feature of parliamentary life . |
| 22 | It soon became a matter of urgency . |
| 23 | I soon became a connoisseur of wood smoke . |
| 24 | I soon became a fan of these boots which remained comfortable and performed well . |
| 25 | Simple cottages of compacted chalk and flint with front walls the depth of a single brick were flung up in rows of squalid terraces with neither drains nor water supplies ; what had been normal in rural Sussex soon became a trap of disease and hopelessness . |
| 26 | It soon became an organisation of worldwide influence and still exists as strong as ever . |
| 27 | Not only this , for the trusted promissory notes of the Bank easily became a form of paper money . |
| 28 | In 1639 he was appointed minister to the Dutch church in London , thus becoming a colleague of his stepbrother , Ambrosius Regemorter . |
| 29 | This trend was destined to continue , the ‘ rural ’ paper maker soon becoming a thing of the past . . |
| 30 | Yet by then the duchy was already becoming a power of some significance because of its position astride several of the most important routes across the Alps and its growing , though still limited , military strength . |