Example sentences of "[adv] become a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her brother , Merfyn , began training with his uncle as a motor engineer and eventually became a technical journalist . |
| 2 | So this individual , who I would n't have given three stripes across , eventually became a Chief Inspector . |
| 3 | The arrangement eventually became a sore point in relations between the US and Panama , which regarded the original treaty as an affront to its sovereignty . |
| 4 | At first resisted by conservatives who feared its materialistic implications , evolutionism eventually became a central theme of late nineteenth-century thought , the foundation for a unified philosophy of biological and social progress . |
| 5 | His second son John West Wilson was a resident agent in Gothenburg and eventually became a naturalized Swede . |
| 6 | It , too , eventually became a vital piece in the evolutionary jigsaw that Darwin was to assemble with the help of John Gould at the Zoological Society . |
| 7 | And here was the bonus : the positive charge of the proton is so effectively shielded that it will now be able to encroach much closer to the nucleus of a neighbouring atom without being repelled ; the chance of bumping into it and undergoing nuclear fusion , ‘ cold fusion ’ , thereby became a real possibility . |
| 8 | Though he was n't to know this , it was a gesture of defiance that was slowly becoming a sexual need . |
| 9 | She hopes to put this year 's experience to good use by eventually becoming a primary school teacher . |
| 10 | I think a number of us were becoming very concerned indeed that this was eventually becoming a political area and this this is dealt with in this way |
| 11 | Although its Foreign Affairs Minister , Anatoly Zlenko , reiterated his government 's commitment to the Ukraine eventually becoming a nuclear-free state , he said that all four nuclear republics " should have the option of participating in the ratification and implementation of the treaty " . |
| 12 | From her first class in Morden nine members went on to train as teachers , with Jean Parmiter eventually becoming a Senior Trainer . |
| 13 | In Britain in the early days of cinema , prosecutions were brought not for obscenity , but for breaches of licensing conditions , and when certification became the rule in 1923 , legal actions ceased for half a century until sex suddenly became a burning media issue in most Western countries . |
| 14 | My placid father who was just wiping his hands suddenly became a raging bull ! |
| 15 | The Disunited Kingdom suddenly became a potent slogan , and helped the Tories staunch the haemorrhage against them in Scotland . |
| 16 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 17 | As demand for food rose , the United States suddenly became a major exporter of agricultural goods , the surplus on that account rising from $1½ billion in 1972 to $10½ billion in 1974 . |
| 18 | Her ‘ traditional ’ primary education restricted her and she only became a professional journalist ( Echo February 4 ) . |
| 19 | Recording the electrical activity of single brain cells in mammals only became a viable proposition in the 1950s . |
| 20 | In its later stages , the conflict settled around two issues : ( a ) official information , which in modern conditions was of direct political interest to the State ; and ( b ) obscenity , which characteristically only became a major object of legislation in the nineteenth century , with the development of an effective popular market . |
| 21 | It only became a moot point because David was a meal ticket for so many people . |
| 22 | Many of the others — broke and sickened by the attitude of their non-refusenik colleagues , who included most of the staff of the Sun and the News of the World — experienced personal traumas as they struggled with the difficulties of what was obviously becoming a futile protest . |
| 23 | He was reviled as a so-called atheist but otherwise his thought received little attention , only becoming a main force in philosophy when it was rediscovered by German philosophers in the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | I therefore decided to strengthen and redeploy the AIB team in preparation for what would obviously become a major task for the next eighteen months or so . |
| 25 | It would only become a private place if the entry was restricted to a specific class of persons only , although even this is unclear . |
| 26 | The dazzling reality of God 's happiness can only become a living experience in our lives when we discover the spiritual disciplines that keep us close to God . |
| 27 | With the best will in the world by all involved agencies , environmental transformation , through the planting of trees in the central belt , will only become a realistic objective when the support of landowners and local people is enlisted . |
| 28 | Eraut ( 1977 ) avoids specifying the content or outcomes of teacher development , having rejected the assumption that a teacher who has developed has necessarily become a better teacher . |
| 29 | While the Cold War evaporated as Mikhail Gorbachev , the Soviet leader , realised that there was little point in the USSR being a military giant if it remained an ‘ economic pygmy ’ , the world would not , Mr Roper said , necessarily become a safer place . |
| 30 | The primary products in which the UK has most obviously become a net exporter are oil and gas . |