Example sentences of "[vb base] become a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Eddie Bleasdale , managing director of Bleasdale Computer Systems , sums up : ‘ We never want to become a big company because it is just not our scene . |
2 | He restated his " firm resolve to become a clean president … and … to root out any fraud and irregularities and achieve clean and honest government " . |
3 | The Waipu club , who are considering an appeal against the local union suspension , had better make sure of their ground unless they wish to become a laughing stock . |
4 | Apply to the Secretary if you wish to become a commercial pupil . |
5 | Their calls are also very intricate , and the sounds of some of them , the young , sexually mature humpback males , are so haunting that they have become a best-selling record . |
6 | Forced to reply the following July to acknowledge a sum of fifty francs from Theo , he said grimly that he was writing ‘ with some reluctance ’ because ‘ you have become a total stranger to me , and I have become the same to you . ’ |
7 | THE FIVE counties making up the south western corner of England have become a prime target for supermarket development . |
8 | They have become a prime target for teenage joyriders who often set fire to stolen cars when they have finished with them . |
9 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |
10 | Then , at the beginning of this week , the ANC and a group of South African academics and businessmen chose London as the scene of the latest in the series of black-white encounters which have become a regular feature of South African political life , while Mrs Thatcher gave interviews to four leading black journalists . |
11 | Since then , IMF loans and rescheduling arrangements have become a regular feature of economic life . |
12 | ‘ Ozone smogs ’ have become a regular feature of the hot and sunny summers we 've been having recently . |
13 | Auctions of marine paintings have become a regular feature of the season , but this is the first to take place in January . |
14 | A programme was developed , and meetings have become a regular event . |
15 | CCG have become a recognised examination centre for the City and Guilds Joint Certificate for Catering and the Licensed Trade . |
16 | Marginal projects financed from cheap money have become a financial burden for many companies . |
17 | BRITONS have become a lonelier nation in the last 10 years , according to Census figures . |
18 | Nothing like the rave parties which have become a controversial feature in the countryside . |
19 | Techniques for avoiding victimization have become a serious preoccupation : more locks on doors and windows , fewer visits after dark to family , friends , and places of entertainment , avoidance of underground and empty train carriages , mace sprays or personal alarm sirens held nervously in coat pockets , a growing unwillingness to be neighbourly or engage in local collective enterprises , furtive suspicious glances at any stranger , and attempts to avoid any encounter except with the most trusted and close friends . |
20 | Since I got my FAA seaplane rating a dozen years ago I have become a complete convert to aquatic aviation , trying my hand at it whenever I get the opportunity . |
21 | ‘ We have learned many lessons since our game against New Zealand in August and have become a better team because we have travelled and toured as a squad . |
22 | It 's antics like this which have become a major problem in towns and cities up and down the country in recent years , generating fear on estates like Blackbird Leys in Oxford . |
23 | Derivatives of this concept have become a major symbol in modern art . |
24 | State family planning programmes were first introduced in 1968 and since the establishment of the National Population Commission in 1974 , they have become a major government priority . |
25 | The January Sales have become a major event — many people queue overnight in London 's Oxford Street so they can be first through the doors of the big department stores . |
26 | Worldwide , indeed , ‘ exotic ’ species introduced by human beings have become a major cause of extinctions : probably second in importance only to loss of habitat . |
27 | These departments have become a major force in local government and are among the main spending departments after education . |
28 | ‘ I see that you have become a valued member of Mr Sands ’ ladies ' sewing circle . ’ |
29 | The Evangelicals have become a powerful influence in the land and this lays them open to the wooing of politicians . |
30 | For some , the Krays have become a fascinating subject . |