Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An excellent organizer and fund-raiser , the movement he created soon became an established part of British life . |
| 2 | I think that a horse has to be a minimum of 7/8 bred now to become a top class event horse . |
| 3 | Picking up tips did not just come in the form of money , for Dave learned enough to become a single-figure handicap golfer by 1967 . |
| 4 | But , since last night he had felt totally vulnerable and defenceless , as if his familiar world had suddenly become a dangerous , alien planet and he was stranded on it , lost and without protection . |
| 5 | What is difficult to believe is that they had suddenly become a real threat to Gloucester . |
| 6 | What is difficult to believe is that they had suddenly become a real threat to Gloucester . |
| 7 | After five years as the wife of a country rector with no financial worries she had suddenly become a homeless , penniless widow . |
| 8 | Synthesis of the oligonucleotides required as primers in the reaction had already become a commonplace procedure . |
| 9 | Love had already become an impersonal sport , an itch to be satisfied . |
| 10 | By the time of the Japanese coup on 9 March 1945 the US had already become an important actor in the play that was to determine the future of Vietnam . |
| 11 | Many shrewd judges , both on the veldt and in England , though that the Springbok selectors were taking a massive gamble with Griffin , who had already been called for throwing in his own country , especially as unfair bowling had lately become a major issue . |
| 12 | But it is easy to see that , for example , a young mother who had recently been left by her husband , and gone back to a ( very good ) job , would pile up several different low scores , all linked to the fact that she had just become a single parent . |
| 13 | It had just become a costly , and addictive , habit . |
| 14 | The very parochial stuffiness that the Stones reacted against had somehow become an alluring and reproachful memory . |
| 15 | Russia had thus become a naval power equal to Spain and little inferior to France . |
| 16 | By the end of the sixteenth century it had been compounded for a cash payment from the counties and had thus become a straightforward tax . |
| 17 | Actually , a curious discovery is how many scribes and illuminators were still members of religious orders , even after the thirteenth century when book production had largely become a secular enterprise . |
| 18 | Two years earlier , on a more limited franchise , the first Senegalese deputy , Blaise Diagne , had been elected to the French National Assembly and had rapidly become a junior minister . |
| 19 | In the meantime , the Red Poll had rapidly become a minor breed , indeed officially classified as a rare breed , and was in great danger of losing its identity when in 1980 the breed society was reorganised and revitalised . |
| 20 | My uncle worships alone these days , and has done ever since his son left home to become a devout Capitalist ( neither his wife nor his daughter had ever bothered with my Uncle 's unique brand of condemnationist Christianity ; as a rule , the McHoan women , whether so by blood or marriage , have displayed a marked reluctance to take their men-folk 's passions seriously , at least outside the bedroom ) . |
| 21 | He was to regret this in the future , even to the extent of denying on occasion that he had ever become a naturalised American . |
| 22 | The heat had gradually become an expected body blow which was endurable with certain rules . |
| 23 | As a result of this potent combination of sentiment and self-interest , the war had assumed the character of something more than a military operation : in the minds of the military and of many civilians , left and right , it had quickly become a decisive test of France 's national will and international power . |
| 24 | But it had also become a flourishing offshore finance centre with 347 banks before the investigation . |
| 25 | He had also become a close friend of Joseph Parker who had visited America in 1873 and 1884 . |
| 26 | In the middle of this explosion of pop culture , Nicholson had also become a free agent again , having parted from his wife in 1966 , and moved in with his actor friend Harry Dean Stanton at Laurel Canyon . |
| 27 | The very powers of rationality which enabled modern man to free himself from nature and control it had also become an instrumental device to dominate him . |
| 28 | The slight tilt it always had now become a great lunge to one side , and as the mist moved against it the bin appeared to be moving the other way . |
| 29 | When , in a remarkable act of cultural smash-and-grab , working-class youths adopted the long drape jackets as their own uniform — to which they added embellishments such as greased duck-tail haircuts , thick-soled ‘ brothel creeper ’ shoes , slim-jim ties and narrow drain-pipe trousers — no self-respecting gentleman was going to adorn himself in what had now become a vulgar ‘ Ted suit ’ . |
| 30 | For Napoleon III the defeat was doubly fatal in that it not only revealed France 's weakness but also underlined the extent to which Prussia had now become a major power . |