Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spain did not become a great mercantile nation because she failed as a naval power to retain political control of her great empire , and as a producer to supply cheap goods . |
| 2 | I did not become a Labour Member of Parliament to hand over all power to bankers . |
| 3 | I did not become a Labour Member of Parliament or the Chairman of the Select Committee on Employment to work for policies that would lead to chronic mass unemployment . |
| 4 | They demanded that special consideration should be given to new OECD states , such as those in Eastern Europe , to ensure that these did not become a future dumping ground for EC waste . |
| 5 | Significantly then , apart from isolated evidence of attempted antislavery pledging in 1792 in the middle of a parliament , it did not become a systematic technique of abolitionists until the culmination of the emancipation campaign in the early 1830s when parliamentary reform politics also triumphed . |
| 6 | It also underlines one of the main reasons why community education did not become a radical movement for social change . |
| 7 | The European Communities ( EC ) stated that it welcomed NAFTA provided that it abided by GATT rules and did not become a closed trade bloc . |
| 8 | The overstretch of the regular army did not become a major political issue during the last of years of the Conservative Government ( then under Douglas Home , who succeeded Macmillan in October 1963 ) : it was a legacy left to Labour when they came to power in October 1964 . |
| 9 | The result has appeared unimpressive to some in that the issues embedded in the Public Expenditure White Paper remained obscure to most MPs and the annual debate did not become a major parliamentary occasion . |
| 10 | The DipHE did not become a major feature of the higher education landscape . |
| 11 | As it happened , in spite of General Marshall 's fears , France 's colonial policy did not become a Congressional issue in 1947 nor did it , contrary to what Marshall feared , have much effect on public opinion in the US . |
| 12 | He gave the French people a new pride in themselves , especially with such successful developments as the nuclear force de frappe ( even though this did not become a realistic deterrent until the later 1970s ) . |
| 13 | For all their grandeur , the chancellors in Germany , France and England in this period were still essentially officials of the household : even in England the royal chancery did not become a quasi-independent department of state until the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 14 | Given the commitment to its having the same entry qualifications as the degree , it did not become a clear alternative for large numbers of students . |
| 15 | Although originating in the universities , the new grassland ecology did not become a formal academic discipline , and flourished best among botanists with a practical concern for the problems experienced by the farmers who were interfering with the natural vegetation of the area . |
| 16 | Although there are some dissenters , it seems to be accepted that a lifetime of attachment to one company together with seniority promotions and group bonus schemes for all workers did not become a common practice until the 1950s . |
| 17 | As a young man he emigrated to England but did not become a British citizen until 1918 , though he served in the War Office Intelligence Department during World War I. |
| 18 | I knew the risk was there but it did n't become a major concern . |
| 19 | I 'd be very disappointed if it did n't become a wealthy country within five or ten years , as opposed to other oil-producing countrie s I 've lived in , Nigeria or Libya . |
| 20 | The level of foreign trade was still low in terms of national income , and the USSR had not become a major trading partner for most of the developed capitalist countries ; nor was interpersonal contact particularly large given the population numbers involved . |
| 21 | If Michael Joyce had not become a naturalised citizen of the United States during his residence there , then his son would have inherited British nationality from his father . |
| 22 | Before reaching the high sand , one had to cross a fifty yards wide trough of mud and water , the depth of which varied from six inches to six feet The trough was probably the only reason the area had not become a popular tourist resort years before . |
| 23 | At least the pronunciamiento had not become a speculative business enterprise for generals . |
| 24 | If Alison Sargent had n't become a chartered accountant , it may well have been her , and not Michael Fish , that we see reading the weather forecast every evening . |