Example sentences of "[vb past] become [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the 8 mm clast sizes , exposed edges of bone began to become chipped within the first hour of abrasion and some loss of molars occurred ( Fig. 1.10A ) , but once the weaker bone had been removed no further breakage occurred . |
| 2 | Only a few years ago no-one in the transport industry ever really thought about BS5750 and it was n't until companies started feeling pressure from customers , particularly in the field of hazardous goods that minds started to become focused on the benefits . |
| 3 | If the island did become detached in the way he suggests , then the mountainous regions in the south would have been separated far longer than the northern parts . |
| 4 | Trade Unions had become united in the Trades Unions Congress and at a meeting in 1899 , it was agreed to call a special conference on political representation of Labour , and that led to the foundation of the labour political party at the turn of the century . |
| 5 | Perhaps the second fragment had become detached at the same time and simply fallen to the ground where she had picked it up . |
| 6 | But by the 1860s Berkeley Hill had become integrated into the culture of London 's professional gentry , where experts rubbed shoulders with the leaders of upper middle-class and aristocratic society . |
| 7 | Even La Jalousie , which had become assimilated into the ‘ great tradition ’ of the French psychological novel , could be described as an exercise in serial composition , as its author himself would claim . |
| 8 | Rather than reject Marxism on the grounds that it had been disproved by history , as Merleau-ponty had done , he sought to account for Stalinism through a dialectical analysis of the specific history of the Soviet Union since the Revolution : theory and practice , he argued , had become separated with the result that the former had become ‘ sclerosed ’ while the latter had become ‘ blind ’ and ‘ unprincipled ’ ( I , 50 ) . |
| 9 | Jim Almonds had become separated from the rest and was taken prisoner . |
| 10 | Running until their pursuers had become separated by the chase , they would turn and ambush them one after the other . |
| 11 | So the patron saint had become absorbed into the feudal world . |
| 12 | It declared him to be ‘ in no sense party political ’ ; despite having ‘ roots on the left ’ , he had become fascinated from the mid-1970s onwards ( like Jay ) by Thatcherite economics . |
| 13 | Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world . |
| 14 | One felt that men had become brutalised by the preoccupation of not leaving their company and also not delaying in a place where death was raining down . |
| 15 | March 1953 , by which time United Soviet States of Russia had become isolated from the western world , refusing to accept Marshall Aid and hiding behind the ‘ Iron Curtain ’ which they had created . |
| 16 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 17 | In many of the above examples the claim was that a third party had become bound by the treaty in whole or in part , and had ceased to be a third party . |
| 18 | The government emphasized the need to improve relations with neighbouring countries , which had become strained during the last year of Rajiv Gandhi 's government . |
| 19 | Saudi Arabia had established a trade mission in Beijing in August 1989 , but relations between the two countries had become strained following the suppression of Moslem revolts in the Chinese western autonomous region of Xinjiang Uygur in April 1990 , which resulted in 23 deaths and in restrictions on the building of mosques and in the importation of Islamic literature [ see also p. 37373 ] . |
| 20 | The problem for capitalism , however , was that in allowing the state to intervene so extensively , economic crises had become internalised within the state , and this undermined the states legitimacy . |
| 21 | Within a short space of time , the laboratory had ceased to be involved in the launch vehicles , themselves ( so making ‘ Jet Propulsion ’ a highly anomalous title ) , and had become connected to the newly-formed NASA empire . |
| 22 | His helmet had become dislodged in the impact , but he was still within the cockpit , restrained by his lap harness . |
| 23 | Previously regarded as a champion of glasnost for the controversial 600 Sekund programme in which he frequently had investigated the Soviet criminal underworld and corrupt officials , he had become cast in the role of chief apologist for hardline government policies after broadcasts he had made justifying January 's military crackdown in the Baltic republics . |
| 24 | He had become alarmed by the attempts of a group in the Conservative Party to form a New Progressive Group with 100,000 supporters . |
| 25 | For although the Home Rule movement did for a time grow apace , with an ever increasing number of SNP candidates being elected to Parliament and , under the Callaghan administration , the old High School building on Calton Hill being refurbished to accommodate a Scottish debating-chamber ( the old one had become incorporated in the Law Courts ) , the idea of Home Rule made many of my countrymen uneasy ; less , I think , about financial disadvantages ( for oil revenue would have compensated for that ) than at the prospect of feuding between east and west , north and south , and , for some , the prospect of a semi-permanent Labour administration ; and when in 1979 a referendum of the whole Scottish nation was held , the votes in favour of Home Rule did not attain the clear 40 per cent majority on which the House of Commons had insisted . |
| 26 | The case method had become adopted as the dominant method of legal study in the elite American law schools in the period up to the First World War . |
| 27 | There was , of course , a mortuary chapel — indeed Kensal Green had two chapels , so that Anglicans and Dissenters , even in death , could remain segregated ; but the dead had become divorced from the Christian communities to which they had once belonged . |
| 28 | It showed how firmly union officials had become embedded in the governing structure and how reluctant Labour politicians were to jeopardize the chances of gaining office . |
| 29 | Telling speeches in support of abolition were made from the Conservative benches by Sir Edward Boyle and Henry Brooke , the former Home Secretary who had become persuaded by the arguments against capital punishment once free of the cares of office . |
| 30 | In those few months my brain had become saturated with the things of my new life — even my mouth was full of RAF slang and jargon . |