Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun . |
| 2 | Maybe I should consider becoming a Power Pack leader . |
| 3 | For example , a building contractor whose company builds houses for the council should decline to become a member of the housing committee and so avoid innuendos which would otherwise follow . |
| 4 | It was almost inevitable , given the excessive respect paid in the Potter house to the written word , and given Frederica 's own mastery of , and intense pleasure in , the school essay , that she should decide to become a writer . |
| 5 | Fresden Manor should have become a centre for local children to study Roman history . |
| 6 | ‘ Dr. Briant wishes me to make clear at the outset that he is not entirely happy that this matter should have become a subject of public discussion . |
| 7 | It is surely one of the most cruel twists of fate that a man who has demonstrated such commitment , as well as compassion to overcome so many other problems during his life — and indeed to have helped so many others to have done the same — that he should have become a victim of medical science . |
| 8 | By this time though , judging what footholds you can and can not use on this bizarrely rippled slab , should have become a touch clearer . |
| 9 | For example the question ‘ Would you like to become a doctor and work in a hospital ? ’ is a double question because the respondent might like to become a doctor , but not work in a hospital . |
| 10 | They hope when the 1994 festival comes round they 'll have become a part of Cheltenham tradition . |
| 11 | ‘ If I ca n't get her back to the sea , I 'll have to become a farmer , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Had things been different , Julia might have become a vet or a professional horsewoman . |
| 13 | To the south , across a wasteland which might have become a park , is the House of Science . |
| 14 | A sense of her own importance , which survived despite the sadnesses of her adult life and prompted her to tell her own story at such length , is summed up in her quotation of a relative 's comment on her autobiography , ‘ it was not writ as if a weak woman might have done it , but might have become a divine . ’ |
| 15 | He was offered a Dupont chemical engineering scholarship and might have become a captain of industry somewhere in middle America , balding , bloated and with a houseful of his own children , anonymously having pursued a largely uneventful career in that worthy but slightly boring structure of management in a giant US conglomerate . |
| 16 | Intergenerational mobility : that is , the son or daughter has a different social position ( higher or lower ) than that of the parents ( for example , a miner 's daughter might train to become a teacher ) . |
| 17 | Commitment to the war could have become a problem in itself as the chances of victory became remote . |
| 18 | Had he been caught or had he panicked he could well have been in very serious trouble : the charming young tearaway could have become a court case . |
| 19 | Tiny Rowland may have become a bore with his obsession over DTI 's failure to publish the report on the House of Fraser — but on this occasion he is on the side of the Gods . |
| 20 | The company say the safety of their staff is paramount , they 'll even bring in a jeweller to remove rings which may have become a fixture over the years . |
| 21 | Baseball may have become a parks game in Britian in recent years but now in Gloucestershire there 's a new name to put alongside the Chicago Whitesox and the Los Angeles Dodgers … the name on the shirt is the Gloster Meteors . |
| 22 | The treaty of Rome provides under article 237 that ’ any European state ’ may apply to become a member of the Community . |
| 23 | You may wish to become a founder friend by paying £250 once every five years . |
| 24 | • I would like to become a member of the A.P.F./Mill Hill organisation . |
| 25 | Certainly to explain the Incarnation in a quarter of an hour over the air is a tall order , but Lewis could surely have done better than to say , ‘ If you want to get the hang of it , think how you would like to become a slug or a crab . ’ |
| 26 | " If I 'd wanted to spend over five hours on the golf course I would have become a greenkeeper and not a professional golfer . " |
| 27 | It seemed a hideous unthinkable accident to be born a man , so you would have to become a soldier . |
| 28 | The danger that a landowner 's heir would have to pay relief on succeeding to his estate , and , if a minor , would have to become a ward of the Crown , could be avoided if the landowner himself , during his lifetime , enfeoffed trustees with the lands , reserving to the ‘ use ’ of himself and his heirs the annual income . |
| 29 | But whoever it is , waving to the exultant crowds , he will have become a legend . |
| 30 | The talisman will have become a docket , and a docket with a sinister purpose ; for the change is not just to conform with the requirements of the EC but signals a fundamental change of function . |