Example sentences of "[to-vb] become [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a modest success in its own way , enabling me to risk becoming a full-time freelance , and I shall always be grateful for that . |
| 2 | The cultural difference between Spain and the Spanish king 's northern dominions was considerably greater than that between France and Scotland ; Scotland managed to resist becoming a permanent part of the French political hegemony , but she had long been an enthusiastic member of the cultural one . |
| 3 | THE BUSES AND TAXIS I DETERMINED TO AVOID BECAME A CENTRAL PART OF NEARLY EVERY PAINTING . |
| 4 | The buses and taxis I determined to avoid became a central part of nearly every painting . |
| 5 | THE BUSES AND TAXIS I DETERMINED TO AVOID BECAME A CENTRAL PART OF NEARLY EVERY PAINTING . |
| 6 | The buses and taxis I determined to avoid became a central part of nearly every painting . |
| 7 | But the truth is that floundering helplessly between two markets — too old-hat to be teeny-bopper and too twee to be taken seriously — Kylie needs a drastic career re-think if she is to avoid becoming a latter-day Lena Zavaroni . |
| 8 | Referring to Western society Gerth and Mills state that life chances include ‘ Everything from the chance to stay alive during the first year after birth to the chance to view fine arts , the chance to remain healthy and grow tall , and if sick to get well again quickly , the chance to avoid becoming a juvenile delinquent and very crucially , the chance to complete an intermediary or higher educational grade ’ . |
| 9 | Only Fontwell survived but the course must pass a 7.30am inspection if it is to avoid becoming the 27th casualty of the season . |
| 10 | In some instances failure to comply becomes a separate offence with prescribed penalties ; in others , the court is given a discretion to treat silence as if it were a contempt of court . |
| 11 | When most of the helium in a star is used up , the nuclei begin to fuse to become the heavier elements at the core , liberating new energy . |
| 12 | jobs which involve using heavy domestic equipment , or climbing steps and taking down curtains can be a real problem , and the thorough spring-clean they always used to do becomes a complete impossibility if they happen to suffer from one of the common disorders of old age , such as arthritis or heart trouble . |
| 13 | It was Owens who added the emotional element to Fingers Inc , but he and partners , Larry Heard and Ron Wilson , could only watch as the innovations they brought to house became a saleable commodity 18 months after business problems forced the group to disband . |
| 14 | I had never thought about my father , about meeting him , not knowing , and something like this happening , and now I saw it was possible , the desire to laugh became a fearful compulsion . |
| 15 | Eliot had recounted in 1916 how in the excitement of the Australian aboriginal corroboree ‘ with every stimulant of noise , torchlight , strange masks , and drink , the savage seems to himself to have become a new being ’ . |
| 16 | The varied conditions over the week , biasing towards the lighter end , had given the sailors a good range without the Swedish walkover which seems to have become a regular feature of late . |
| 17 | The Hilary of once upon a time would have done it and taken great pleasure in confronting him , but the Hilary of now seemed to have become a spineless coward . |
| 18 | Alexander seemed to have become a decisive proponent of reform . |
| 19 | This seemed to him , and to me , to have become a great issue of conscience . |
| 20 | Bail conditions appear also to have become a standard practice in public order cases . |
| 21 | Although the king from time to time forbade ‘ puture ’ — the contributions in money and in kind exacted by the foresters — the levying of puture seems to have become a general practice at least by the fourteenth century . |
| 22 | It 's really about time we tackled Manuela , who seems to have become a recurring reference point in this story . |
| 23 | Industry seems to have become a driving force of strident activity , against which background human beings , the miners , are " like shadows " . |
| 24 | Her lips parted to tell him that it did , but hesitation seemed to have become a periodic tendency , afflicting her like hiccoughs . |
| 25 | This seemed to have become a permanent condition . |
| 26 | To the new generation of Romantics he appeared to have become a fossilized appendage of a backward-looking Establishment , which was already , in 1815 , in the process of restoring the eighteenth-century dynasties to the thrones of Europe , so that the French Revolution might never have taken place . |
| 27 | Returning to become a partner in his father 's business , he designed his first recorded work , Read Hall near Whalley , Lancashire , in 1818 at the age of twenty-one and quickly appears to have become the principal architect member of the firm , evidently leaving his father to concentrate on the production of marble chimney-pieces and funerary monuments , which were his speciality . |
| 28 | ‘ WONDERS ’ appears to have become the principal event in the cultural hub of the Tennessee-Arkansas-Mississippi tri-state region . |
| 29 | Unfortunately on these occasions , all too often the prick of conscience , if it has operated at all , is instantly suppressed before it can take control , and it is this which appears to have become the normal response . |
| 30 | To have run the most glorious run of your life , to have become the first European to break ten seconds , to do it in an Olympic final — and then to be falsely accused of drug-taking by an officialdom that was frantically sniffing out Ben Johnsons like a Salem witchfinder ! |