Example sentences of "do become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the position did become clearer in various respects ; and the problems and disputes which arose were seldom so acute or threatening as they had sometimes been in the past . |
| 2 | But the quartier did become much less the frame of reference for work , trade , and consumption for the popular classes . |
| 3 | There was no attempt to glamorise her visually but by words and performance she really did become that desirable lady , one who would indeed swim naked with a Greek boatman . |
| 4 | When it did become available , it was possible to repeat some of the earlier investigations with the CED and OALD using the larger sample size that was recommended , and to include the LDOCE as a further choice of dictionary . |
| 5 | On the other hand , more information did become available and there was more scrutiny of executive action . |
| 6 | When I did become pregnant , it was amidst much rejoicing — the heir of Abraham was to be born . |
| 7 | In the case of the sociological positivists , this reluctance applied even when they did become involved in the analysis of the operation of penal institutions — when the ‘ sociology of the prison blossomed in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 8 | It is clear that if Hastings did become disenchanted with his erstwhile ally , the split did not develop until later and therefore , presumably , for other reasons . |
| 9 | It is clear that if Hastings did become disenchanted with his erstwhile ally , the split did not develop until later and therefore , presumably , for other reasons . |
| 10 | It can hardly be said that his optimism was fully justified , though ironically enough the supply did become more than adequate in most seasons from the middle of the century onwards , when traffic dropped away . |
| 11 | He was not concerned at the early pace set by Bully Boy , but he did become worried at the water jump , where he changed his hands and asked his mount to quicken with hands and heels , as he had dropped his whip . |
| 12 | The technical pensions literature of the early 1960s advised employers to leave women out of pension schemes and give ex gratia ( unfunded ) pensions to that dwindling minority of single women who did become long-serving employees ( Pilch and Wood , 1960 , p. 80 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ But you did become engaged ? ’ |
| 14 | For those who do become anxious , the problem arises the next time he wants to make love . |
| 15 | Of course , individuals do become fluent in the exercise of language within a number of very different contexts and some of these may not , at first sight , appear to be social . |
| 16 | It could also be that there is a general deficiency of demand for labour throughout the economy , in which case the involuntarily unemployed workers will face fierce competition for the jobs that do become available . |
| 17 | If you are keeping very healthy and do become pregnant , the pregnancy will not necessarily make you more ill or encourage sickness . |
| 18 | You find yourselves together every day of the week , all over the world , all through the winters , getting changed to go out riding … and you do become close . |
| 19 | There is some repetition as the authors backtrack to report the same developments from different points of view and new characters are introduced ; the detailed mathematical discussions do become daunting for the non-specialist reader . |
| 20 | The implication is that poverty is due to lack of involvement with successful capitalist enterprise and , though a minority of the poor do become successful entrepreneurs by building up small businesses from street selling , the vast majority are poor because they are excluded from the modern economy . |
| 21 | and luckily that the , the song that we did was funny and so people enjoyed it , but they did n't understand it and they did n't have a visual image of the artist 's work , so I now have to take erm a couple of pictures , er prints with me if ever were going to read it and we sing those songs but not everybody does , and then they do become excessible you know , they can see , you know , that erm , yes erm if it , if I was going to publish a book of poem I , it would have to be stated that this related to this picture and presumably it 'd have to be , it would be with it , with it |
| 22 | Once they do become free swimming you can begin to feed them . |
| 23 | My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others ' troubles ( or of future danger to myself ) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty ( or to avoid or irrationally court danger ) when I do become aware ; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted . |
| 24 | If rabbits do become cornered and then located there are no difficulties digging down through the minor roots from the thicket . |
| 25 | Shock , but after a while their limbs 'll start trembling and they become very confused , now a person , a perfectly nice person , oh , you know , always very helpful and kind can suddenly become aggressive and they really do become aggressive and , if they go to violence their strength , oh where they get it from god only knows , but they could literally throw a person across the room . |
| 26 | That if you do become ill you accept the fact and do everything necessary to recover . |
| 27 | When they do become ill the John Warin ward in Oxford is there for them at every stage . |
| 28 | How can those women who do become conscious of their predicament act to change their situation ? |
| 29 | Well this is where the problem of levying charges does become controversial . |
| 30 | If the soil does become dry , water your plants well to remoisten the earth to at least 30 cm deep . |