Example sentences of "become [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Insurers settle a partial loss they acquire no proprietary rights in the subject matter insured — but they become subrogated to all the rights and remedies of the Policyholder in so far as the Policyholder has been indemnified under the Policy . |
| 2 | The Bolsheviks had suddenly become exposed to the full blast of inter-state competition . |
| 3 | When children start school , they often develop all kinds of minor illnesses as they first become exposed to a large community ; a fact the nurse seeking her first employment after the birth of her child may not know . |
| 4 | Until the reign of Mehmed II ( 1451–81 ) it is difficult to speak of a learned hierarchy since the practice of reserving the individual offices of state to men of a particular background and training whether to slaves of the Palace School system , to the ulema , or to men of the bureaucratic profession — had not yet become developed to any very great degree . |
| 5 | If elderly individuals see life through helpless , defeated eyes , where they become resigned to pain and disappointment , loneliness and despair , their reaction to new situations will not be positive . |
| 6 | Life will be much pleasanter and smoother if we become resigned to that fact , if we become friends instead of enemies . " |
| 7 | But that we become committed to it as the way to save the country and the peace appears to me full of dangers . ’ |
| 8 | Similarly , bankers become committed to a customer if they can not withdraw facilities without causing that customer financial distress . |
| 9 | That is , why is it that some people rather than others who experience the type of disparity described above become committed to a movement for moral reform ? |
| 10 | Firstly , many innovations are school-wide in their application and can not be implemented at all unless a number of teachers , perhaps even the entire staff of a school , both agree to , and become committed to , their implementation . |
| 11 | Within the profession the general feeling is that the greater the degree of autonomy that can be given to teachers and schools , the more likely are they to accept responsibility for educational provision and become committed to improving its quality . |
| 12 | Balanced , fair and thorough negotiation is the key to a smooth running contract and all the relevant contractual terms and mechanisms should be considered and agreed before the parties become committed to the contract . |
| 13 | Invasive cells spread into the tissues surrounding the primary tumour ; penetrate into blood vessels , lymphatics , or body cavities ; and become dispersed to distant areas . |
| 14 | Among them , argues Engels , women 's wishes and happiness become subjugated to the needs of maintaining the ownership of the means of production within the dominant class . |
| 15 | Un-learning is more difficult than learning — because we become habituated to thinking or feeling in certain ways over time . |
| 16 | The majority of students become acclimatised to these sensations after a few flights , but every instructor is aware that some students are particularly sensitive to these feelings and can develop a total abhorrence of stalling and pitching manoeuvres . |
| 17 | She had never become acclimatised to city life . |
| 18 | It is important to consider what sort of data we shall be using and how it is to be obtained before we become over-committed to the project . |
| 19 | At the governmental level , administration and whole health care systems become geared to particular forms of approach . |
| 20 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 21 | This means , says Jose , that people become tied to the drug culture , not only through fear but also through gratitude . |
| 22 | Some spits grow from the mainland towards islands , with the result that the islands become tied to the land by shingle bars , which are known as tombolos . |
| 23 | That is not easy for them to do , for so extremely have their bodies become adapted to life in the air that their legs are greatly reduced in size . |
| 24 | Darwin is important in any history of the environmental sciences because his theory focused attention onto the problem of how species become adapted to their environment . |
| 25 | At the personal level , doctors and their patients become conditioned to particular forms of treatment . |
| 26 | It constitutes the best evidence we have come across so far that training in which the critical stimuli become linked to different events generates a unique source of transfer to further discrimination learning . |
| 27 | Adults with cystic fibrosis become known to ACFA by transfer from the Cystic Fibrosis Research Trust 's mailing list when they reach the age of 18 , or by direct referral . |
| 28 | 4.15PM After the hundredth charred building , I become numbed to the destruction and find myself only stopping to photograph the ironic and unusual : a rental outlet called ‘ Hot Videos ’ up in flames , men carrying couches and lamps through the shattered window of a furniture store next to a large inviting sign : ‘ Come in for real bargains ’ . |
| 29 | The other was that as a wizard — even a dead wizard of the fifteenth grade , his optic nerves had long since become attuned to seeing into levels and dimensions far removed from common reality , and were therefore somewhat inefficient at observing the merely mundane . |
| 30 | Lind believes that as we become sensitized to a particular quality or relationship so attentive focus comes to oscillate amongst all the similar proximate elements . |