Example sentences of "become [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I then become rather more hesitant , when I have to face up to the problems particularly of er , women looking after elderly parents , because the burden does seem to fall , as you would know , on the women . |
| 2 | When we begin to take the law into our own hands we become little better than those individuals who vandalise our homes and mug old ladies . |
| 3 | The term ‘ pluralism ’ has , at least in empirical political science , become most closely associated with the study of power in American urban government and , in particular , with the community power debate of the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 4 | The distribution of responsibilities between local , national , public and voluntary sectors has also become less rather than more clear , which reduces the possibilities of accountability . |
| 5 | Indeed , they are much less alike than any other group of people whose ages span 40 years , because we all become less alike as we grow older . |
| 6 | The difference is , however , that sexual problems themselves become less socially " permissible " according to the earliness of the age at which they occur . |
| 7 | Political power may be decentralized to some extent , made more democratic , involve the active participation of larger numbers of people , become less directly coercive , but there seems to be no ground upon which to base a theory of the total ‘ withering away ’ of the state and the whole political sphere . |
| 8 | Practical solutions require finding more processes and developing a strategy , but some puzzles become much easier because they have many pieces the same . |
| 9 | Even if , at first reading , you find them formidable , when you come to answer them you will be surprised that they become much easier than you had imagined . |
| 10 | As Pip begins to know him better they become much closer and Pip even wants to save him by smuggling him abroad . |
| 11 | For example , a particular view may appear convincing at first sight , but become much less so when more rigorous analysis exposes certain implicit assumptions , or hitherto unnoticed consequences . |
| 12 | Many " awkward " classes become much less so if some exploration in depth is attempted of the kind of points discussed in this chapter . |
| 13 | WHEN interest rates fall , bank and building society deposits become much less attractive as a home for long term savings than when rates were high . |
| 14 | Many of them are only followed for the first pitch , either because they finish up easier slabs ( which might well suit some people ) or become much harder . |
| 15 | MAKING money has suddenly become much more profitable as recently-created countries wanting to establish their newly-won independence start issuing their own currency . |
| 16 | Somewhere between the ages of eight and 10 children 's ideas of what they want to draw become much more ambitious ; in particular , they want their pictures to be more visually realistic and for most of them this ambition far outstrips their skill . |
| 17 | Many nuns and priests who have worked with the CEBs have found that members become much more self-confident , they no longer feel cowed by fate ( Montgomery 1983 ) . |
| 18 | The population has now become much more dispersed , with birds occurring on many of the larger lakes , reservoirs and areas of gravel pits in the county . |
| 19 | If the model is travelling at some speed , things become much more complicated . |
| 20 | The animals ' daily movements become much more restricted — covering an area of no more than a hundred metres square . |
| 21 | Findings which are replicated throughout a number of countries , or which can be shown to vary under specified conditions , become much more powerful since ‘ an explanatory theory of industrial relations can not be based upon the narrow range of industrial relations processes observable in one , or even a few , countries ’ ( Walker , 1967 , p. 108 ) . |
| 22 | Food allergy and intolerance have certainly become much more common in the adult population and the reason is unknown . |
| 23 | It is when we turn to practices based ( in whole or in part ) on the use or transformation of non-human material objects and forces that the social relations become much more complex and variable . |
| 24 | It may be due to the change of temperature and humidity , or because our sense of smell becomes sharpened as fading light reduces vision , but we certainly become much more aware of scent at night . |
| 25 | Forms become much more generalized ; and they are no longer thrown into relief by the use of a single , consistent light source as in most of the Negroid work . |
| 26 | As assemblies have in general diminished in influence and executives have asserted more control , it has been argued by some that assemblies must change their role and become much more concerned with overseeing the work of the ever-growing bureaucracy . |
| 27 | ‘ And what are you going to do now , Jessamy ? ’ he asked in a voice that had suddenly become much more taut . |
| 28 | As we have emphasized earlier , the objectives of the firm become much more complex once we allow for incomplete markets and for differences between shareholders in their beliefs and objectives . |
| 29 | Although at first sight the answers to them seem obvious , they become much more complex and contestable when subjected to closer examination , and they have never been systematically brought together , or the questions definitively resolved . |
| 30 | The expenditure side has now become much more fully developed but the analysis of the sources of finance , especially taxation , remains very important . |