Example sentences of "it become [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | For years he had preached it , he had believed it intellectually , but never had it become personal to him . |
2 | So we ca n't get there because it become impractical and those people get lost . |
3 | Has it become worse or better since you first arrived here ? |
4 | It become preoccupied with its own problem and the rabbit is forgotten . |
5 | Those who search for something and never find it become dispirited or cynical and eventually it becomes very hard to motivate them to climb the next hill . |
6 | Contact with it turns new wine sour , crops touched by it become barren , grafts die , seeds in gardens are dried up , the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled , hives of bees die , even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust , and a horrible smell fills the air ; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison … |
7 | As the difficulties in holding to it become clear so we examine the exact opposite — its antithesis . |
8 | Things do not go well , and as they climb higher it become clear that they are also no longer philosophically in tune . |
9 | Only since the general adoption of the policy of specialisation engendered by the Industrial Revolution has it become common to demolish and rebuild rather than to adapt and extend . |
10 | At first , this largely involved the search for loop-holes in central government legislation : if , for example , the rules suggested that future grant depended on spending in a particular year , then it was possible with little difficulty to prepare the accounts to show that spending had been higher or lower that year ( whichever was the required answer ) , More important , perhaps , as time went on , it become common for councils and their treasurers to seek new sources of funding which were not covered by the rules or were covered by different rules . |
11 | I 've had my reservations about all three of these acts at one time or another , but , standing here , gripped and pulsing , in Chicago University 's Mandel Hall , my veins pumping nothing but Dr Pepper and fatigue , it become obvious that I WAS WRONG ALL THE WAY . |
12 | Only within the last hundred years has it become evident that a sperm is in no way comparable to the seed of a plant , which is a multicellular reproductive structure containing the embryo of the plant . |
13 | And I think that debate er between the , the tradition and , and the the and and er , Roman Catholic traditions , you know i er , this business of elevating the host and and substantiation so the elements themselves that , that it become holy alright ? |