Example sentences of "not become [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is equally important that disciplinary proceedings should not become unduly protracted . |
| 2 | Encourage the puppy to allow you to have the toy on occasions right from the outset so that it does not become unduly possessive in later life , as this can lead to aggressive behaviour . |
| 3 | In short , we would not become just another bank , but will remain Abbey national and all that has traditionally meant , and in addition will offer as wide a range of personal financial services as our customers require now and in the future . |
| 4 | Although the countryside did not become completely agricultural because of the continuing importance of extractive industries and the tenacious existence of some manufacture in the agricultural ancillary trades , farming was unquestionably the mainstay of the rural economy . |
| 5 | A man could not become completely impoverished , but it only rarely happened that anyone grew rich . ’ |
| 6 | Burgess 's Class 1 prose is transparent in the sense that the reader need not become consciously aware of the medium through which sense is conveyed to him . |
| 7 | This would enable a tough general manager to ensure that medical audit did not become simply a talk shop or token activity . |
| 8 | Turning points in relationships , too , are often mapped out in this way — a quarrel , a meeting , a reconciliation may mark the moment of ‘ conception ’ ; one knows that a new phase is beginning but it does not become openly apparent until this nine-month span has past . |
| 9 | They can not become emotionally involved , and if faced with difficulties they withdraw their interest because their motivation and commitment are often very superficial . |
| 10 | The Streetlink cash will be used to employ a youth worker , who will strive to ensure young people do not become either the victims or the perpetrators of crime . |
| 11 | Antibacterial drugs , such as the sulphonamides , did not become generally available until some years later , and as in the case of erysipelas in Dr. Prior 's day , the only treatment consisted of isolation with adequate nursing care and hygiene . |
| 12 | Although it achieved classic status , it did not become generally known until the late Victorian period , when Frances Hodgson Burnett [ q.v. ] , who had read the book as a child , retold part of it from memory in St Nicholas in 1887 , and the proper text was ‘ rediscovered ’ . |
| 13 | Prior to submission and at an early stage in drafting , a coding system should be developed to ensure , as far as possible , that price sensitive information does not become generally available . |
| 14 | She does not become criminally liable merely by assisting her husband to escape punishment for a crime which she knows him to have committed ; and it is only within certain limits that husband and wife are competent , and within narrower limits that they are compellable , to give evidence against one another , in criminal proceedings . |
| 15 | Alexia was critically acclaimed , and several major galleries purchased her , but she did not become immediately collectible . |
| 16 | It was in these very multi-ethnic areas with their myriad problems that ‘ political agitators exploit civil liberties issues , and play down the issue of communal security … individual liberties are important , but we must not become so obsessed with them that we overlook the importance of communal freedom . ’ |
| 17 | But , like observers of cricket , we must not become so engrossed in our analysis of the statistics of the game that we lose sight of the fundamental issues of strategy . |
| 18 | The sexual undertones may not become so evident . |
| 19 | Pupils must not become so intent on filling in the answers , that they ignore other important factors such as the " feel " and atmosphere of the site . |
| 20 | There are , however , homœopathists who carry about with them on their visits to patients the homœopathic medicines in the fluid state , and who yet assert that they do not become more highly potentised in the course of time , but they thereby show their want of ability to observe correctly . |
| 21 | Even beyond the middle of the century , when Palladian architecture acquires some rivals , the description of houses does not become more frequent . |
| 22 | There will still be reasons , adduced below , for objecting to an account of predicate qualifiers as based on either clauses or abstract clauses , but on the general suggestion that an abstract clause , of this or that design , might be a useful grammatical device , we may point out that , as we remarked in Section 3.7 , a claim that some structure is a reduced form of a clause is not explanatory ; and it does not become more explanatory if the appeal is to a hypothetical or abstract clause . |
| 23 | AROUND 3,000 white-collar jobs at British Coal are set to be axed and more pits could close if the industry does not become more competitive , the corporation 's chairman admitted yesterday . |
| 24 | As he kicks , slide the rear foot back and withdraw your leading foot by an equal amount so that your stance does not become too long . |
| 25 | For we should not become too carried away by Labour 's changed face and tone of voice , nor too dazzled by the Peter Mandelson image-conjuring . |
| 26 | Strains of that thinking can be seen today in France 's wish that the commission and the parliament should not become too powerful . |
| 27 | This means that whilst the developer produces full shadow details to work from in the negative , the highlight areas do not become too dense so blocking-up any highlight details . |
| 28 | It is a good idea to take a week 's break every month as skin brushing , like many natural detoxification techniques , is more effective if the body does not become too accustomed to it . |
| 29 | Generally , if you keep an open mind , and do not become too engrossed in the technicalities , you will pick up danger signals fairly quickly , should they come your way . |
| 30 | The idea that there was a golden age of family obligations in the past was born out of a desire to ensure that increasing numbers of elderly people ( and other dependent groups ) in the population did not become too heavy a burden financially upon the wealthier classes ; hence the anxieties about whether working-class people had an adequate sense of ‘ filial affection ’ , which can be documented from at least the nineteenth century . |