Example sentences of "would become [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Without a generally accepted code of manners life would become thoroughly uncouth and unpleasant , so parents need to pass this on to their children .
2 The government announced on March 4 that the rupee would become partly convertible .
3 The imminent abolition of most border controls as a consequence of the implementation of the Single European Market raised the likelihood that illegal entry would become easier after January 1993 .
4 There would be no peace conference ; the crime against the Palestinians would become even blacker .
5 These remarks , as they stand , are sweeping generalisations based upon the narrowest of samples ; nevertheless we know with the wisdom of hindsight that the trends in question were definitely there in the 19th century and would become even more obvious in the 20th — that families would be smaller , and that the survival rate would improve dramatically .
6 If Balbinder did n't get a place at Cedars this year she would become even more anxious about his progress .
7 It was a way to guarantee that slovenly practices and inefficiencies would become even more firmly entrenched .
8 He would become even more mysterious when questioned .
9 If this site is phosphorylated the N terminal region would become even more acidic .
10 Looked at more closely still the dissolved athlete would become even more inscrutable than usual and could only be described with a set of equations which guessed where his component particles might be .
11 He would become again a Northern Ireland Protestant — though with a difference , certainly : he was no longer a resident ; he was learned ; he had the wonderful gifts both of imagination and a clear and analytical mind ; and above all his faith came of Grace to which he responded heroically , in patience and self-sacrifice — when he was aware of himself .
12 Leavis himself is by now reduced to an expression of gratitude for the letters page of The Times in " the world of triumphant modernity , the world of power centres from which the quantity-addicted machinery of civilization is controlled , directed and exploited " and in which " literature in the old sense has ceased to matter " Henceforth the conception of English as a central force for sustaining the national cultural " heritage " would become largely the property of the right .
13 It is clear that , if the Labour party were elected , the position in which we find ourselves today would become dramatically worse .
14 All she had to do was cross a couple of wires and George would become just another victim of a tragic domestic ‘ accident ’ .
15 Of course , broadcast signals would become pretty attenuated over such huge distances .
16 The concept of habitat focused attention on the forces confining a species to areas with a certain environment , and would become particularly important in later ecological studies .
17 Nelson , however , feared that once the song was no longer in vogue , his product would become similarly unfashionable .
18 She would become overly effusive in response , feeling hopelessly alone .
19 Apart from encroachments on Western-held territories , the trend in Japanese strategic thinking made it inevitable that the crisis in East Asia , resulting from the China War , would become closely tied up with the course of events in Europe .
20 No doubt in due course they would become equally vocal in their complaints about the French , but Thiercelin decided that so far as possible his own behaviour should be above reproach .
21 The danger with this was that the longer it went on the more likely it became that both players and fans would get their priorities wrong , so that the feeling of ‘ we may as well concentrate on what we 're good at and not bother too much about Tests ’ would become steadily more predominant .
22 It is also perfectly in order to say , ‘ May I think about that for a moment ? ’ before answering a question , although clearly it would become rather tedious if you said that every time .
23 Some of those services used to build up a wonderful feeling , and now and then it would become rather emotional with the preacher calling on folk to come forward to the penitents ' bench at the front to re-dedicate their lives to the Lord .
24 It had seemed a good idea at the time , a bit of expensive and unusual fun with some of her friends , and sure , she had been intrigued when she had been told that she should beware of her fiery nature 's setting alight a situation which would become frighteningly uncontrollable , but that was three days ago .
25 Marx argues in many places , but most clearly in the Preface to the Critique of Political Economy , that the source of the destruction of the capitalist system would come from the fact that the social system which itself had been created in order to work the factories and markets of capitalism would become increasingly incompatible with the technological requirements of these factories and markets , and that ultimately this incompatibility would lead to revolution .
26 After the Act took effect , it would become increasingly important to coordinate the efforts of all personnel in this respect , and to establish a focal point for business activities .
27 Dropped by the one section of the establishment which supported it , and adopting policies that ensured that popular opinion would become increasingly hostile , Mosley destroyed whatever small likelihood the BUF had of becoming an effective force in British politics .
28 Indeed , in theory all that is required is that a sufficient number of direct iterations is made , with the columns orthogonalised as the last step ; in practice , however , the numbers would become increasingly ill-conditioned as S is raised to a high power and approximates to a unit rank matrix .
29 One of the difficulties of proceeding with the single currency , particularly if a small number of member states within the Community were to proceed on their own , is that it would become increasingly difficult for others to join them at a later stage .
30 Some would suffer from the cold , others from the heat , and still others would become badly matted and tangled without their daily grooming .
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