Example sentences of "have become [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will themselves have become members of the community , at least by adoption . |
| 2 | If he had not tried to cancel it ( and so murdered Macduff 's family ) , Macduff might not have killed him ; if he had not killed Duncan , he might conceivably have become king some other way . |
| 3 | In Ecgfrith 's case , by the same principle , if he was killed in the fifteenth year of his reign and had only been king fourteen years , he may have become king in 671 and certainly could not have done so before 21 May 670 . |
| 4 | A record of the settlement of a dispute involving the bishop of Worcester in 789 , which refers to Offa as then in his thirty-first year as king ( CS 256 : S 1430 ) , means that Offa can not have become king before 758 . |
| 5 | Clovis and the Franks might easily have become arian . |
| 6 | She turned slowly to give him a long , searching look and decided he must have become expert at keeping his emotions on a tight rein . |
| 7 | Or you might have become part of a large co-operative farm , where you would virtually farm as you were told in every facet by those in charge . |
| 8 | She does n't , of course , mention it , but as a researcher living among the Masai she must have become part of the total social fact herself . |
| 9 | Because had we had them any other way , you may have fallen into the dilemma as you 've suggested , that the shop stewards may have become part of the management . |
| 10 | I still regret that Jardine was do unbending towards me ; we might even have become friends . |
| 11 | In 1716 money troubles made the family move to lodgings in Salisbury , where they may have become friends of Henry Fielding [ q.v. ] and his family . |
| 12 | Had Lord Mountbatten lived , there is a good chance that Diana Spencer would not have become Princess of Wales . |
| 13 | Had Mountbatten lived , Diana may never have become Princess of Wales |
| 14 | The vital link — the ‘ first ancestress ’ — was James I 's granddaughter , Sophia of the Palatinate [ q.v. ] , who by the Act of the Protestant Succession of June 1701 would have become queen in her own right if she had outlived Queen Anne . |
| 15 | He might have become treasurer in 1332 but for his reluctance to buy the office . |
| 16 | To their dismay they see quantification invading their own subject : they might as well have become physicists or engineers if English literature , Greek history and even New Testament theology now offer no escape from those wretched numbers . |
| 17 | It is ironic both that the new architecture of the masses should eventually have ended the dominance of great houses , and that more ordinary men and women should have become protagonists in the novel , for these were not the developments , either in life or in art , that Disraeli had in mind . |
| 18 | Harold , John and Melvyn , who might have become Lords Pinter , Mortimer and Bragg — until the House of Lords was abolished . |
| 19 | No , recorded Hilary , had I married him , he would have become President of the United States . |
| 20 | Of course you could have become Lord Mayor then if you 'd been an alderman ? |
| 21 | The previous type may then have become invalid , and coin users presumably had to replace it with the new one , a troublesome process , as the volume of some types ran into millions of coins . |
| 22 | It would therefore follow that unless Molla Yegan were using the title though in fact an ex-kadi , he must have become kadi again in the years alter returning with Molla Gurani . |
| 23 | One of the few circumstantial items of information we have suggests that if the Romans had not destroyed Carthage the Carthaginian intellectuals , like the Greek intellectuals , would have become pro-Roman . |
| 24 | On these figures , Felix must have become bishop by 631 at the latest , so that three years before this gives 628 for the slaying of Eorpwald , whose conversion would have followed very rapidly indeed on Eadwine 's and his assassination very swiftly on his conversion . |
| 25 | Because the machines in their teeming millions , large and small , will have become symbols of class and prosperity , like horses to Red Indian tribes or slaves to Romans . |
| 26 | Third , many of the new records will have become synonyms ; if they are relatively frequently accessed this may cause a marked increase in run times . |
| 27 | Given the long dormancy of the virus , some people now in monogamous relationships of several years standing could have become HIV positive before they met their present partner , and be completely unaware of this fact . |
| 28 | As a Republican , a Primitive Baptist preacher and a self-described ‘ dumb farm boy ’ , Mr Hunt should never have become governor . |
| 29 | The firmness of the houses has not changed ; a few may have become offices , or been sub-divided into what must surely be splendid apartments , but the depth of the society persists . |
| 30 | However , if they had been granted representation proportionate to their minute share of those votes , four or five of their candidates could have become MdBs : the exclusion clause served to prevent that . |