Example sentences of "[pron] have become [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the last three years I 've become accustomed to refinement . ’ |
| 2 | What the outcome of seeing him might be is beside the point ; I have become incapable of calculation . |
| 3 | ‘ I have become interested in astronomy , so I want to buy a telescope . |
| 4 | Also basing his work on media language , written as well as spoken , Bell ( 1985 ) studies in real time the spread of a process of determiner deletion in noun phrases which has become common in news reports , as demonstrated in 35 as opposed to 36 : |
| 5 | What these moral stances have done successfully , is to define the Labour Party as progressive , which has become synonymous with irresponsibility and permissiveness . |
| 6 | The furniture had all been renewed , upholstered for preference in red velvet , and in all the state rooms the great ceilings , which had become grimy through neglect , had been regilded and repainted . |
| 7 | One of Linskog 's patients had a lymphatic tumour which had become resistant to radiotherapy ; situated in the jaw , it was making eating and breathing difficult . |
| 8 | Since then , the Government has created the local enterprise companies , many of which have become involved in internationalisation programmes . |
| 9 | The problem is n't just with the person who has become dependent on alcohol . |
| 10 | Recently , however , she has become involved in documentary photography which reveals all the anomalies and distortions of the once sick and self-destructive society . |
| 11 | That I did n't tell Richard , was partly for Sophie 's sake — to say she had become interested in politics would have been stretching his credulity too far — but also for my own . |
| 12 | On 20 April 1964 Lonsdale was exchanged for a British businessman , Greville Wynne , who had become involved in espionage and been imprisoned in Russia . |
| 13 | The founder was a man who had become interested in aviation during the thirties , spent the war in the South African Air Force and , on returning to civilian life , foresaw the opportunities that could be won with cheaply acquired and converted military aircraft . |
| 14 | His most recent work finds him distinguishing between two separate ‘ fractions ’ of the dislocated working class who have become involved in soccer violence as a result of the peculiar material circumstances affecting their daily lives . |
| 15 | If you do find this a particular problem during the early stages of F-Plan dieting , concentrate on the meals which do not have a high content of peas and beans until you have become accustomed to high-fibre |
| 16 | Do you think we have become obsessed with conservation ? |
| 17 | And in an era when we have become used to world leaders in their Sixties and Seventies , many other former rebels and youth heroes are now older than the world 's ultimate figure of authority . |
| 18 | The brave idea of starting the concert with Luciano Berio 's Sequenza VI for solo viola ( Paul Silverthorne ) alerted us to the fact that , in orchestral concerts , we have become accustomed to concert ‘ themes ’ and the overture / concerto / symphony format . |
| 19 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 20 | He had become used to washing and shaving in cold water . |
| 21 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 22 | But by 1957 he had become disenchanted with government service and decided it was time to join the private sector . |
| 23 | A 16 year old who spoke at a Young Enterprise presentation admitted that he was not much of a public speaker and that he had become disaffected with school where he had ‘ failed ’ regularly . |