Example sentences of "have become a kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage . |
| 2 | Instead of being recuperated to the masculine gender , though , as has happened to words like astronaut , person has become a kind of euphemism for woman . |
| 3 | The dining-room has been fitted up ( but she ‘ could n't for goodness gracious tell why ’ ) in the ‘ middle-aged style ’ , and the drawing-room , supposedly her province , has become a kind of . |
| 4 | Her career has become a kind of obsession ; her voice , the instrument of his enrapturement , a thing to be cherished and protected , to the degree that social life is circumscribed because of the effect which smoky parties might have on her . |
| 5 | The house had become a kind of bolt hole for a clutch of growing and maturing sons . |
| 6 | He had become a kind of totem ; his extraordinary authority was based on that . |
| 7 | The two sisters had converted the stables attached to their home , Miller 's House in Lewes , into a studio which during the war had become a kind of arts centre , where exhibitions , lectures and concerts were held and which received support and encouragement from eminent names . |
| 8 | If it had been anyone else who had probed into her private feelings , Alice might have been angry , but this man had become a kind of father-figure to her these past years , and despite the motives Jules might attribute to him , she truly believed her employer had her well-being at heart . |
| 9 | The trouble now is that jargon , both the thing and the word , have become a kind of battle ground . |
| 10 | But it has also begun to create a corporate culture where some companies have become a kind of economic prison where senior management can legally abuse and ill-treat their employees , and silence any protest with the threat of the sack . |