Example sentences of "become more [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Medical care outside the hospitals grew in importance in the second half of the century , becoming more than the prerogative of the rich .
2 So it 's not a progression all in one way but I have to say that even by the standards of the Lloyd George era , the battle by memoir which we now see for considerable sums of money has become more than a cottage industry , it 's a production line industry .
3 More important , James IV lived in what J. R. Hale has described as a new age — the age when European wars became more than a matter of ‘ violent housekeeping ’ .
4 It became more than a family home but a working farm and , they hoped , an inspirational headquarters for their international design empire .
5 With these decisions Darwin became more than the protégé of Lyell .
6 The question now arises : can that rational animal Man ever become more than an animal which criticizes its own spontaneous tendencies in the light of its awareness of itself and of external conditions ?
7 As Arnold himself so clearly saw , ‘ a society formed exclusively of boys , that is of elements each separately weak and imperfect , becomes more than an aggregate of their several defects ; the amount of evil in the mass is greater than the sum of evil in the individuals ’ .
8 If neural networks are ever to become more than a lab curiosity with the odd exotic application in the real world , Intel Corp 's new Ni1000 chip , developed with Providence , Rhode Island-based Nestor Inc should provide the breakthrough .
9 they constantly threatened to become more than a handful in every sense , so one sad Saturday he sold the sows with their litters at Taunton market — and since then has dealt with pigs only on paper .
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