Example sentences of "become [noun] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Move to the Right , accept Witte 's or Stolypin 's terms for a few posts in the cabinet , and they risked becoming hostages in a regime over which they would exercise no control . |
| 2 | It is the firm conviction of your Board that you should not become shareholders in a company with such an unsound strategy . |
| 3 | Team manager Michael Cane and commercial executive Colin Cordy have become partners in a Formula 3000 team to be based in South Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | Admittedly most of us become egoists in a struggle for mere physical survival , — starving men fighting for food , drowning men climbing into an over-weighted boat ; but it does not follow that we can become egoists from principle in conditions where basic human needs are satisfied . |
| 5 | Tenants ' association club on the Sparrow Farm estate … it is alleged that people who had been drinking at the club attacked the family in the off-licence opposite PHOTOGRAPHS : KENNETH SAUNDERS Bitter questions of racial violence Ramesh K and his family were hounded out of their Feltham off-licence by 18 months of abuse and attacks , during which time they became pawns in a battle between the local council , the police and two rival race relations bodies . |
| 6 | It would enable them to really allow the greater selves in themselves to be the people representing their people , their country , er so it would allow them to become statesmen in a sense , you know , it would allow the wise part of them to come forth , and for them to be in harmony with each other . |
| 7 | It is very easy to allow minor offences to become bricks in a wall between the two of us . |