Example sentences of "become [adv] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But from my own researches it became plain to me that she was very much a person of her times , as compared with Beatrice Webb who became so much a critic of her times . |
| 2 | As a result the society became less specifically a group of the left . |
| 3 | Since the Libyan system allowed no formal campaign with a beginning and a pre-announced end , the agonistic element was concentrated in the ballot which became much more a contest between voters than one between candidates . |
| 4 | Certainly he was becoming ever more a man on his own . |
| 5 | I 'm afraid he 's becoming as much a danger to us as he is to everyone else . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ They 're becoming very much a part of the treatment of diabetes these days . |
| 7 | Its certainty was attained once the bill was separated from the charter party and became not only a receipt for the goods but also an independent ( captain or master of the vessel issued ) abstract document of title . |
| 8 | In medieval Christianity they became more specifically a symbol of purity , not just because of their gentle lustre , but still more because they were grown secretly and , it was believed , with personal suffering by the oyster . ) |
| 9 | This led to an improvement in trade and a fall in inflation , so that Germany in the late 1980s became once again a country of trade surpluses and a strong currency , at the cost of some social division . |
| 10 | Down in Chesney St Michael-in-the-Moor tolled the hour — six , seven , eight , and on the last note , the red light glimmered and failed , the harp-like shadows fled and the Altar became once more a sheet of half-buried stone . |
| 11 | She became once more a woman of first instincts . |
| 12 | When constraints are particularly heavy and pressing , though , teaching may become not just a matter of coping , which in some senses all teaching is , but of sheer survival . |
| 13 | Punch is certainly one of the great British institutions , and has become so much a way of life as to make it impossible to imagine a world without it . |
| 14 | These ways have become so much a part of the fabric of dance that they are used almost unknowingly by teachers and dancers . |
| 15 | By 1945 , German ‘ solutions ’ in the east had become so much a part of the German view of the world and ‘ German historic destiny ’ that the Russians and the Poles , who had played human safety-valve to German ambition throughout their long joint histories , saw dismemberment of German territory in the east as the only possible long-term solution . |
| 16 | These characters have become so much a part of our own childhood that we almost forget their origin . |
| 17 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
| 18 | It has become so much a part of them that they are often unaware of its existence . |
| 19 | We then start to read the familiar stories of ward closures and idle operating theatres which have become so much a part of the New Year celebrations and which the reforms were supposed to eliminate . |
| 20 | It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’ |
| 21 | By the late 1970s the state sector had become not only a harbour of inefficiency , as in many ‘ developed ’ countries , but also a greenhouse of the hybrid values emerging in Africa many of which were inimical to efficient methods of low-cost production . |
| 22 | To them , the Kenneth Williams voices and the Kenneth Williams faces , the flared nostrils and that snide look that had become as much a trademark as the ‘ stop messing about ’ sounds on radio were instantly recognizable . |
| 23 | In recent years , various government ‘ do n't drink and drive ’ campaigns have become as much a part of Christmas as turkey , trees and tinsel . |
| 24 | In most RMI contexts , this new structure has become almost universally a version of the clinical directorate model . |
| 25 | Uniforms have always been attractive to certain women , and the flame-retardant overalls have become pretty much a uniform . |
| 26 | ‘ Could it be that crime has become too easy , that violence has become too much a theme of television and videos , that respect for other people has gone too much out of fashion and too many young people see no stake for themselves in this society and see more of a future in crime and the black economy ? ’ he asked . |
| 27 | This new chap , Dunbar , seemed to have become very much a part of Madeleine 's life ; Lady Debrace approved of him and obviously Aubrey liked him . |
| 28 | The resulting emphasis on personalism and personalised relationships has become very much a feature of social life in the New World , too . |
| 29 | The Scots engineer became as much a part of the legends of the land as Bruce ‘ s spider and the story of Sawney Bean . |
| 30 | So an era ends and a new one begins for the newspaper which became as much a part of the Ulster Saturday as the bar , the bookie 's and the bath . |