Example sentences of "become [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local communities became less a defence against the pressures of a hostile world , more a basis for active resistance : . |
| 2 | For him it now became less a place of protest than a refuge for failures , free-loaders and misfits . |
| 3 | That is how a system for dealing with genuine refugees — the losers in Indochina 's civil wars — became insensibly a system for turning North Vietnamese peasants into New York waiters . |
| 4 | That is how a system for dealing with genuine refugees — the losers in Indochina 's civil wars — became insensibly a system for turning North Vietnamese peasants into New York waiters . |
| 5 | I kept them to myself , where they constantly grew in depth and where they became merely a backdrop to my private obsession : home , family , school , everything . |
| 6 | Being middle class was becoming more a matter of consumption than of belief . |
| 7 | becoming later a Doctor of Divinity and a distinguished Minister of the United Church of Canada . |
| 8 | Increasing cultural complexities suggest that Lodge 's image of the crossroads might even be brought up to date — and given , appropriately , a faintly foreign flavour — by the possibility of post-imperial Britain becoming increasingly a sort of spaghetti junction , heterogeneous styles and registers meeting , intertwining , competing or coalescing . |
| 9 | In both the government and the opposition press in Morocco , the situation in the Western Sahara was meanwhile becoming increasingly a focus for nationalist commentary . |
| 10 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 11 | The sound of the water had become muted ; like background music , it receded from consciousness , becoming almost a part of the stillness and the silence . |
| 12 | LABOUR 'S policy review was a symbol of the party renewing itself and becoming again a force for change , Tom Sawyer , deputy general secretary of Nupe , the public sector workers ' union , said at the start of four days of debate on the review reports . |
| 13 | became just a kind of foreman , or perhaps a member of lower managerial supervisory staff … the employers appear to have been determined to take the important decisions themselves rather than leave the butty with a significant degree of independence , as the modernity and high level of mechanization of the new pits perhaps dictated . |
| 14 | From being a central coordinator determining a common line to be followed by all member firms , they became more a centre to which their members might turn for advice and industrial relations services , particularly those relating to the expanding field of labour law and other consequences of government action such as incomes policy requirements . |
| 15 | All too easily Soho could become less a way of life than an unbreakable habit . |
| 16 | If we are troubled by the fact that the corporatist countervision we find hinted at in the legal materials might become simply a mask behind which corporate managers exercise unconstrained economic and social power , an alternative avenue for research is available to us . |
| 17 | Taping your own sound effects is another interesting part of video movie making : it can become almost a hobby in itself . |
| 18 | The ‘ key informant ’ will often be the same individual as made possible the researcher 's access to the group , and may become almost a partner in the research . |
| 19 | As a result of losing the war in 1948 — excuse us for winning — the Arabs became partly a community of refugees . |
| 20 | Trusted paper became both a collateral for short-term credit and an immensely important medium of exchange . |
| 21 | This has no practical purpose whatsoever but has become rather a measure of ability — if you can duck gybe it is an indication that you must be quite good . |
| 22 | One other respect in which Pascal is a modem thinker is in his view , which he shared with the Jansenists , that language had proven too strong for mystery , so that theology had become merely a branch of rhetoric . |
| 23 | When the true meaning of the custom had been forgotten , and the maypole had become merely a part of the holiday festivities , people saw no reason for felling a new tree every year and began to leave one erected permanently , merely decking it with flowers and fresh greenery on Mayday . |
| 24 | The demand for central direction , then , partly as we have seen , a demand that the Local Education Authorities should be kept in their place , has become also a demand for a particular style of rigorous , and rigorously examined , curriculum . |
| 25 | There can be no doubt that the PhD , no longer seen as a sign of unusually high scholarly achievement , has become simply a certificate of professional competence , and that intellectual standards have declined accordingly . |
| 26 | When people of the late 1970s and 1980s remembered those heady times it was the ludicrous lack of realism that they recalled rather than the idealism — ‘ hippie ’ had become simply a term of abuse . |
| 27 | Being a replacement had become almost a way of life . |
| 28 | His voice had become almost a screech of anger and frustration . |
| 29 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he said , ‘ she 's become quite a favourite with the company . ’ |
| 30 | Over the years the exchange of engines between the 15″ gauge railways in England has become quite a feature of the little railway scene . |