Example sentences of "become [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to overcome the problems of a mechanism becoming inadvertently disassembled by component changes , the development of an automated associative procedure was considered . |
| 2 | In the miners ' dispute Lord Wilberforce became deeply enmeshed in job evaluation , the social and physical conditions in the pits and , above all , the need to produce a settlement under which the miners would go back to work . |
| 3 | Suddenly at this culmination point in the healing rite , the whole assembly became unaccountably convulsed with mirth , and the puzzled anthropologist , note-book at the ready , pushed her way forward to the front of the crowd . |
| 4 | Baudrillard goes even further than this by suggesting that the whole of contemporary life is dedicated to consumption and communication in a way which has become wholly disconnected from meaning and content . |
| 5 | We have become so habituated to market relations that it can seem merely banal to observe that types of work which make a loss will , within market production , be reduced or discontinued , while types which make a profit will be expanded . |
| 6 | The prejudices had built up over centuries but had become more accentuated since independence in 1948 . |
| 7 | Staff in such hospitals have become increasingly demoralized by criticism and standards have easily declined as a result . |