Example sentences of "become [vb pp] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the town of Newton Stewart , not too far from Annan , a solicitor , Giles Davies , lost £1.8 million from his clients ' accounts because he became embroiled in a similar deal . |
| 2 | Berger also recalled last year 's Mexico Grand Prix , in which he and Nigel Mansell became embroiled in a tremendous battle during the closing stages of the race . |
| 3 | Although designed as a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the party 's foundation , the conference immediately became embroiled in a bitter struggle over the election of the ALP president , a largely ceremonial position . |
| 4 | Here he was a barrow boy who became embroiled in a pitched battle with children in Wilcox Road market , South Lambeth . |
| 5 | Zambia became caught in a vicious circle because the mining industry is also heavily dependent on increasingly expensive imports , so that over time , output , investment and productivity fell . |
| 6 | As thousands of troops and vehicles , many loaded with looted goods , struggled north on the main road to Basra , they became caught in a congested and disorganized column many kilometres in length , and were subjected to hours of ruthless attack from the air with cluster bombs and , possibly , incendiary weapons . |
| 7 | Continuity was assured by the performance becoming enshrined in a religious ritual which could never be broken for fear of offending the gods . |
| 8 | If all scientists were and remained normal scientists then a particular science would become trapped in a single paradigm and would never progress beyond it . |
| 9 | Second , the arguments have become embroiled in a general deterioration in central-local government relations . |
| 10 | Businessmen in the North-East hope the latest campaign will stem the rising tide of youngsters who have become trapped in a sordid world of solvent abuse . |
| 11 | Father and son had become locked in a verbal jousting match which had ended with Tristram stamping out of the house and staying out all night . |
| 12 | The Victorian middle class seems to have become entangled in a good deal of bad faith of this kind by its attempts to imitate an aristocratic life which it did not fully understand . |
| 13 | The vegetation is determined by the climate and the nature of the soil , but also by time and chance ; for example , by what seeds happen to have become established in a particular place in the extreme past . |
| 14 | Then they become enmeshed in a desperate struggle about who is to be the baby . |
| 15 | The gravest problems , however , were in Greece where British troops had restored a Royalist government in 1944 and become embroiled in a civil war with a Communist guerrilla movement . |
| 16 | Become embroiled in a seamy sex scandal . |
| 17 | ‘ Secondly , Philip hopes Edward will lay claim to Scotland and so become immersed in a tangled and lengthy war . ’ |
| 18 | One complication of non-specific urethritis leads to ankylosing spondylitis , a disorder whereby the vertebrae of the spine become fused in a fixed , rigid bamboo-like structure . |
| 19 | As the price of computers decreases and as they become incorporated in a wide range of domestic goods , from cookers to calculators , the ordinary consumer is becoming a major purchaser of electronic gadgetry . |
| 20 | Creator and created become locked in a life-and-death relationship . ’ |
| 21 | There are also major problems with compaction and the abandoned ranches become covered in a stunted tangle of indigenous pioneers and exotics . |
| 22 | Recently , these in vitro observations have been substantiated by results from early animal and human clinical tests , and phosphorylcholine technology has now become established in a wide range of medical services . |
| 23 | Miss Paula McCloskey , 26 , also injured her other leg when she became entangled in a mincing machine at the M U P factory in Richill , Co Armagh , in June , 1990 , the High Court in Belfast was told yesterday . |
| 24 | I became engaged in a violent battle , first on behalf of the profession and subsequently as a mediator , when Mrs Barbara Castle — then the Secretary of State for Health and Social Security — pursued an honourable , but in my view misguided , determination to eradicate private practice from this country . |
| 25 | The Dimbleby newspapers had been printed by an associated company , Dimbleby Printers Ltd , which became engaged in a closed shop dispute with the National Graphical Association . |
| 26 | Suddenly the playwright becomes trapped in a living nightmare , with the man next door , really not so ordinary , providing the action . |
| 27 | That would we feel is certainly in a coordinating way and if somebody for instance er say you 've got a husband and wife living together , one of them suddenly becomes handicapped in a particular way , what we are planning to do is trying to develop programmes which will enable the carer to have to go on training at the County Council 's expense to enable them to look after somebody in their own homes and it 's a type of thing we want to develop . |
| 28 | I am not attacking the intellectual and musical meritocracy of Oxford and Cambridge for I do not wish to become embroiled in a political argument . |
| 29 | With this limited view of ‘ overseas operations ’ there was little or no need to become trapped in a semantic jungle . |
| 30 | They were about to become locked in a bitter legal battle for the future of the child they both loved . |