Example sentences of "become [vb pp] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we shall find , they became embroiled in the nationalist struggle . |
| 2 | She was aware that these could be developed by investigative work , but once she became immersed in the new curriculum , struggling on occasions to keep her head above water , she began to lose sight of these objectives , focusing instead on the more familiar content objectives . |
| 3 | It is also worth noting that , as the analysts became immersed in the detailed examination , there was a tendency to forget that this was still part of the systems thinking stage , and that the models , activities and related information needs were those that were desirable in systems terms , and not did not necessarily reflect the real situation . |
| 4 | The child climbed out of the cab and became caught in the unguarded pto of the attached implement . |
| 5 | Bodies crushed and absorbed , Tallis-Holly herself became trapped in the quivering , silent forest that filled the stone place . |
| 6 | In short , they are seriously at risk of committing further offences and becoming trapped in the revolving door of custody . |
| 7 | We have n't gone , in physics , seriously into trying to understand the biological aspects , but then you see biology is becoming dominated in the last ten years by the understanding of basic biochemistry of cells . |
| 8 | It appears to be quite selective as to which fish it invades , some becoming covered in the mutated cells into which the virus has incorporated its own genetic material , others escaping . |
| 9 | The Goths , the Avars , the Lombards , the Huns , the Franks became absorbed in the Romanised populations they dominated . |
| 10 | For instance , given the fact that metals expand when heated , it is possible to derive the fact that continuous railway tracks not interrupted by small gaps will become distorted in the hot sun . |
| 11 | In a moment we are about to leave the leisured and leisurely world of the eighteenth-century gentlemen and hurtle through the mechanical and material world of nineteenth-century England , where the revolutionary ideas of the aristocratic philosophers will become embodied in the social , political and economic structures of industrial Europe . |
| 12 | But if , without derogation of the Divine power , we may conceive the existence of such ministers , and personify them by the term ‘ Nature ’ , we learn from the past history of our globe that she has advanced with slow and stately steps , guided by the archetypical light , amidst the wreck of worlds , from the first embodiment of the Vertebrate idea under its Ichthyic [ fish-like ] vestment , until it became arrayed in the glorious garb of the human form . |
| 13 | Now , one man was examining the steel tubes and struts of the scaffolding , dusting the surfaces with aluminium powder and squinting at the result through a lens ; another was on his knees scrutinising the staging planks in case some fibres from the killer 's clothing had become caught in the rough grain of the wood . |
| 14 | The biographical sources for this period are neither detailed nor accurate enough to allow a close analysis of the degree to which the system had become elaborated in the first half of the sixteenth century , but the broader outlines may certainly be perceived and seem to confirm that something like the provisions of the Kanunname were operating by the early years of that century . |
| 15 | Community policing is a preventive rather than a crime control made of policing and in the United Kingdom it has become associated in the popular image particularly with those inner-city areas where crime rates have risen sharply and where police relations with ethnic minorities have deteriorated , although it is also a response to the police 's loss of contact with other sections of the community , especially young people ( Schaffer 1980 ) . |
| 16 | It had become associated in the popular imagination with something naive , laughable or downright kinky . |
| 17 | Nicknamed the Dottore sottile ( " subtle doctor " ) , he had become reconciled in the 1980s with Craxi , whom he had previously criticized for what he regarded as his autocratic attitudes . |
| 18 | It showed how firmly union officials had become embedded in the governing structure and how reluctant Labour politicians were to jeopardize the chances of gaining office . |
| 19 | The major civilisations of the Americas , notably the Olmecs and Mayas which thrived between 3 kyr and 1 kyr , dominated the lowland regions adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico but by c. 600 AD ( The Times , The World , 1986 ) the major centres of early American peoples had become established in the high Andean basins . |
| 20 | Third term Thatcherism became grounded in the imaginary place that was called the inner city . |
| 21 | In his lifetime an obscure figure ( he was ignored by contemporary obituarists ) , he became known in the twentieth century through the publication of his Diaries , journals of horseback tours through England and Wales . |
| 22 | The malting business became concentrated in the south-eastern and eastern counties of England because that is where most of the country 's barley was grown , and ‘ maltings ’ , familiar by their long rows of windows and kilns with cowled tops , are most common in Essex , Suffolk and the eastern fringe of Hertfordshire . |
| 23 | For a brief period in the province 's history , its affairs became entwined in the broader struggles for the monarchy . |
| 24 | Many dolphins drown as the net is pulled and tightened towards the side of the seiner , and they become trapped in the closing mesh . |
| 25 | The pre-communist Nizan and the postcommunist Sartre have , in other words , become fused in the public imagination as an example of the impossibility of the communist intellectual , the communist writer , the communist novelist . |
| 26 | These dominant ideas become reflected in the concrete features of the social structure , giving them legitimacy and reproducing them . |
| 27 | Merger can be applied for when the freehold and leasehold estates become vested in the same person , whether or not both titles are registered . |
| 28 | For one thing , the negative associations of blackness with impurity , evil , misery and dirt had already become established in the English language , partly through the colour symbolism of Christian doctrine ( James , 1981 ; Dabydeen , 1985a ) . |
| 29 | The hospice issue became entangled in the wider question of Jewish settlement in late April when Shamir was accused of taking advantage of the political stalemate by authorizing new settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip . |
| 30 | It was this message which went out in the eighteenth century , and became enshrined in the First Amendment to the American Constitution . |