Example sentences of "become [vb pp] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glass had his first contact with non-Western music in Morocco where he became fascinated by the geometric repetitions of Islamic art . |
| 2 | A working group which was debating ways of running a common staff , increasingly became dominated by the apparent overmanning of both papers . |
| 3 | Murtach shot his father a warning glance , but the big man merely shrugged , his deep eyes becoming shrouded by the overhanging brows . |
| 4 | A cry escaped her as her face became scratched by the sharp ends of broken fern fronds , and the next instant she felt Silas lifting her from the damp ground . |
| 5 | Even though Matthew 's use of this text is invalid , there is no doubt that the verse became accepted by the Christian Church as evidence for the miraculous birth of Jesus . |
| 6 | Rather , the fact that it made any headway at all bears witness to the degree to which wide sections of the British public became alarmed by the apparent drift of Chamberlain 's foreign policy . |
| 7 | Whether their sites shifted or not , everywhere towns became transformed by the great churches and the smaller shrines built both near their centres and in their suburbs in the fourth and fifth centuries . |
| 8 | In a few years , the sward may become dominated by the coarse tussock-forming grass , Brachypodium pinnatum , and eventually the vegetation turns into some form of scrub and possibly woodland . |
| 9 | [ … ] However the problem with regulation , as US experience testifies , is that the regulatory agency can become captured by the political interests of the industry it is regulating and fail to act as the guardian of consumers ' interests . |
| 10 | The modern world has become dominated by the rational and technical society where specialisation in work is no longer related to traditional skills or crafts ( based in the home ) but to the economic and functional necessity of the marketplace . |
| 11 | In an age which has become dominated by the Gross National Product and the Dow — Jones Index , the level of interest rates and the state of the pound , the money supply and the Public Sector Deficit , and at a more mundane level , the Sunday colour supplements offering a world of gourmet food and package holidays in the sun , it is a warning which is easily muffled by our culture . |
| 12 | Nature conservationists and farmers ( who both understand what does happen to abandoned land ) should know better , but in the past few years , seem to have become possessed by the same fear of some dark , prolific genie escaping from the bottle . |
| 13 | In the same way that alternative therapies such as acupuncture have become accepted by the medical profession , the day might come when , to treat your flu , your doctor prescribes a piece of topaz instead of tablets . |
| 14 | In the house he now wined and dined in a style that not even Grandfather Funnell had ever done , but all paid for by Grandfather Funnell 's wife , who seemed to have become rejuvenated by the smart , young , fast-talking Mr Jones . |
| 15 | The wound had become infected by the constant rubbing of a heavy load . |
| 16 | Still staring at him , she became distracted by the dark hair that curled damply across his forehead , at the almost delicate arch of his eyebrows , the aquiline nose , the beautiful mouth , and then back to the bright , amused mockery in his blue , blue eyes . |
| 17 | In this deformation all quantities dX become increased by the same factor — -1 ) . |
| 18 | In his most recent book , The Essene Odyssey , he describes how , after reading our book in 1982 , he became intrigued by the mysterious principle allegedly worshipped by the Knights Templar under the name of ‘ Baphomet ’ . |
| 19 | Amidst the unhilarious mayhem , a bespectacled and wide-eyed Dustin managed to time a few gags well , but became swamped by the strained and desperate elements of the ridiculous plot . |
| 20 | Though their work on evolutionary theory was complementary , Wallace has tended to become overshadowed by the religious and scientific furore that accompanied the publication of Darwin 's The Origin of Species . |