Example sentences of "become [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is improving generally and his memory and concentration became normal during the 0/2 dosage . |
| 2 | In their longitudinal study , they were surprised how many of the women who had been considered to have a supportive marital relationship when first interviewed became depressed after a later crisis . |
| 3 | Eventually he became depressed by the sheer difficulty of his subject , by the realization that he was not , as he put it , going to be able to build a cathedral . |
| 4 | Believe it or not , the society has now been in existence for a year and subscriptions became due on the 16th of March . |
| 5 | But , in the summerhouse , she became dissatisfied with the slow growth of clay . |
| 6 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 7 | Real power remained in the hands of the union delegations but it now became possible for the local parties to ensure that their opinions were more effectively voiced . |
| 8 | Paleontology had always had a geographical dimension , and this was exploited more thoroughly as the exploration of the fossil record became possible on a world-wide scale . |
| 9 | Some historians argue that modern ecology only became possible in the post-Darwinian age in which all natural relationships were seen to be fragile . |
| 10 | Consequently , it was necessary to introduce more daylight into the broader interiors and this became possible in the 1890s with the use of reinforced-concrete floors and steel girders . |
| 11 | Now it was replaced by an administrative , legal , and organizational unity , which first became possible in the twelfth century as a result of the development of the administrative , legal and scholastic instruments of government . |
| 12 | Devlin and O'Cathain found that of 122 children consecutively referred , 22 became dry after a structured interview ( with the child alone as well as with a parent ) , advice on personal hygiene and cleanliness training , daily bladder exercises , and provision of a ‘ star chart . ’ |
| 13 | With twelve children to her credit , she became pregnant for the thirteenth time by a British soldier . |
| 14 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 15 | At the age of 17 , she became pregnant to an older man who immediately deserted her . |
| 16 | Alter Judy became pregnant in the lower sixth at school , she left and found herself a tutor for her A-level English , and also attended maths classes at the local college . |
| 17 | There were few opportunities for attending concerts but passers-by became used to the familiar sound of Mozart 's " Jupiter " symphony or Handel 's water music floating from Eva 's house in the lunchtime break . |
| 18 | It had Breton blood but , like the Breton , was heavily crossed with the Friesian and became extinct by the 1960s . |
| 19 | Yet in Ireland the Kerry almost became extinct by the early 1980s , and in 1983 the total world population of pedigree cows was only 200 . |
| 20 | Wood Walton 's ‘ speciality ’ , it became extinct in the nineteenth century , but was reintroduced from Holland in 1927 and can be seen on the wing in July . |
| 21 | Bears became extinct in the Austrian Alps over a hundred years , but in the 1970s a male bear from Yugoslavia wandered across the border to take up residence in the southeast province of Styria . |
| 22 | Anxiety on this score became acute during the last decades of the fourth century , and the first of the fifth . |
| 23 | He became friendly at the Royal College with Ted Dicks who , owing to his liveliness and ability to play the piano ( he took over at the Colony Room when Mike Mackenzie left ) soon found himself in charge of student entertainments . |
| 24 | Across the road at Tullivers , Phyllida Prior and Jeremy soon became friendly with the older residents of Thrush Green . |
| 25 | Feeling themselves isolated from Ramsay MacDonald , who had been helped into Labour leadership by the " Clydesiders " , the ILP became receptive to the radical socialism of the Scottish MPs . |
| 26 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 27 | NASA and the then Science Research Council , in the UK soon became interested in the prospective infrared mission , and in October 1977 the three countries signed contracts formalising the collaboration . |
| 28 | Now erm was it through this union activity you became interested in the Labour Party ? |
| 29 | Koops then became interested in the long-standing problem of making paper from materials other than linen and cotton . |
| 30 | He became tangled in the red strands of her hair . |