Example sentences of "become [adj] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some historians argue that modern ecology only became possible in the post-Darwinian age in which all natural relationships were seen to be fragile . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now erm was it through this union activity you became interested in the Labour Party ? |
| 9 | Koops then became interested in the long-standing problem of making paper from materials other than linen and cotton . |
| 10 | He became tangled in the red strands of her hair . |
| 11 | REGRESSION therapy became popular in the 1960s and early '70s but was later largely discredited , mainly because it is so open to abuse , writes Victoria Macdonald . |
| 12 | As well as toasting , the " dubbing " of poetry to an instrumental background became popular in the late 1970s to early 1980s . |
| 13 | Although it had been conceived originally as a means of reducing illegal practices during the process of distillation , the ‘ Coffey still ’ had obvious commercial advantages , but his efforts to introduce it in Ireland met with little success , and it was in Scotland that it first became popular in the 1840s . |
| 14 | Birthing pools became popular in the mid 80s . |
| 15 | Were the naturalists who studied adaptation doing real ecology before the modern name for the science was coined — or did something recognizably like modern ecology only come into existence when the term ‘ ecology ’ became popular in the 1890s ? |
| 16 | For this reason there has been a great effort , over the years , to develop synthetic resin glues based , more or less , on the plastics which became popular in the 1930s . |
| 17 | At the same time as our mystics were writing in England , this principle became definitive in the Greek Christian empire of Byzantium . |
| 18 | John Keats called it ‘ negative capability ’ and it is akin to Ernest Hemingway 's ‘ becoming strong in the broken places ’ . |
| 19 | Matsutakes and chanterelles need undisturbed forest , something that is becoming scarce in the much-logged north-west . |
| 20 | This led to Gibson being seconded in 1928 to work with Michels on the properties of gases at high pressures , and to ICI becoming interested in the chemical effects of high pressures , the theme of Gibson 's work on his return to Winnington in 1931 . |
| 21 | And this time , without the distraction of her friends giggling in the background , she actually listened to what was being said , becoming absorbed in the detached examination of her character by a stranger . |
| 22 | They are most likely to occur because of a jerk in the cable causing an overrun , with the rope becoming tangled in the main wheel of the glider . |
| 23 | Within seconds she was shivering , her lightweight clothing no protection against the bitingly chill wind , her hands and feet quickly becoming numb in the icy cold . |
| 24 | But in chemistry , physics and physiology , the laboratory sciences becoming prominent in the nineteenth century , there was little scope for the amateur . |
| 25 | The maiden flight of the A-12 had been scheduled for November 1991 , with a view to the aircraft becoming operational in the mid-1990s . |
| 26 | Preventive health measures which tackle the cause of why people are becoming sick in the first place could save vast sums of public money which are being wasted by the National Health Service treating the symptoms . |
| 27 | The importance of living up to what was required by one 's status and what one had been used to came out over and over again in the discussions of the time , and ‘ prudence ’ became a moral imperative in the process of becoming axiomatic in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 28 | Tony Booth , managing director of British Telecom International , said : ‘ Competition is becoming cut-throat in the transatlantic services . |
| 29 | The councils have ‘ tackled a great variety of jobs : commenting on local plans , clearing up their area , dealing with traffic problems , organising carol services and other social events , protesting about bus routes and becoming involved in the many other neighbourhood activities so typical of residents ' groups and parish pump politics ’ ( Boaden et al . |
| 30 | Thereafter becoming involved in the provincial administration , he served successively as of Rumeli ; of Egypt ; sancak bey of Aydin ; and then in the same capacity in Rhodes , the last of his posts listed in Ata'i . |