Example sentences of "and become [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held the job for five years and became heavily involved in building Esso 's Milford Haven refinery and the new Irish refinery . |
| 2 | However , this view arises because a klima-genetische geomorphologie was proposed by Büdel ( 1963 ) and became widely available in the English reading literature in 1965 ( Holzner and Weaver , 1965 ) . |
| 3 | I would read every book I could find about it and became reasonably well-informed about the subject . |
| 4 | As the programme expanded , the courses lost their specificity of content and audience and became largely indistinguishable from the rest of the Authority 's central INSET programme for primary schools . |
| 5 | Gradually the macaques changed their eating habits and became largely dependent on potatoes , a food previously unknown to them , as their staple diet . |
| 6 | So , ’ he added with a slightly twisted smile , ‘ I just concentrated on business , and became even more of a workaholic than ever ! ’ |
| 7 | Their suspicions and anxieties were further fuelled when both Laud and the Archbishop of York , Richard Neile , were appointed to Charles 's privy council , and became intimately involved in the king 's plans to achieve a more ordered secular , as well as ecclesiastical commonwealth . |
| 8 | It was a horrible practice , and became most common in the reign of Henry VII , and especially in the eastern counties . |
| 9 | Sir Godfrey Webster , the fifth baronet , was elected as a Tory member for the county in 1812 ; almost immediately he voted against the government whose friends had put him in and became increasingly radical in his demands for electoral reform and the abolition of political sinecures for the supporters of ministers . |
| 10 | Despite this , the independent unions continued to call for strikes and became increasingly involved in political protest . |
| 11 | I quickly settled in and became increasingly involved in the life of the home . |
| 12 | It assumed that initiative for the formulation and introduction of measures of national policy and became increasingly reluctant to be over-ruled by the House . |
| 13 | The queen always forgave his disrespectful behaviour , and became increasingly dependent upon him . |
| 14 | While Dace said that recession continued in the UK and became more visible in continental Europe , exchange rate movements meant that revenues were maintained in all sectors of Riva 's business . |
| 15 | This jealousy between a corps d'elite and those who are not able or willing to come under its patronage is understandable , and became more understandable to me when I reached Hyderabad and found that the Institute was a self-contained and sequestered community , and that its comparatively luxurious campus bore a faint resemblance to a military camp , with living quarters graded according to the status of their occupants . |
| 16 | Rhee intensified his pressure in the early months of 1947 and became more outspoken in criticising the military government . |
| 17 | When Edward saw that I was willing to work , and that the ground covered in a day could be almost doubled with my help , he relaxed and became more open with me . |
| 18 | It seems the whole of Japan saw the one-hour programme and became more aware of the Wedgwood Group and its products . |
| 19 | Over and over she asked the questions and became so demented by them that , though she trembled with indignation , she once more went into the Casa Guidi and , controlling herself as best she could , asked to see her old mistress . |
| 20 | He began to reread his account of the pilgrimage , and became suddenly impatient of its posturing , self-dramatizing artificiality . |
| 21 | She stared at him , noting the dark patches darkening his shirt , and became uncomfortably aware of the trickle of sweat running down her own back . |
| 22 | In the Boos it was revived and became very powerful on the temporal side . |
| 23 | ‘ It was laid on London clay which dried out in summer and became very muddy in winter , ’ Claudia explained . |
| 24 | They played turn the trencher and Blind Man 's Buff and forfeits , during the course of which Robert was required to kiss Alexandra and became entirely incoherent with rapture . |
| 25 | During her second year , she met a first-year medical student , and became quite involved with him . |
| 26 | Ana had been full of her day , saying how Mitch had described England to her , explaining so openly how they had spent their time that Felipe relaxed and became quite gracious to Mitch . |
| 27 | The Northern state became wholly dominated by protestant loyalists and became extremely coercive in its dealings with the substantial catholic — nationalist remnant within its borders . |
| 28 | ‘ People found out about it and became extremely unpleasant towards them , calling them names in the street . ’ |
| 29 | In 1900 , the Power House was built and became fully operational in 1901 . |
| 30 | The first Lome Convention was signed in February 1975 and came into effect in April 1976 ( see pp. 27050 ; 28047-48 ) ; its successor , Lome II , was signed in October 1979 and came into effect in January 1981 ( see pp. 30700-02 ) ; and Lome III was signed in December 1984 and became fully operational in February 1985 ( see pp. 33485-87 ) . |