Example sentences of "have become [adj] [coord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reading , or even keeping books in your home has become illegal and firemen must investigate all complaints , find the offenders and destroy their books , after which they will be dealt with appropriately . |
| 2 | Perhaps the best one can do is to say that communication from the letter detector to the word detector level , which is normally both fast and parallel , has become slow and serial , but this is a rather ad hoc explanation , and certainly much less satisfying than the interpretations offered by the model for surface dyslexia and phonological dyslexia . |
| 3 | Murder , often accompanied by rape , has become commonplace and women fear to walk the streets of our cities alone . |
| 4 | I find it quite disheartening because every day I meet people who 've become infected and people who are still taking risks so I find that quite worrying . |
| 5 | Cesar Lendoiro , the 47-year-old director of one of the town 's largest schools , was elected as club president on the strength of his success with — believe it or not — the school 's roller hockey team , which under his direction had become European and world champions . |
| 6 | More amenable land had become available and J.H. Taylor was commissioned to design the course still largely extant . |
| 7 | Owen was an older contemporary of Forbes and Darwin , but lived far longer than either of them ( 1804–92 ) ; it is often a good idea to outlive one 's opponents , but Owen 's bête noire was Huxley ( who outlived him ) , and by 1892 the world had become Darwinian and Owen seemed like a living fossil . |
| 8 | Athelstan noticed how her cheeks had become flushed and Sir Richard moved restlessly . |
| 9 | He had abandoned the priesthood and his religious faith and had become uncaring and Godless . |
| 10 | At first she had let him wash their three-month-old child but Fred 's face had become red and perspiration stood out on his forehead as he held the mite as though she were made of china . |
| 11 | But universities have changed immensely in recent decades , and because of their close , complex and sometimes difficult relations with the public world , their procedures have become standardized and uniform , reflecting concern about justification and accountability . |
| 12 | The moribund commercial property market has hit Pickerings hard , as office schemes have become scarce and orders for wall-climbing , glass-fronted apartment-sized lifts are a natural victim of the slump in that market . |