Example sentences of "have become [adj] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently , however , she has become involved in documentary photography which reveals all the anomalies and distortions of the once sick and self-destructive society . |
| 2 | It is his second interpretation , deriving substantially from Nietzsche , that has become dominant in deconstruction as popularly understood , where all meaning is turned into ‘ play ’ . |
| 3 | Also basing his work on media language , written as well as spoken , Bell ( 1985 ) studies in real time the spread of a process of determiner deletion in noun phrases which has become common in news reports , as demonstrated in 35 as opposed to 36 : |
| 4 | Many activists in Paisley 's Protestant Unionist Party insist that they would never have become involved in politics if there had remained one reliable traditional unionist party . |
| 5 | But because it already occupied the existing space for electoral politics , the layer of educated and professional younger community leaders who might have become involved in politics was atomised . |
| 6 | The member who brought this matter to our notice stated that had he known about this in one particular case , a capital gains tax assessment due by a client would not have become payable in consequence of the option available to pay at one-half the taxpayer 's rate of income tax . |
| 7 | After a year , he escaped and helped by having become fluent in French during his captivity , he was at liberty for 3 months before he was recaptured . |
| 8 | Having become interested in aviation as a teenager , he worked his way up from the workshop floor and designed his first glider in 1924 while still only eighteen , following this with his first powered aircraft , the VVA–3 , two years later . |
| 9 | From the early days he seems to have become involved in trade-union activities , and for his part in the Manchester strike of 1818 he was sent to prison for two years in 1819 . |
| 10 | On 20 April 1964 Lonsdale was exchanged for a British businessman , Greville Wynne , who had become involved in espionage and been imprisoned in Russia . |
| 11 | By that decade different religious and social elements had become prominent in antislavery from those who had taken the initiative in earlier years . |
| 12 | Some of the less educated women in Askham 's ( 1975 ) Aberdeen study had given up the pill as a result of such articles in popular newspapers and had become pregnant in consequence . |
| 13 | There was clearly some basis here for irredentist disputes of a kind that had become familiar in interwar Europe . |
| 14 | The founder was a man who had become interested in aviation during the thirties , spent the war in the South African Air Force and , on returning to civilian life , foresaw the opportunities that could be won with cheaply acquired and converted military aircraft . |
| 15 | That I did n't tell Richard , was partly for Sophie 's sake — to say she had become interested in politics would have been stretching his credulity too far — but also for my own . |
| 16 | These were James Geikie , the younger brother of Archibald , and John Young who held a medical degree but had become interested in geology . |
| 17 | In the fast-moving consumer goods field , manufacturers have become increasingly involved in controlling the distribution of their products and have become involved in merchandising activities to support their ‘ pull ’ marketing strategies . |
| 18 | Since then , the Government has created the local enterprise companies , many of which have become involved in internationalisation programmes . |
| 19 | Families have become involved in income generating schemes and children have better access to education and in all these areas the villagers , particularly women , work closely with staff to play an active part in the development of their own community and the securing of their children 's future . |
| 20 | It became , ‘ how can it possibly have come about in so short a period of time that so many women have become involved in politics ? ’ |
| 21 | His most recent work finds him distinguishing between two separate ‘ fractions ’ of the dislocated working class who have become involved in soccer violence as a result of the peculiar material circumstances affecting their daily lives . |
| 22 | ‘ I have become interested in astronomy , so I want to buy a telescope . |