Example sentences of "to have become a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Eliot had recounted in 1916 how in the excitement of the Australian aboriginal corroboree ‘ with every stimulant of noise , torchlight , strange masks , and drink , the savage seems to himself to have become a new being ’ . |
2 | The varied conditions over the week , biasing towards the lighter end , had given the sailors a good range without the Swedish walkover which seems to have become a regular feature of late . |
3 | The Hilary of once upon a time would have done it and taken great pleasure in confronting him , but the Hilary of now seemed to have become a spineless coward . |
4 | Alexander seemed to have become a decisive proponent of reform . |
5 | This seemed to him , and to me , to have become a great issue of conscience . |
6 | Bail conditions appear also to have become a standard practice in public order cases . |
7 | Although the king from time to time forbade ‘ puture ’ — the contributions in money and in kind exacted by the foresters — the levying of puture seems to have become a general practice at least by the fourteenth century . |
8 | It 's really about time we tackled Manuela , who seems to have become a recurring reference point in this story . |
9 | Industry seems to have become a driving force of strident activity , against which background human beings , the miners , are " like shadows " . |
10 | Her lips parted to tell him that it did , but hesitation seemed to have become a periodic tendency , afflicting her like hiccoughs . |
11 | This seemed to have become a permanent condition . |
12 | To the new generation of Romantics he appeared to have become a fossilized appendage of a backward-looking Establishment , which was already , in 1815 , in the process of restoring the eighteenth-century dynasties to the thrones of Europe , so that the French Revolution might never have taken place . |
13 | It occurs to me that the St-Germain-des Pres scene was the first bohemia to have become an immediate media success . |
14 | More extensive use of video film and exemplary sentencing may discourage the ultra-violent minority , but the assembling of large mobs of chanting and charging youngsters at the ‘ ends ’ seems to have become an established part of youth culture . |
15 | Attempted suicide appears to have become an acceptable way of expressing distress among some people , and has therefore been likened to a fashion . |
16 | There were only a handful of other people in the library reference section ; the normal air of peace and quiet one would expect in such a place seemed to have become an unnatural silence . |
17 | Japan seems again to have become an honorary Westerner . |
18 | War seemed to have become an unusable tool of statecraft . |