Example sentences of "and [adv] become a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd rather take that approach , and what I would suggest is that , wherever possible , teachers should think about involving parents in the kinds of difficulties that the child is having in school , and thereby becomes a team effort rather than parents working one direction and perhaps teachers working in another .
2 In ancient times this magnificent monument must have been much admired and it is hardly surprising that Imhotep was remembered as a great man and eventually became a god .
3 He began by building up the scout movement in the NorthEast and eventually became a scout commissioner .
4 The leather baggage and glass cosmetic pots of the day were too heavy to take on the plane but she managed to find lighter substitutes and so became a pioneer of lightweight luggage , as well as a pioneer female passenger .
5 Had ICI focused earlier on shareholder value creation , he said , it would not have allowed a value gap to develop and so become a target for Hanson 's predatory schemes .
6 The dominant Labour Party included large sections of industrial South Wales which was openly hostile , fearing that devolution would separate Wales from the economic and social structure of England and perhaps become a paradise for linguistic nationalists .
7 He could throw his lot in with the Lord General , and perhaps become a governor of one of the colony worlds .
8 Yet Louth-born Wilkinson was a midfield player as a schoolboy and only became a forward by accident .
9 But then again , the Golden Höfner was the flagship of the company 's electric hollow-bodied range between ‘ 59 and ‘ 62 and naturally became a platform for showing just what could be done .
10 What would be more difficult would be for each group to resist both poles of power ( management and union ) and not become a caucus or adjunct of either .
11 This attractive black-white mammal widely liked by people and already become a symbol of conservation efforts …
12 Chaucer 's Reeve , for Olson , is revealed as a judge who will not temper strict retributive justice with mercy , and thus becomes a character who is liable to strict justice himself .
13 The opening thrust of ‘ The Headmaster Ritual ’ brought immediate impact and soon became a favourite with all who had bad experiences at school ( which is everyone ) .
14 Under William and his son — and successor — Joseph Dalton Hooker ( 1817–1911 ) , Kew began to acquire facilities for studying exotic plants and soon became a centre of international importance .
15 In 1848 he became MRCS ( and soon became a fellow ‘ by examination ’ ) and in the following year was awarded the college 's triennial prize for an essay on the nerves of the eye .
16 Greece applied for membership in 1975 and finally became a Member State on 1 January 1981 .
17 Third World governments need to help the submerged economy emerge and gradually become a part of the official one .
18 He was one of the first eminent European scientists to make a career in the USA , and rapidly became a lion : his lectures and books were popular , and he built up a school and museum at Harvard .
19 Arthur Ramsey gave Michael a book by a scientist ( Romanes ) who was once an atheist and later became a believer .
20 The Lombard king was exiled to Neustria , and later became a monk in the Abbey of Corbey where he died in his old age .
21 She became chairman of the orchestra and later became a member and chairman of the Keswick Music Society .
22 And one of the most experienced U-boat commanders , Adalbert Schnee , who had been on sixteen patrols and later became a member of Dönitz 's staff , gave evidence that it was contrary to orders to kill survivors and that there could be no excuse for what Eck had done .
23 He entered Chichester Theological College and later became a curate in Lincolnshire .
24 He had been Head of Geography from 1919 until his retirement in 1953 , and later became a Governor , representing the staff of the School .
25 To cut a long story short , the church was granted special provision to use the building twelve months before it became generally available ; I was elected to the executive and later became a trustee of the community centre .
26 A motor vehicle which is being towed by another motor vehicle both remains a motor vehicle and also becomes a trailer .
27 In this year , he was appointed President of the English Circle of Books Across the Sea , and also became a member of the Apollo Society which was dedicated to reviving " the neglected art of reading poetry and to show that poetry and music can be regarded as complementary " .
28 He had sailed before the mast in a windjammer , and then become a stoker .
29 This delightful timber-framed listed building was once the medieval home of six priests , and then became a rectory , which it remained until 1840 .
30 The bone which in lizards conducts sound from the ear-drum to the inner ear originated as the hind border of a gill slit in a fish , and then became a strut bracing the jaw articulation to the skull , before it acquired its present function .
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