Example sentences of "become [adj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A twenty-one-year-old mother living alone with her child on a Sunderland estate became pregnant the first she " had sexual intercourse " . |
| 2 | Level 3 Know that some life forms became extinct a long time ago and others more recently . |
| 3 | After the early victories in Bath and Cheltenham , the faces of party supporters gathered at the Liberal Club in Mr Ashdown 's Yeovil constituency grew progressively longer as it became clear the predicted breakthrough was not going to happen . |
| 4 | After the early victories in Bath and Cheltenham , the faces of party supporters gathered at the Liberal Club in Mr Ashdown 's Yeovil constituency grew progressively longer as it became clear the predicted breakthrough was not going to happen . |
| 5 | The very fact that multimedia is becoming such an intense area of activity today suggests that , at least in the view of hardware and software developers , the technological capability has arrived . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a sad thing to see someone who had an important job in the navy becoming such an irresponsible old soak . ’ |
| 7 | With competition becoming intense the first set of Motor Racing rules were drawn up for the Paris-Amsterdam-Paris race of 1898 . |
| 8 | ‘ We became such a strong unit and the experience was very binding . |
| 9 | It became such a tame pet afterwards that she could never persuade it to play dead again , even if she grabbed it as though she were a predator . |
| 10 | The fact that the selection of a style became such a contentious issue can be attributed to his sustained advocacy of Gothic . |
| 11 | It was for this reason that Léon Cohn-Casson became such a fervent advocate of a secular morality . |
| 12 | Centre-forward Tom White was Manager Bert Head 's primary target at Pittodrie , but he brought John McCormick back with him as well from the Granite City for a mere £1,500 — and it was the craggy defender who became such a staunch and resolute pillar of Palace rearguards and helped guide the club through to 1st Division security . |
| 13 | This packaging of living material into discrete vehicles became such a salient and dominant feature that , when biologists arrived on the scene and started asking questions about life , their questions were mostly about vehicles — individual organisms . |
| 14 | Support can be seen in the upsurge of working-class activity that accompanied the strikes of 1978 and 1979 and the way that the union 's leader , Lula , became such a popular figure . |
| 15 | Peter 's Bar may be the reason why Horta became such a popular stopping off spot for transatlantic yachts , and because so many yachts stop there the authorities have built a large marina with every facility . |
| 16 | The Capellans , indulgent as ever , had trusted them in ours until it became obvious the same hideous trick was about to be played again . |
| 17 | Nor did I know that , in the normal human body , up to 100,000 cells can become cancerous every single day . |
| 18 | ‘ Who could have imagined doll 's house collecting would become such a popular hobby ? ’ she says . |
| 19 | You may find that you often have to do this , as even a modest wedding bouquet can be too large to fit into a reasonably-sized picture frame , and if it were reproduced in its original size it could become such a large picture that it would completely dominate any room in which it was hung . |
| 20 | All right , nine was a little young for her first sexual encounter , but now she 's come to like it she 's become such a friendly child . |
| 21 | Parents ' evenings/interviews have become such a strong tradition in primary schools that their purpose , content and structure are rarely challenged . |
| 22 | Now that young Eve had become such a regular guest in the household , a fourth chair had been found , a cane chair rescued from one of the sheds . |
| 23 | This is one reason why the crackling sound of the geiger counter has become such a potent symbol of the dangers . |
| 24 | It is arguable that law has become such a potent anti-nuclear symbol because the use and aftermath of nuclear weapons pose such a threat to these values . |
| 25 | ‘ They turned Reading round after that debacle in '88 , and at the time I was very surprised that Vince did n't accept the new contract because it 's become such a prestigious event . |
| 26 | Painting cars has become such a complex process that it can account or up to one-fifth of the manufacturing cost of a car . |
| 27 | Ashe , now 49 , grew up in the segregated American South of the 1950's , making it wholly appropriate that he should have become such a dedicated campaigner for equal rights all round the world . |
| 28 | A typical letter in the correspondence columns of The Daily Mail in 1977 summed up the commonplace fears and aspirations which are arranged around this slogan : This kind of commonsense reasoning , invariably linked to the perceived upsurge in crime and mischief , has become such a day-to-day feature of life in contemporary Britain that one hears complaints phrased in the idiom of ‘ Twenty Years Ago ’ amidst the gossip of bus queues , pubs and launderettes . |
| 29 | Although , as we have seen , in 1828 Veitch was dismissed from his consulship for having addressed Napoleon as ‘ Your Majesty ’ instead of plain ‘ General ’ when he met the vanquished Emperor en route for St Helena , he had become such a popular figure in Madeira that , after representations from the island , he was reinstated by Lord Palmerston in 1831 . |
| 30 | And it had become such a popular feature of Samana life . |