Example sentences of "become [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , in the meantime , a military revolt had taken place in the Spanish army , lead by General Franco , and it soon became clear the division of the contending sides were , on the one side , The Nationalists who were strongly supported by Italy , Germany and Portugal , and on The other side , the government forces , supported by Communist Russia , which led to that side being referred to as ‘ Republicans ’ . |
| 2 | However , the growth of the Catholic population was such that it became clear the Diocese of Beverley which comprised the whole of Yorkshire needed to be divided . |
| 3 | In November 1914 at the Annual General Meeting , it became clear the Club had to abort some costly schemes and , although not blaming the war , it must have been the cause . |
| 4 | Soon it became clear the prospecting company was trying to suppress its excitement . |
| 5 | Mr MacAskill commented : ‘ It became clear the vote was a confidence issue in the party convener and I felt it was no longer appropriate that I should remain in his cabinet . ’ |
| 6 | When the Irish victory became clear the audience of several thousand inside the showjumping arena broke into a chorus of ‘ Ole Ole ’ , the anthem that became so popular during Ireland 's progress throughout the 1990 soccer World Cup finals in Italy . |
| 7 | We might imagine a project in which a coordinating team was actually hampered by rules of procedure which became such a straitjacket of red tape that , for example , otherwise admirable proposals might be unacceptable on a technicality . |
| 8 | The consignee needed a document that justified his claim to the goods at the journey 's end and the bill of lading became such a document . |
| 9 | It was not until the early years of the twentieth century that they had devised a formula for their boot polish which was marketed later under the name of ‘ Cherry Blossom Boot Polish ’ which became such a success , being sold at one penny per tin . |
| 10 | It became such a success that further developments were needed . |
| 11 | There were at this point no apparent difficulties experienced between the majority of estate members and no significant source of conflict , that is until the question of a multi-denominational school itself became such a source . |
| 12 | Mr Pilkington was delighted and became such an enthusiast for air travel that he went on to make many more business trips by air , some of them as far afield as Australia . |
| 13 | But over the next months they became convinced the couple had been killed by someone they knew . |
| 14 | For another thing the most profitable processes today simply do not need large amounts of labour and is it seriously expected by the government that as long as we avoid being tied down by the social chapter , we shall become such a reservoir of cheap labour , that we shall become cheaper and more exploitable than the labour force in the Third World ? |
| 15 | Consultation in the creation of policy is essential , but it should not become such an end in itself that decisions become imprisoned in a wheel of endless debate . |
| 16 | ‘ It could be that the horse racing forensic laboratory at Newmarket fears camphor could become such an agent , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Then mah-jong parties became all the rage . |
| 18 | Puzzled head-scratching suddenly became all the rage . |
| 19 | It became redundant a couple of years ago when the Chipmunk glider tug it was providing spares for was replaced by a Piper Pawnee . |
| 20 | It is possible to study electromagnetic theory without ever mentioning the word electron , but since it has become such a household word and is used so often we can just as well make use of it . |
| 21 | On top of the unenthusiastic reviews for his last three movies , there appeared , at the same time , an article by Pauline Kael called ‘ Notes on New Actors , New Movies ’ in The New Yorker , in which she wrote : ‘ Dustin Hoffman has become such a culture hero that one hesitates to point out that he 's more relaxed and likeable on TV talk shows than when he 's acting . |
| 22 | But with ‘ decultured ’ Aborigines it has become such a problem that it has been labelled the Black Death . |
| 23 | We are what we eat has become such a cliché that we rarely stop to think about it nowadays . |
| 24 | Mr. Justice Henry is no respecter of persons , and I hope that the hon. Gentleman has not become such a respecter of persons that he supposes that those two people were dealt with out of any consideration for who or what they were . |
| 25 | In fact it had become such a moneyspinner that the proprietor , Mr Ridout the Restaurateur , had opened a small chain of similar eateries . |
| 26 | It has become such an attraction that local tour operators are beating a path to its door . |
| 27 | Why motherhood should have become such an obsession she could not imagine , but she did understand that whatever was the matter with her was contributing to her misery . |
| 28 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 29 | During my two years of national service I became first a radar mechanic and then an Education Sergeant , leaving in 1948 to start reading History at Brasenose . |
| 30 | With the aid of a small capital thus amassed , he became first a pedlar in Lincolnshire , then a traveller — but it seems to sit on the surface of his story that the motive for his wider travels was not so much the search for gain as the love of travel itself , and the urge to pilgrimage . |