Example sentences of "become [adj] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After initially welcoming this movement , Plekhanov , Lenin and other ‘ orthodox ’ Social Democrats became afraid that concentration on immediate economic goals might lead the emergent labour movement to become preoccupied with merely economic rather than political goals . |
| 2 | In the early 1970s the cynical and exploitative role of multinational companies appeared to be confirmed as it became clear that Shell and BP , the latter half-owned by the British government , were the principal source of oil supplies to the outlawed Smith regime of Rhodesia . |
| 3 | He remained with Champneys until 1880 , but it soon became clear that architecture would never be his chief preoccupation . |
| 4 | The Guildford Four were freed in 1990 after it became clear that evidence used against them had been fabricated by the police . |
| 5 | The radiocarbon discrepancy was confirmed and it became clear that radiocarbon results would need to be calibrated to convert them to calendar ages . |
| 6 | In January 1990 it became clear that donor countries were by threatening to cut the size of their aid programmes , placing pressure on the Sri Lankan government for an improvement in the country 's human rights record . |
| 7 | It became clear that travelling was important to Morris and so much an inspiration that if he ever felt bored at home or lacking in inspiration he just packed a suitcase and got on the nearest train to visit someone . |
| 8 | It became clear that travelling was important to Morris and so much an inspiration that if he ever felt bored at home or lacking in inspiration he just packed a suitcase and got on the nearest train to visit someone . |
| 9 | It soon became clear that breach of confidence was actionable per se , and did not require a contractual relationship between the parties . |
| 10 | During the 1970s it became clear that adult education was mainly serving the needs of well educated and socially advantaged members of our society . |
| 11 | In the following year it became clear that fascism was not confined to Germany and Italy but was a development common to all European countries . |
| 12 | From these sorts of consideration it became clear that light is made up of lots of particles . |
| 13 | It is becoming clear that taxation in the 1990s could be used as a major tool to promote a more efficient allocation of resources in society , forcing consumers to take account of the long-term implications of their actions . |
| 14 | It is also becoming clear that case management is often effected by the service context , so that , like other service components , it may work less well in poorly resourced areas , and better when it is an integral part of a well resourced network of services . |
| 15 | Mr Coulter said : ‘ It is becoming clear that building societies are pursuing their own interests by rescheduling loans or entering into shared ownership agreements , rather than biting the bullet of low interest loans to housing associations . ’ |
| 16 | Although the concept of tumour cells producing degradative enzymes is appealing , particularly in the light of Liotta 's three step theory of invasion , it is now becoming clear that production and regulation of metalloproteinases in health is a delicate host derived balance . |
| 17 | On the other hand , it is becoming apparent that air attacks alone are not likely to win the war . |
| 18 | In 1923 he began to study economic theory and became convinced that government objectives , far from ensuring a return to prosperity , were actively discouraging it through deflationary policies and obsession with the return to the gold standard at pre-war parity . |
| 19 | Sadly she deceived herself : as the sanitary authorities became convinced that cholera was water-borne and could be checked by means more immediately effective than prayer , public attention became focussed more on the sanitary inspector than on the parson . |
| 20 | It became obvious that pushy-aggression had to be replaced by calm , reassurance , and bribery . |
| 21 | i Once it became obvious that youth organizations could not solve the ‘ boy labour problem ’ , either socially or economically , the question arose as to what needed to be done . |
| 22 | It had become clear that resale price enforcement by suppliers was an important barrier to the attainment of efficiency in the distributive sector . |
| 23 | However , now we 're spoilt for choice , it has become clear that Juice is neither the best nor the worst of the genre : less sentimental and powerful than Boyz N The Hood , and far superior to Straight Outta Brooklyn , Juice is still a fair way to spend an hour or two . |
| 24 | It has become clear that IVF does not help . |
| 25 | In recent years , it has become clear that phosphorylation plays a pivotal role in modulating the activity of sequence-specific transcription factors ( 1 , 2 ) . |
| 26 | From our experience it has become clear that training black staff is not the only solution . |
| 27 | Galton had become convinced that Lamarckism was ineffective because the character of each individual is rigidly determined by inheritance . |
| 28 | By the end of 1988 it has become obvious that Adobe 's proprietary font encoding system and hinting technologies ( these give good results at low resolutions ) were being broken by some of the other font foundries . |
| 29 | Although some biologists had become aware that Nature was not a system designed to progress inevitably towards higher levels of development , others retained the kind of progressionism that had been used to make the general idea of evolution palatable in the wake of Darwin 's Origin of Species . |
| 30 | The last author commented ‘ increasing numbers of Americans have become aware that crime exists in the suites of many corporations just as surely as it exists in the streets of their cities and suburbs ’ . |