Example sentences of "become [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local communities became less a defence against the pressures of a hostile world , more a basis for active resistance : . |
| 2 | For him it now became less a place of protest than a refuge for failures , free-loaders and misfits . |
| 3 | That is how a system for dealing with genuine refugees — the losers in Indochina 's civil wars — became insensibly a system for turning North Vietnamese peasants into New York waiters . |
| 4 | That is how a system for dealing with genuine refugees — the losers in Indochina 's civil wars — became insensibly a system for turning North Vietnamese peasants into New York waiters . |
| 5 | I kept them to myself , where they constantly grew in depth and where they became merely a backdrop to my private obsession : home , family , school , everything . |
| 6 | Its origin , and its method of financing , almost inevitably led to it becoming effectively a horse infirmary . |
| 7 | by activities being insufficiently well linked , becoming just a series of subject-driven inputs with no natural relationship |
| 8 | ‘ It 's becoming just a fashion statement . |
| 9 | Being middle class was becoming more a matter of consumption than of belief . |
| 10 | He saved enough to buy a small hat-shop in Belfast , installed a manageress and on the slender profits of this enterprise read medicine at Queen 's University , Belfast , becoming later a consultant physician in Sydney , Australia . |
| 11 | becoming later a Doctor of Divinity and a distinguished Minister of the United Church of Canada . |
| 12 | Increasing cultural complexities suggest that Lodge 's image of the crossroads might even be brought up to date — and given , appropriately , a faintly foreign flavour — by the possibility of post-imperial Britain becoming increasingly a sort of spaghetti junction , heterogeneous styles and registers meeting , intertwining , competing or coalescing . |
| 13 | He was involved in the same heavy round of duties as soon as he returned to London , however , and honorary positions were becoming increasingly a burden . |
| 14 | In both the government and the opposition press in Morocco , the situation in the Western Sahara was meanwhile becoming increasingly a focus for nationalist commentary . |
| 15 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 16 | The sound of the water had become muted ; like background music , it receded from consciousness , becoming almost a part of the stillness and the silence . |
| 17 | Belinda had worked very hard indeed for nearly twelve years since her mother 's death , becoming almost a mother herself to the twin boys and doing as much of the cooking and housekeeping as she could between school and homework . |
| 18 | In fact , in 1989 the Abbey National Building Society became a public limited company and thereby ceased to be a building society , becoming instead a bank . |
| 19 | LABOUR 'S policy review was a symbol of the party renewing itself and becoming again a force for change , Tom Sawyer , deputy general secretary of Nupe , the public sector workers ' union , said at the start of four days of debate on the review reports . |
| 20 | became just a kind of foreman , or perhaps a member of lower managerial supervisory staff … the employers appear to have been determined to take the important decisions themselves rather than leave the butty with a significant degree of independence , as the modernity and high level of mechanization of the new pits perhaps dictated . |
| 21 | It became successively a fish market , a cheap restaurant , and finally a store for the London County Council . |
| 22 | From being a central coordinator determining a common line to be followed by all member firms , they became more a centre to which their members might turn for advice and industrial relations services , particularly those relating to the expanding field of labour law and other consequences of government action such as incomes policy requirements . |
| 23 | He recognized that the manyattas were ‘ an indigenous school ’ , an integral part of the process whereby a Masai became distinctively a Masai , and recommended that their character-building qualities be respected and adapted . |
| 24 | All too easily Soho could become less a way of life than an unbreakable habit . |
| 25 | erm I saw in the newspaper , as I am sure you probably did , last week that the government has just devoted , I think , nine million pounds over the next few years to develop curricula and methods of training teachers in schools , and I think it 's tremendously important that that does n't become merely a bit more science of one form or another . |
| 26 | Now , the coal crisis is so acute that steam locos on the mountain could become just a memory unless the present oil firing experiments at Snowdon are a success . |
| 27 | But as the new paradigm emerges economic activity will become more a means to an end , and less a primary social goal . |
| 28 | If we are troubled by the fact that the corporatist countervision we find hinted at in the legal materials might become simply a mask behind which corporate managers exercise unconstrained economic and social power , an alternative avenue for research is available to us . |
| 29 | This would enable a tough general manager to ensure that medical audit did not become simply a talk shop or token activity . |
| 30 | Taping your own sound effects is another interesting part of video movie making : it can become almost a hobby in itself . |