Example sentences of "become so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hamnett and Rosen became so close so quickly that May 's magazine was scrapped at the last minute in favour of a version reworked by Rosen . |
| 2 | Because they 're becoming so obscure now , that they 're becoming an e exercise in erm obscures or obscurity or whatever in the same way into the same appalling state as the annual report disease is becoming a design competition not an annual report presentation of financial figures . |
| 3 | It was an unfathomable mystery how a once-wealthy magnate could become so poor merely by the act of assuming the crown . |
| 4 | The museum director , Mr Murata , states that since French paintings have become so expensive today it is no longer possible for a museum to build a satisfactory collection of them , and therefore they have decided to collect British works , focusing on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists . |
| 5 | The Kleinwort analysts believe that the group 's accelerating cash generation will attract increased market attention now that all companies ' earnings have become so volatile under FRS 3 reporting . |
| 6 | ( By 1983 , fashion had become so disjointed anyway — it became possible to achieve the look and sound of any youth cult movement since the forties and still remain firmly in vogue ) . |
| 7 | Indeed this ‘ gender neutral ’ definition of sexism has become so prevalent even since the first edition of this book was written , it is necessary in this revised edition to be much more explicit about my use of the term . |