Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [adv] become " in BNC.
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| 1 | The land for the strip had not even become available , Keker reminded him , until January 1986 , and the only aircraft that had ever landed there had stuck in the mud ; but North could not be persuaded that his memo was ‘ incompatible with the realities of things ’ . |
| 2 | By a painter who befriends him , and who sleeps for a while with his mother , Jaromil , already self-perceived as exceptional , original , is introduced to modern art , which ‘ had not yet become the shopworn property of the bourgeois masses and retained the fascinating aura of a sect , a magical exclusivity fascinating to childhood — an age always daydreaming about the romanticism of secret societies , fraternities and tribes ’ . |
| 3 | At this time localism had not yet become a threat . |
| 4 | They were pure ‘ gimmick ’ — a much-used Fifties word which had not yet become a term of abuse . |
| 5 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |
| 6 | Speaking for a generation of American and British intellectuals , Seldes condemned American movies for their ‘ falseness ’ but saw that it was ‘ the falseness of the McKinley era ’ , an era when ‘ the moral and intellectual tone — had not yet become infected with self-criticism ’ . |
| 7 | In Constantine 's time , Christian tradition had not yet become immutable dogma . |
| 8 | At a time when fashion , like much British culture , reflected predominantly middle-class values , and to escape these students were tapering their trousers and doing everything they could to make dull clothes more interesting , Minton 's stylish Bohemianism was much admired : he pioneered a taste for donkey jackets and had a flair for combining well-cut cast-offs and bow ties with eccentric items bought from Carnaby Street which had not yet become fashionable . |
| 9 | The monarch had not yet become what Walter Bagehot was to describe as the ‘ dignified ’ part of the Constitution . |
| 10 | A very real distinction remained between the vanguard of the class ( i.e. party members ) on the one hand , and , on the other , rank-and-file workers who had not yet become conscious of their real interests or understood revolutionary Marxism . |
| 11 | The pressures of urban living had not yet become such that men wished to flee , as they do now , to the mountains . |
| 12 | The fact that D'Oyly 's aristocratic informant said that the washermen should be paid for their service with money ( ridi ) may simply reflect the greater social distance which separated the aristocrats from the Hena , or it could be that , at that date , the distinction between commercial and non-commercial economic transactions had not yet become so clear-cut as it is today . |
| 13 | Until the reign of Mehmed II ( 1451–81 ) it is difficult to speak of a learned hierarchy since the practice of reserving the individual offices of state to men of a particular background and training whether to slaves of the Palace School system , to the ulema , or to men of the bureaucratic profession — had not yet become developed to any very great degree . |
| 14 | For the middle class the mid-nineteenth century was the golden era of the middle-aged , when men reached the peak of their careers , earnings and activity and physiological decline had not yet become obvious . |
| 15 | The man who , up to then , had experienced 18 years as a player at the highest level revealed how the sack made him determined to prove he had not suddenly become second rate . |
| 16 | At this time the village inn had not only become the centre of social life for the lower classes but was also frequented by the local squire and lesser gentry . |
| 17 | Finally I ventured to ask her to come and dine with me in the Pláka , which had not then become a pandemonium . |
| 18 | He had met her while staying with his Burne-Jones cousins at Rottingdean , a Sussex coastal village which had not then become a suburb of Brighton . |
| 19 | If the dwelling was without some necessary attribute such as a damp course or a roof , then it would be unfit for habitation , even though the problems resulting from the lack of the attribute had not then become apparent . |
| 20 | It was in the interests of the Great Powers that they could not be held bound by a treaty to which they had not formally become a party while , as will be seen , a number of the exceptions to the classic rule enabled them to impose their will upon weaker entities . |
| 21 | ‘ Proof that Silas really loved me , and that I had n't just become a habit with him . |