Example sentences of "become [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second is any child under the age of about five , who is unlikely to be able to concentrate for the necessary time — although it must be said that older children probably make the best subjects of all , as they are still at the stage where their imagination is in good working order and they have not become weighed down by the need to earn a living or the problems of bringing up a family . |
| 2 | Angelica 's thinking that a bag of garbage has probably been carried along on the night swell and has become caught up amongst the pillars and the metal cross-tics ; there will always be somebody who 'll think that a couple of heavy stones and a drop out over the deepest part of the lake are an adequate way of disposing of all their empty cans and peelings and plate-scrapings . |
| 3 | By then you will have become tuned in to the driving and will be better able to judge if it is safe to go a little faster . |
| 4 | Here , depressive feelings associated with the originators of agriculture — the weaning mothers of the first , and every , cultivating generation — seem to have become displaced on to the new subsistence-pattern itself . |
| 5 | Now it seems to have become collapsed back into the academy . |
| 6 | Amnesty International is appealing to Somali political leaders and the international community to take urgent steps to end the spiral of killings and torture which has become known locally as the ‘ Mogadishu Scenario ’ . |