Example sentences of "become [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bolsheviks had suddenly become exposed to the full blast of inter-state competition . |
| 2 | Many dolphins drown as the net is pulled and tightened towards the side of the seiner , and they become trapped in the closing mesh . |
| 3 | The pre-communist Nizan and the postcommunist Sartre have , in other words , become fused in the public imagination as an example of the impossibility of the communist intellectual , the communist writer , the communist novelist . |
| 4 | Small portions of these types of soft coral also become detached from the main colony naturally and it helps to resite these offspring away from the parent colony to avoid competition for light and food which results if they are left too close together . |
| 5 | These dominant ideas become reflected in the concrete features of the social structure , giving them legitimacy and reproducing them . |
| 6 | ( iv ) As autumn progresses and temperatures fall an increasing proportion ( up to 80% ) of the L3 ingested do not mature but become inhibited at the early fourth larval stage ( EL4 ) . |
| 7 | In this deformation all quantities dX become increased by the same factor — -1 ) . |
| 8 | In the minds of men the Created God could , in the course of time , become personified as the immortal keeper of the good which ensures the continuing development of life in accordance with the desired pattern , but that personification should never be allowed to cloud the origins of the Created God , which came from life . |
| 9 | Anomalous aspects of nature often venerated by ritual over long periods of time become charged with the directed mental/ psychic energy of their race . |
| 10 | In the last decade , collectors have also become associated with the illicit export of art objects from the country . |
| 11 | Although mature horses may harbour a few adult worms , heavy burdens are usually confined to yearlings and to foals , which become infected from the first month or so of life , and infection is maintained largely by seasonal transmission between these groups of young animals . |
| 12 | Merger can be applied for when the freehold and leasehold estates become vested in the same person , whether or not both titles are registered . |
| 13 | Robson was , in one sense , simply echoing the words of Maitland that ‘ if you take up a modern volume of the reports of the Queen 's Bench division , you will find that about half the cases reported have to do with rules of administrative law ’ and that you must ‘ not neglect their existence in your general description of what English law is ’ otherwise ‘ you will frame a false and antiquated notion of our constitution ’ The fact that Robson felt the need to propound this view so strongly , and that Maitland 's thoughts seemed to have been almost entirely neglected , serve to indicate that conservative normativism had by the 1920s become established as the dominant tradition . |
| 14 | For one thing , the negative associations of blackness with impurity , evil , misery and dirt had already become established in the English language , partly through the colour symbolism of Christian doctrine ( James , 1981 ; Dabydeen , 1985a ) . |
| 15 | When it is difficult for the family or the child to attach themselves to each other , then at the end of the day the child will leave the family and become attached to the black community . |
| 16 | It is the most addictive drug ever — many become addicted from the first time they use it . |
| 17 | ( d ) Exercise of powers The individual may , in the event of the exercise or successive exercise of one or more powers , by whomsoever exercisable and whether with or without the consent of any other person , become entitled to the beneficial enjoyment of the income . |