Example sentences of "become [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If not , the persons ‘ knowingly concerned ’ would have to pay and , on payment , would become subrogated to the primary claim against the contravener . |
| 2 | Frequently , however , there is also an ingrowth of the sternum near their origin so that they are carried inwards and the whole forms a Y-shaped structure , the furca , whose internal arms may become fused with the pleural arms or are connected with them by short muscles . |
| 3 | For instance , given the fact that metals expand when heated , it is possible to derive the fact that continuous railway tracks not interrupted by small gaps will become distorted in the hot sun . |
| 4 | In a few years , the sward may become dominated by the coarse tussock-forming grass , Brachypodium pinnatum , and eventually the vegetation turns into some form of scrub and possibly woodland . |
| 5 | Whereas most novel beliefs can become anchored into the cultural patterns of common sense , there is something special about the transmission of scientific ideas in the modern age . |
| 6 | What was it like ? ’ you grandchildren may ask in the future , for the late eighties in Britain might well become known as the second ‘ Belle Epoque ’ . |
| 7 | Full details will become known as the successive subject working groups report , and programmes of study and attainment targets are drawn up . |
| 8 | Daily newspapers are now becoming popular , providing the first phase of what will later become known as the mass media . |
| 9 | For example , a centred heading above justified text would become blocked at the left-hand margin if Alt+P was applied to it as well as to the text below . |
| 10 | This will be sufficient to investigate the energy range in which the electromagnetic forces should become unified with the weak forces according to the Salam-Weinberg theory , but not the enormously high energy at which the weak and electromagnetic interactions would be predicted to become unified with the strong interactions . |
| 11 | She knew how badly one sister had treated you ; she quite obviously did n't want to see you become associated with the other … ’ |
| 12 | One disadvantage of the change might be that the more precise moral distinctions currently incorporated within the law would become submerged within the sentencing discretion , where the signposts are less clear and the arguments less structured . |
| 13 | In a moment we are about to leave the leisured and leisurely world of the eighteenth-century gentlemen and hurtle through the mechanical and material world of nineteenth-century England , where the revolutionary ideas of the aristocratic philosophers will become embodied in the social , political and economic structures of industrial Europe . |
| 14 | But many do n't return and become hooked on the overseas lifestyle ! |
| 15 | The councillor should become acquainted with the principal officers from whom he can gain a considerable amount of information and help . |
| 16 | Anyone working seriously on the social and economic history of the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries must become acquainted with the major findings of this demographic research . |
| 17 | [ … ] However the problem with regulation , as US experience testifies , is that the regulatory agency can become captured by the political interests of the industry it is regulating and fail to act as the guardian of consumers ' interests . |