Example sentences of "to become [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The political and intellectual ‘ zeitgiest ’ of England in the Thirties appears to have suited James ' radical and romantic temperament ; this period of intense political ferment gave James the opportunity to become embroiled in the great political and ideological debates that so dominated the times . |
| 2 | The showers fairly widespread at first , will tend to become confined to the western counties by the early hours of Monday . |
| 3 | ‘ The rapid inflation of the tailcone and empennages imposed a high differential pressure across the tailplane 's skins causing the upper panels to become detached from the main structure . |
| 4 | At this stage , the NILP sought to become incorporated within the wider Labour Party and to play a full role in the state-wide struggle against the Tories . |
| 5 | It is perfectly possible to build a tag that , for example , creates a blank page before it but is not allowed to become separated from the next block of text . |
| 6 | Though their work on evolutionary theory was complementary , Wallace has tended to become overshadowed by the religious and scientific furore that accompanied the publication of Darwin 's The Origin of Species . |
| 7 | Ice motion causes the meteorites to become concentrated in the same sort of way that mountain streams concentrate deposits of gold or other heavy minerals in ‘ lenses ’ or into layered structures . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The highest achievement a human being can aspire to is to become centred in the intuitive mind , guided and supported by our inner teacher and listening with an aware and practised inner ear . |
| 10 | A seeker after spiritual truth may respond to the warmth of energy pouring from a guru , without ever questioning whether he wishes to become attached to the particular variety of truth represented . |
| 11 | Many subtleties of meaning are carried by words in this category , and these meanings have to become attached to the written forms so that they readily convey to the reader what kind of thinking is taking place . |
| 12 | The warm reception accorded from most quarters to the Woolf report on the prison riots of April 1990 ( Woolf and Tumim , 1991 ) suggests that its diagnosis and prescription bid fair to become established as the standard liberal account of what causes prison riots and what should be done to prevent them . |
| 13 | So all I 'm arguing is that all such a gene for penis envy would have to do would be to promote the reproductive success of the little girls who 've had it to that gene eventually to become established throughout the entire female population , just as the gene for oedipal behaviour , or phallic behaviour , would become selective in males . |
| 14 | He left me to become acquainted with the religious environment , and then handed me a paperback entitled Modern Buddhism in Burma , which he had edited in cooperation with Kenneth Saunders , warden of the YMCA hostel , and already a translator of the Dhamma-pada , a collection of short sayings thought to go back to the Buddha . |
| 15 | With the 8 mm clast sizes , exposed edges of bone began to become chipped within the first hour of abrasion and some loss of molars occurred ( Fig. 1.10A ) , but once the weaker bone had been removed no further breakage occurred . |