Example sentences of "[vb infin] become [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , but that would have become progressively more risky as people began to stir . ’ |
| 2 | Whether one applies the older notion of a trend from less to more specialized or the newer concept of a trend from an r-to a K-selected adaptive strategy ( ecologists seem to have a love-hate relationship towards r and K selection ( Dawkins , 1981 ) ) , the phyletically younger organisms would have become progressively more vulnerable to environmental disturbance . |
| 3 | The reader will by now have become thoroughly jaded with the constant repetition of this fundamental tenet of Keynesian economics , but how do the new classical writers respond to it ? |
| 4 | From what I later found out , it was apparent that if we were not sent home it may have become increasingly difficult to transport those pupils who travelled on coaches home through the floods which had been gradually rising , mainly due to the River Deben bursting its banks and so flooding the nearby villages . |
| 5 | Moreover , to a very great extent bourgeois morality was actually applied ; indeed it may have become increasingly effective as the masses of the ‘ respectable ’ working classes adopted the values of the hegemonic culture , and the lower middle classes , which followed it by definition , grew in numbers . |
| 6 | Theodore was determined to assert his authority throughout the whole Anglo-Saxon Church and it must have become immediately apparent that Oswiu 's influence over the new archbishop was minimal . |
| 7 | He would also have become even more unpopular than he already was with the Pharisees , who were bitterly opposed to the Roman occupation . |
| 8 | He would have become just another abortion statistic , and speaks almost bitterly of having his ‘ own downtrodden minority . |
| 9 | It may well have become just another one of those self-congratulatory rhetorical devices that grace the public utterances of Anglo-American politicians . |
| 10 | In addition , an animal that is born and survives to adulthood will have become generically suited to the surroundings and conditions under which this takes place . |
| 11 | It would need a profound belief in providence to make one refrain from wondering why a group of foggy islands off Europe 's north-western shores , populated beyond the means of subsistence that the islands could provide , endowed with no great natural assets outside the coalfields , should have become both the centre of a world empire and a possible arbiter of European rivalries . |
| 12 | It may be that unless there had been this early sectarian stance by Freud , the body of theory and practice would have become hopelessly confused , so that , from a practical standpoint , Freud 's judgement and action was correct . |
| 13 | So she moves them to a nearby burrow when they are approximately four weeks old and at that time they will have become virtually self-supporting . |
| 14 | As the Cotswolds specialised in the production of fine wool , and Cirencester was one of the greatest marts in the land , strategically sited to serve both the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire manufacturing districts , with lesser centres at Chipping Campden and Northleach , the balance might have become decisively tilted towards sheep . |
| 15 | By that time , the feeder pipe of magma will have become fairly well insulated from the sea , so for the first time the cherry red glow of liquid lava will be seen , and small lava flows will emerge , cementing the island together . |
| 16 | By that time , the patterns of usage — still being developed as far as mathematics is concerned — will have become fairly clear . |
| 17 | Dear Colleague , With the passage of the Animals ( Scientific Procedures ) Bill in 1986 , we may have thought that the animal rights movement would have become less militant and that scientific research would be subject to less disruption . |
| 18 | Mr Ceausescu may have become somewhat more dictatorial in the past decade , but it is not a qualitative change . |
| 19 | As individual craftsmen neither had the desire nor the capital to pay for development work on machinery suitable for small-scale home-based use , factory-based manufacture would have become relatively more efficient over time as the technology was developed . |
| 20 | Whether banks should have become so involved in such financial flows is an issue for debate among academics , bankers , finance ministers and official agencies . |
| 21 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 22 | That was not so ; the questions answered included those which were material and those said not to be relevant might well have become so . |
| 23 | ‘ The coercion may of course be of different kinds , it may be in the grossest form , such as actual confinement or violence , or a person in the last days or hours of life may have become so weak and feeble , that a very little pressure will be sufficient to bring about the desired result , and it may even be , that the mere talking to him at that stage of illness and pressing something upon him may so fatigue the brain , that the sick person may be induced , for quietness ' sake , to do anything . |
| 24 | We gained the impression that — like several other practices in primary education — the strategy of grouping has become an end in itself rather than a device adopted for particular educational purposes ; moreover , as a strategy grouping may have become so deeply ingrained in primary consciousness and practice that to ask questions about its educational purposes may seem , to some , almost impertinent . |
| 25 | I do n't think that was true then , though it could have become so as Saddam Hussein faced continued sanctions . |
| 26 | It may have become so normal that you do n't but I think |
| 27 | How could this woman have become so attractive ? |
| 28 | But Mr Major 's room for manoeuvre was limited by the loss of Mr Chris Patten , who could well have become Home Secretary , and two other rising stars : the two Treasury Ministers Mr Francis Maude and Mr John Maples . |
| 29 | GOVERNMENTS throughout most of Western Europe are this week wondering whether one of their country 's warehouses or toxic tips may have become home to 41 drums of dioxin-contaminated waste that was spirited out of Italy last September . |
| 30 | When he says of Bilbo that he gave up the Ring ‘ of his own accord : an important point ’ , he may be saying only that Bilbo ca n't have become too badly addicted , or more moralistically that Bilbo 's good impulse will help his cure . |