Example sentences of "become [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Through such breaks , an enjoyable day became memorable .
2 Through such breaks , an enjoyable day became memorable .
3 About this time the Geomagnetism Unit and the Global Seismology Unit were incorporated into NERC and became component parts of IGS .
4 Henceforward the split between the Teller and Oppenheimer camps in the scientific community became total .
5 In 1663 an Act of Charles II had placed a partial ban on the importation of foreign cattle to England ; the ban became total in 1666 and permanent in 1680 .
6 To some extent this was natural , for , as economic mobilisation became total , finance took a back seat to the direct controls over labour and materials .
7 He is improving generally and his memory and concentration became normal during the 0/2 dosage .
8 It was only in the tenth and eleventh centuries that it became normal or common for giant churches to be built .
9 Her energy and enthusiasm for life returned , her sleep pattern became normal once more and she was able again to cope with life .
10 But of course the most important cases of the rise of the salaried professional in cultural production have occurred in the institutions of the new media , in which integrated social production became normal and necessary .
11 Somehow I managed to get Joe out of the house , and in the daylight he gradually became normal again .
12 Anne was surprised at how quickly all that seemed so strange became normal .
13 Accordingly it became normal to try to survey erosion terraces and their associated features in the field and this type of investigation illustrates well the desirability of fitting the punishment to the crime , or more prosaically reaching a compromise between accuracy and amount of data .
14 Our results also showed that plasma and urine cAMP and cGMP values were abnormally high in coeliac disease patients who had not been treated , and became normal only after treatment when clinical , biochemical , and histological remission was achieved .
15 Serial measurements of COHb ( IL 482 CO-Oximeter , Instrumentation Laboratory , USA ) were done hourly in all 6 patients until the index became normal , and arterial blood pressure , heart rate , and SpO were monitored ( peripheral oxygen saturation by M1020 module , Hewlett Packard , USA ) .
16 When the band became profitable on the road , it went back up .
17 It was argued that the government 's policy towards Austin Rover could be viewed as an attempt to slim down the company through rationalisation and privatise parts as they became profitable ( eg Jaguar ) , finishing up with an unprofitable rump which had very little chance of long-term viability on its own .
18 Although GEMMs in the aggregate made substantial losses during the years 1987 – 89 , the market as a whole became profitable in 1990 and remained so in 1991 .
19 Last autumn it was stated in a document that there would have to be further subscriptions of finance before er , the project became profitable .
20 Industry would be unwilling to invest further in recycling until it became profitable , he said .
21 Member firms became profitable again in 1989 after heavy losses following the crash of 1987 .
22 Behind Kohelet and Moschos the world had moved fast , and what was already at the start a semi-Utopian picture by Greek philosophers soon became absurd .
23 As the intentions of the British Electric Traction Company became clearly known , relations between them and Croydon Corporation became strained .
24 The count stayed with the holiday party for 12 days but said he left when his relationship with Mellor became strained .
25 It was also at this stage of increasing daily use and possibly injecting that family relationships generally became strained and in many cases reached breaking point .
26 But my father 's conversation with me became strained .
27 However corporacy became strained when the acute unit wanted to apply for self-governing status .
28 Industrial relations became strained when the post office abolished a flexible shift system at the SWindon branch .
29 She talked in brief spurts in between which her eyes became glazed , probably as a result of whatever drug they had given her .
30 However , they would become noisy if ignored or neglected and downright troublesome if the family itself became lazy or rude .
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