Example sentences of "become [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became eventually a conscientious objector . |
| 2 | As I became professionally involved in trying to understand what , if anything , was happening I realised that here was a rare opportunity for the public to experience science in action , feel the excitement that drives inquisitive minds , and see how discoveries are made , tested , replicated , proven and developed into a new technology . |
| 3 | Partly because of the earlier bitterness of the battle over comprehensive reorganization , more because in the new artificially contrived areas ( such as ‘ Humberside ’ , ‘ Avon ’ , ‘ Kirklees ’ , and ‘ Thamesdown ’ ) there was no tradition and no sense of local needs , political alignments became overwhelmingly important . |
| 4 | The women migrants within countries became overwhelmingly domestic servants , until they married some fellow-countryman , or passed into some other urban occupation . |
| 5 | Suddenly then Fabia became overwhelmingly conscious of her thin cotton robe , her scrubbed face with her hair , brushed out of its knot , now floating around her — and it all at once seemed more urgent that she return to her room with all speed . |
| 6 | The sun became relentlessly hot , adding dehydration to my distress ; I stripped off my pyjamas and restored them to the rucksack . |
| 7 | It was a horrible practice , and became most common in the reign of Henry VII , and especially in the eastern counties . |
| 8 | This became most strikingly clear when the encyclicals Lamentabili and Pascendi in 1907 condemned the ‘ modernists ’ . |
| 9 | The woman-centred perspective had some impact at the beginning of the second wave of western feminism , but it was in the 1970s that it became most powerful , and most in conflict with egalitarian approaches . |
| 10 | The value of this approach became most evident in the period after the First World War , which many regard as marking the terminus of the era of belief in continuous evolutionary progress of human society . |
| 11 | But 1973 instead became most significant for the October Arab-Israeli War and a quadrupling of oil prices which further deepened the West 's economic difficulties . |
| 12 | His pantomime became most articulate when we at last reached the two vast geological features which mark the gateway to Torajaland . |
| 13 | ‘ They became most precious when they fulfilled the Conventional Rules . ’ |
| 14 | Having instigated this trip in the first place , Maggie became most anxious and cornered Mitch upstairs after breakfast . |
| 15 | Such methods will be dealt with more fully in Chapter 4 on social surveys where the Lazarsfeldian conception became most firmly entrenched . |
| 16 | He had decided that it was time to think things through and settle them once and for all , but whenever he started thinking about Zeinab thoughts became memories of touch and smell and look and emotion and he became most unsettled . |
| 17 | Unfortunately no division lists survive for the Commons for the years 1691 – 5 , and there are strong grounds for believing ( as will be discussed later ) that it was precisely in this period when party lines became most blurred . |
| 18 | Skip brought a few friends on the boat when he found the Soviets were not skilled ocean racers ( it became most apparent in Alexei 's case ) . |
| 19 | Old land-owning families prospered and built under Queen Elizabeth I 's reign , but many of them became badly unstuck during the Civil War . |
| 20 | His left Achilles tendon became badly shortened , making it difficult for him to put his foot to the floor , and he had a strong positive supporting reaction in his foot . |
| 21 | The night became bitterly cold . |
| 22 | As the hangers-on increased , he became bitterly aware that his inheritance , far from liberating him , had trapped him in a role he could not forsake . |
| 23 | Masson became bitterly critical of Britain 's Afghan policy in the years before the Afghan war . |
| 24 | Although the Whigs repealed the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts after the Han-overian Succession , they took their time in doing so , and the party became bitterly divided on the issue . |
| 25 | She was small and dark , with rimless spectacles , and became matronly in middle age . |
| 26 | He became keenly aware that there was much to be learned from practice overseas but his method remained essentially descriptive , allowing his meticulously detailed reports to speak for themselves . |
| 27 | Most political scientists became keenly alive to their limited explanatory worth , and the New Right condemned British democracy pointing to the adversarial nature of party politics and to the dangerous overload of interest-group demands . |
| 28 | Bill Koch became acutely embarrassed that money was being donated to this party in his name , yet he had little cash of his own . |
| 29 | A previously well 15 year old , who had been living with friends , became acutely violent and confused shortly after his return home . |
| 30 | SIR — A 43-year-old healthy Finnish man visited St Petersburg in Russia for 3 days during Easter , 1993. 12 h after he returned he became acutely ill with a sore throat . |