Example sentences of "[vb infin] become [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerald Ford , the leader of the Republicans in the House , ‘ might have become a pretty good Grand Rapids insurance agent ; he played a good game of golf , but he was n't excessively bright ’ . |
| 2 | A lot of the women whose benefit was cut off were back on our books again a few weeks later — which suggested either that their relationships had not really been like that of husband and wife , or that our intrusion had broken up what might have become a more lasting union . |
| 3 | More important , the Theatre Royal ( 1836–7 ) and the Grey column ( 1837–8 ) in Newcastle , stately neo-classical structures which were key elements in the heroic replanning of the city centre by Richard Grainger [ q.v. ] , were evidently also his conceptions , and suggest that he might have become a more significant figure in his own right had he not died relatively young , surviving his father by a mere six years . |
| 4 | By the age of 18 or 20 , he had completed his apprenticeship in life : he might have become a very good photographer , probably an excellent painter , a good mountaineer and hiker , or a fine skier . |
| 5 | He must have become a fairly senior member of his own company , since he was one of the receiving trustees of Painter-Stainers ' Hall in 1580 , and one of those releasing the hall to others in 1605 . |
| 6 | If one had to make a guess , it is that within another ten years or so ‘ environment ’ will have become a somewhat passé term , rather as ‘ ecological ’ has , simply because of its insufficiency as a generic description ; a term which links the preservation of rural landscapes in Europe to the fate of millions in Bangladesh obviously has problems of definition . |
| 7 | Let us examine the implications of this ; property crime became by far the most common form of crime during the period in which the prison emerged ; therefore forced labour would have become the most common punishment ; forced labour requires incarceration ( people tend not to turn up for it of their own free will ) . |