Example sentences of "and [noun prp] have become " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had never been any warmth between the women , but they had learnt to respect each other , and Sarah had become accomplished at running the house . |
| 2 | The press has mushroomed , stalls are packed with newspapers and Romania has become a mecca for journalists from the West eager not only to report but instruct the new media , still largely partisan and biased , in western techniques and styles . |
| 3 | Movies , Big Macs and Coca-Cola have become the language of Europe . |
| 4 | By the nineteenth century , however , and especially in the life sciences , the metaphysics that had underpinned the work of Copernicus , Kepler , and Newton had become obstructive . |
| 5 | Klima may perhaps be a common name in Czechoslovakia , and Kundera has become a common name in the conversation of Western readers , who are drawn to these reciprocal concerns of his . |
| 6 | They each have to do a community service : Elena visits old people and Mentor has become a lifeguard . ’ |
| 7 | Since then , Australia 's become something of an , ahem , spiritual home for David , and Nic has become a close confidant and inspiration . |
| 8 | ‘ You know , Carrie , if Seb and Nahum have become friends tonight it will be the best wedding present I could possibly have . ’ |
| 9 | Oh , he had confessed his sins , walked barefoot to the shrine of St James at Compostela and both he and Fitzormonde had become hospitallers to make reparation . |
| 10 | No doubt collaboration with the Greek or Hellenized aristocracies of southern Italy and Sicily had become essential to Rome . |
| 11 | Relations between the UK and Spain had become strained following an incident on June 30 , 1989 , in which four Spanish customs officers were arrested and charged with illegal entry and possession of firearms after they had entered the territory in hot pursuit of three alleged Gibraltarian tobacco smugglers . |
| 12 | Nicholson , Fonda and Hopper had become the best of friends . |
| 13 | In the century since 1066 England and Normandy had become two parts of a single political society , linked rather than separated by the Channel , the main road of the Anglo-Norman realm Men and women crossed easily from one side to the other ; many wealthy families held lands in both England and Normandy ; and even though sharp-red language snobs were soon able to mock French " spoken after the manner of Marlborough " , people at the upper levels of society in fact spoke the same language , Norman French , on both sides . |
| 14 | Indeed both Oxford and Cambridge had become , relatively speaking , seriously understaffed over the previous decade despite the fact that at each university about 900 students were now reading English , three times as many as in 1965 . |
| 15 | His depictions of the blitzed architecture of London , Bath and Coventry have become key images of World War II . |
| 16 | By the time he was killed in North Africa , Claudia and Philip had become lovers . |
| 17 | Her friend — for she and Rose had become quite close — had sniffed at Mrs Langtry , and said kindly , ‘ I ‘ ear as ‘ ow she 's a right fat cow these days , ’ and fortunately had not asked to look at the other one she had bought . |
| 18 | Once or twice he had confided in colleagues , who were sympathetic but had little personal experience of such illnesses which , in any case , were not in their field and Brian had become increasingly reserved , his life revolving round his work , his son and a wife with whom he had difficulty in communicating . |
| 19 | Cooperation between Rover and Honda has become increasingly close since links were forged in 1979 . |
| 20 | Both Thurmaston and Countesthorpe had become industrial villages in the sense that the majority of the population were employed at a single craft . |
| 21 | Even when it was announced that she and Fabien had become formally engaged I would not give up my pursuit of her . |
| 22 | The system created in 1945–9 — when Stalin had established a series of puppet regimes in power in the East , and Europe had become ideologically , economically and militarily divided — now unravelled itself with astonishing speed . |
| 23 | More generally , governments in Japan , the US , and Europe have promoted and lavishly funded a number of large-scale pre-competitive research consortia ( such as the VSLI consortium , SEMATECH , MCC , ESPRIT , and others ) , and antitrust law and practice in both the US and Europe have become noticeably more lenient with the passage of the National Co-operative Research Act in 1984 and the announcement of the block exemption from Article 85 in the EEC for certain categories of R&D agreements in 1985 . |
| 24 | Terry and Middleton have become one of the country 's most reliable opening partnerships , so it was something of a surprise when , in the 19th over , Middleton was leg-before to Hooper for 27 with 68 on the board . |
| 25 | Stephen and Claire had become engaged before he went to Newcastle , but the engagement was short-lived . |
| 26 | By 1852 James Lowe was reduced to poverty and Bermondsey had become a slum . |
| 27 | Britain won the title , and within a couple of years Fritzi and Rixi had become an internationally celebrated bridge double-act . |
| 28 | And Anthea had become emotionally dependent on him in an alarmingly short time … |
| 29 | And Sandra has become a style icon , for the fashion world particularly . |
| 30 | Hermann Goering was the man behind the throne , and Hess had become increasingly of the margins . |