Example sentences of "have become [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He would have become just another abortion statistic , and speaks almost bitterly of having his ‘ own downtrodden minority . |
| 6 | It may well have become just another one of those self-congratulatory rhetorical devices that grace the public utterances of Anglo-American politicians . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By that time , the patterns of usage — still being developed as far as mathematics is concerned — will have become fairly clear . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mr Ceausescu may have become somewhat more dictatorial in the past decade , but it is not a qualitative change . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | It may have become so normal that you do n't but I think |
| 13 | How could this woman have become so attractive ? |
| 14 | Mussolini might have entertained another fancy , Churchill might have become too drunk to cope , and so on . |
| 15 | This means that publication of excavation reports , as the Frere Report indicates ( 1975 ) , will also have to be transformed , since large pottery reports may now have become too expensive to print in the traditional manner , and may have to be available in microfiche sheets . |
| 16 | But Leith 's glance went from him to where , at some time in the night , he must have become too hot and in stupor had shed his clothes , which were now in a crumpled heap by the side of the bed . |
| 17 | Some children will want a cuddle as they will have become very upset ; others may want a little sleep as they will have exhausted themselves . |
| 18 | You feel as though you must have become very bad , because the destructive thoughts that keep coming to you are most uncharacteristic and not at all the sod of thing you usually feel . |
| 19 | Had he restricted his output to such enterprises Baxter would undoubtedly have become very wealthy ; yet he suffered commercially throughout his career because of his perfectionism and over-ambition . |
| 20 | Later in life Tolkien may have become more uncertain about his own originality , and wrote that the elvish song of Rivendell was a ‘ hymn ’ , that ‘ these [ invocations of Elbereth ] and other references to religion in The Lord of the Rings are frequently overlooked ’ ( Road , p. 65 ) . |
| 21 | Additionally , the texts would have become more lucid had the book been adequately illustrated , which brings me to my second qualm . |
| 22 | Detectives say the young woman was left badly shaken after the assault and have warned that the incident might have become more serious if it had gone on any longer . |
| 23 | After 1406 its advisory role may have become more prominent . |
| 24 | Such an approach may have become more widespread among the Soviet political elite since the death of Brezhnev . |
| 25 | The steep hillsides made it more difficult to hide and transport cattle , and after the establishment of coffee plantations and gardens in the 1840s the crime must have become more difficult to carry out profitably . |
| 26 | They agree that skill requirements are reduced as mechanisation moves through the first three stages , but part company in their interpretation of what happens in fully automated plants , Bright claiming that , because the machinery becomes virtually self-sufficient in terms of needing no worker input , such work that does remain is subject to more centralised control and closer supervision even though the tasks to be performed may have become more sophisticated . |
| 27 | But I think I would have become more comfortable with myself anyway — it 's just the times catching up with me , my success , and feeling better about myself all came at about the same time . ’ |
| 28 | They could have been caught while young and retained in captivity , and as the result of hand-feeding and regular handling they would eventually have become quite domesticated . |
| 29 | In the hands of a Christopher Isherwood some of these characters might have become as memorable as Sally Bowles in Goodbye To Berlin . |
| 30 | Without such a mission , the second wave of English might have become as Irish as the Normans before them . |