Example sentences of "[modal v] become [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her owner rushed to bring her a bucket of oats before she should become entangled in the fence once again . |
| 2 | Candy would tell her there was no point in trying to buck fate — it was in the stars that she should become entangled in this whole crazy situation . |
| 3 | Since sudden death can occur in this group of patients , the duration of the ventricular arrhythmia must become prolonged in some cases and can evolve into ventricular fibrillation . |
| 4 | As a result , various portions of one chain may become incorporated in more than one crystallite during growth , thereby imposing a strain on the polymer which retards the process of crystallite formation . |
| 5 | Of course , these strivings to realize organizational goals may become crystallized in standard operational procedures . |
| 6 | Examples of this may be : the agoraphobic person who never goes out because they believe they will collapse and die of a heart attack ; the lift phobic who believes they may become trapped in the lift and suffocate to death ; a person who avoids meeting others because , if a disagreement starts , they believe they will lose their temper and hit people ; and last , a person may obsessively check the locks on doors and windows , believing that somebody is bound to break into the house if they fail to make these checks . |
| 7 | If the number of managerial jobs does not continue expanding , more and more men may become trapped in the way that female clerks already are . |
| 8 | The basket should not be closed too tightly as many duct stones are soft and the basket wires may become embedded in the stone so that it can not be released . |
| 9 | His only fear is the region could become trapped in a cycle of boom and bust . |
| 10 | The Collector wondered whether the garrison , too , would become covered in green mould . |
| 11 | Such knowledge was not only desirable in itself , but would liberate and transform the life of the individual , and through him [ sic ] , the life of the society , since such individuals would or should be the appropriate leaders or rulers , a notion which would become democratized in modern ideologies of liberal education to include ‘ leaders ’ in any walk of life ( especially the working-class ) and indeed the ordinary , democratic citizen . |
| 12 | If all scientists were and remained normal scientists then a particular science would become trapped in a single paradigm and would never progress beyond it . |
| 13 | In a moment we are about to leave the leisured and leisurely world of the eighteenth-century gentlemen and hurtle through the mechanical and material world of nineteenth-century England , where the revolutionary ideas of the aristocratic philosophers will become embodied in the social , political and economic structures of industrial Europe . |
| 14 | However , there is a danger for shareholders that they will become trapped in the power play between the two US giants . |
| 15 | This prevents any escape across the open ground and many of the rabbits will become entangled in the net . |
| 16 | For instance , given the fact that metals expand when heated , it is possible to derive the fact that continuous railway tracks not interrupted by small gaps will become distorted in the hot sun . |
| 17 | Thirdly , the witness 's own memory can become corrupted in the course of the interrogation . |
| 18 | These misinterpretations can become embedded in practice and , once there , are difficult to eradicate . ) |
| 19 | After recent problems with pigs — the kind that can become trapped in pipelines — it was ironic that Hyde project celebrated first gas from the field with a great pig roast . |