Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb past] become " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fleet of 50,000 tons at the time of Drake had become a grander fleet of 200,000 tons a century later when Samuel Pepys was " clerk of the king 's ships " . |
| 2 | The study of literature had become little more than a loose aggregate of philosophy , history , psychology , aesthetics , ethnography , sociology , and so on , and the Formalists felt that any specificity it might have had had been swamped by its adjacent disciplines . |
| 3 | As Jakobson put it , historians of literature had become practitioners of what he called ‘ homespun ’ disciplines based on psychology , politics and philosophy , where literature itself could only offer secondary and defective evidence ; Evgeny Onegin is likely to prove a somewhat unreliable document for the people that Osip Brik called the ‘ maniacs … passionately seeking the answer to the question ‘ did Pushkin smoke ? ’ ’ ( 1977 : 90 ) . |
| 4 | By 1930 , handspinning of wool had become commercially impracticable and thenceforth many weavers in Lewis imported yarn from the mainland . |
| 5 | The actual time of the start is difficult to arrive at , and is not important , but whatever the historical facts may be , it can be taken as fairly certain that the misuse of religion had become well established at the time of the advent of Jesus Christ . |
| 6 | The statement of light had become a depressing and , at times , boring mess of discontent . |
| 7 | By the mid-1920s the universal result of the earlier shortage of equipment had become clear : 75 per cent of all cases of letting out land were due to lack of adequate tools . |
| 8 | A wide grin of delight had become a permanent fixture on his face , and Paul smiled at him in return as he cantered back to check the ox carts . |
| 9 | It would be wrong to suggest that the disturbances were motivated solely by hostility towards Dissent , since they reflected a complex series of political grievances against the current Whig government ; yet that is precisely the point being made here , that antipathy towards Dissent had become deeply politicised . |
| 10 | We found , however , some cases where the definition of reasonableness had become a bone of contention and subject to tense renegotiation , especially by Japanese investors . |
| 11 | By that time his feelings of resentment against his mother were fixed for life , and the imaginative intensity with which he called up the Devon landscape as a lost Eden of content had become a habit of mind . |
| 12 | He had been knocked unconscious on so many occasions that the process of revival had become for him little more than the formality of asking three simple questions as soon as his senses could be trusted to provide reliable answers . |
| 13 | The moment had now arrived when , at the various levels of military command , that state of conflict began to become apparent . |
| 14 | With the 8 mm clast sizes , exposed edges of bone began to become chipped within the first hour of abrasion and some loss of molars occurred ( Fig. 1.10A ) , but once the weaker bone had been removed no further breakage occurred . |
| 15 | He was , however , a preacher and a man of goodwill rather than a leader and man of action so that a change of leadership had become desirable when he retired . |
| 16 | In fact , within a year of the formation of the Labour Government , senior officials in the Cabinet Office , Treasury and Board of Trade had become seriously alarmed by the cumbersome nature of the organization supporting the Attlee Cabinet , the proliferation of committees and the prolix and indecisive performance of some ministers . |
| 17 | But in any event the hand of the State in the exercise of rebuilding had become uncontestable . |
| 18 | The essence of showmanship had become the capacity to build up from one 's regular audience , to bring in whole families , to attract women and children , to win over religious families who were normally against organized entertainment , to convince trade unionists and the politically active that a moment 's respite was harmless enough , and to convince the respectable and well-to-do that a visit to the movies was not a disgraceful act . |
| 19 | Andropov set out his general approach to such matters in a speech in the spring of 1983 in which he emphasised that the Soviet Union was ‘ only at the beginning ’ of the long historical stage of developed socialism ; there must be no exaggeration of the country 's closeness to communism , and no attempt to minimise the difficulties that lay ahead Discussing the party programme more directly , Andropov told the Central Committee in June 1983 that many of its directives had in fact been realised : links between citizens and deputies , for instance , had become closer , and national discussion of major items of legislation had become a well-established practice . |
| 20 | He realized that Rommel 's lines of communication had become so stretched that they would be even more vulnerable to attack , and every man detached to guard them would be one less to face the Eighth Army at Alamein . |
| 21 | Some of honest and good heart would not even speak to a Christian as late as the mid-third century , by which date the Christian story and way of life had become well known , because they suspected them of enormities . |
| 22 | The loneliness of life had become unbearable . ’ |
| 23 | By 1975 all the classics — like Greer 's Female Eunuch and Friedan 's Feminine Mystique — were best-selling paperbacks and the basic principles of feminism had become everyday parlance in the West . |
| 24 | Moreover , by the beginning of the 19th century , the rate of growth had become really fast — well over 10 per cent in ten years . ’ |
| 25 | Yet its appeal to youth had greatly concerned Cripps , whose influence with the Labour League of Youth had become considerable . |
| 26 | By the end of the New Temple Period , the art of making vases out of stone had become a very specialized and rare craft . |
| 27 | Two pointed spires of stone had become visible , seeming to sprout from the middle of the jungle , and the captain laughed again . |
| 28 | Yet both parties had considerably advanced public expenditure , particularly on social policies , to the point where some economists had argued that this kind of expenditure had become an inflationary force , limiting the scope for new wealth-creating private investment . |
| 29 | The plan was to sell £2 billion of assets per annum , but , as a result of the success of the British Telecom privatisation of December 1984 , the figure to be raised was more than doubled ( to £4.75 billion per annum ) — by this time the revenue-raising implications of privatisation had become more apparent . |
| 30 | Once the notion of trust had become divorced from that of dependence on a testamentary heir ( which seems very soon to have happened ) , the way was open to set up trusts charged on beneficiaries under the will other than the heir , or even on persons who benefited where there was no will at all . |