Example sentences of "[verb] become [adj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First the managers will be encouraged to tackle an issue that has become problematical in a bureau by asking open questions of themselves and the bureau staff . |
| 2 | A fierce solidarity was forged of a kind that has become archaic in the west . |
| 3 | Erm it has become worse in a way that er we did , I did experience some sort of er , er racial intolerance er with the youth , but the middle-aged and the er m older people were very , very er tolerant I had to ask er when I could n't find my way , ask my way to certain places and er there was an that er the lady just walked by me er with me and she , she said I 'll have to walk with you you ca n't find it . |
| 4 | The same Franco-Dutch argument has become pivotal in the current inter-governmental conference on political union . |
| 5 | Although a native of southern Europe , it has become naturalized in the rest of Europe , and is now grown commercially . |
| 6 | In this chapter we will present an analysis of the colliding wave problem using a method that has become familiar in the study of stationary axisymmetric space-times . |
| 7 | At a time when goals generally were becoming rarer as the old offside tactics became more widespread , Huddersfield still gave the crowd plenty of them , As the Examiner observed , the ‘ low passing and the long-field play of the Leeds Road team has become famous in the football world ’ . |
| 8 | They have also aroused Protestant anger against Dr Runcie , at the same time as he has become involved in a row over his attack on the ‘ Pharisees ’ of British society . |
| 9 | An alcohol problems voluntary agency helps Mrs F who has become involved in a family self-help group . |
| 10 | More recently 3i has become involved in the fashionable technique of ‘ buy-ins ’ , where teams of successful managers are headhunted from larger companies to run smaller struggling firms and turn then around . |
| 11 | It has become traditional in the West ( as well as in the former Soviet Union ) to move publication dates of new books on Chernobyl as close to the anniversary of the accident as possible . |
| 12 | The final scene , with its tear-jerking hospital-bed supplications for forgiveness , is neither more nor less than the ‘ I love you ’ , ‘ I love you too Momma ’ curtain-line that has become mandatory in a thousand soap operas . |
| 13 | Although ‘ laicisation ’ is a process that has become universal in the Western world , it is in North America where it is at its most advanced . |
| 14 | But what has become evident in the last couple of decades in particular is the scale and pace of agricultural developments which have , and continue to , reduce both the nature conservation and landscape values of many of our upland areas . |
| 15 | Moreover , public support for the system has become problematic in a way that poses some kind of challenge to the legitimacy and authority of the state itself . |
| 16 | One result of this has been that theology itself has become ecumenical in a fashion undreamt of a century ago , and many of the main fronts in theological debate and controversy now run across rather than along denominational boundaries . |
| 17 | To a Darwinian , a successful strategy is one that has become numerous in the population of strategies . |
| 18 | Through her involvement in the childcare sector , Helen has become interested in the wider problems facing women who wish to combine a career and family . |
| 19 | It has forgotten about its opponent ; it has become interested in the architecture . |
| 20 | If the approach to be found here can be tied to a previous tradition , it will be to the modern speculative grammar of which Jespersen and Sapir were eminent exponents earlier in the century ; this tradition has become unfashionable in the past two or three decades , though distinguished work in this mode has still been produced by various scholars , for instance P. H. Matthews in England and Dwight Bolinger in America ; in particular , if there are any worthwhile results in the present text , they owe much to Bolinger 's example of investigation through careful scrutiny of what really happens grammatically when a given expression is used . |
| 21 | Neither of them seems to have read any work of Latin poetry , though at least Polybius must have become fluent in the language : even their direct use of Latin historians is doubtful . |
| 22 | Sections of the left may currenty be enthused with the European Parliament and Social Charter , but out there , where it counts , in Europe 's cities and countryside , dinosaurs who should have become extinct in the 1930s are making the running . |
| 23 | He may have some that he did not use last year , or he may have become interested in a topic in the syllabus that has been given a new twist by some research ( perhaps his own ) . |
| 24 | Elephants have become rare , and the kouprey , a wild forest ox and one of the world 's rarest species , is now thought to have become extinct in the country — although it has been spotted in Laos . |
| 25 | The tahki , as it is known in Mongolia , is thought to have become extinct in the wild . |
| 26 | There is little doubt that to have become obese in the first instance we have simply eaten too much of the wrong sorts of foods . |
| 27 | In part , Southey 's changed manner reflected his desperate irritation with someone whose procrastinating habits had become unignorable in the cramped spaces of 25 College Street ( Coleridge admitted to Southey that ‘ you sate down and wrote — I used to saunter about and think what I should write ’ ) . |
| 28 | Within minutes they had become involved in a brawl , attacking a fellow drinker so fiercely his arm was broken , Stafford Crown Court heard . |
| 29 | Hartlepool Council 's policy and resources committee agreed to renew its £3,000 subscription to Teesside Tomorrow for 1992/93 after hearing that the organisation had become involved in a number of projects which would benefit the town . |
| 30 | Instead , he found that they were still in Portugal , where their captains had become involved in the war against the Moors . |