Example sentences of "[noun] become [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this year , however , Gary became really confused for a couple of months and began to doubt his call in the first place . |
| 2 | In the event of the building becoming insufficiently furnished for full habitation or unoccupied , cover under both policies is restricted as follows : |
| 3 | Morley became well known for its music ( Sir Michael Tippett ) , its theatre and ballet ( Rupert Doone ) , and its art ( Eric Ravilious , q.v. , and Edward Bawden ) . |
| 4 | In 1901 he was appointed conductor of the Toynbee Musical Association , a mixed-voice choir attached to a men 's social club , and in 1906 he founded the Glasgow Orpheus Choir , with which his name became indelibly linked for the rest of his life . |
| 5 | At this time there was much comment in the horticultural press about the excessive attention lavished on summer bedding at the expense of the other seasons , and Fleming was the first gardener to become well known for ‘ spring gardening ’ , although by the 1870s there was a coterie which pressed the claims to priority of William Ingram of Belvoir Castle . |
| 6 | Early this century jute sacks became widely used for home distribution although the export of cement still continued in battels and later in steel drums . |
| 7 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
| 8 | After the passage quoted just above concerning the esteem in which Molla Fenari was held and his place in the state , and before passing on to the next event in his life , namely his going on the pilgrimage in 822 ( 8 Dhu " l-Hijja = 26 December 1419 ) , Ibn Hajar writes that Molla Fenari became widely known for his erudition and that he was both pious and abundant in culture and merit " except that he was censured for [ espousing ] the sect of Ibn al- " Arabi and for the fact that he taught the and affirmed it " : he goes on to say that Molla Fenari , on the advice of friends , abjured mention of the subject in Egypt . |
| 9 | Predators become better equipped for killing , but at the same time prey become better equipped to avoid being killed , so the net result is no change in the rate of successful killings . |