Example sentences of "and [noun pl] to become " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1970s and 1980s Milan had changed again , in an equally remarkable fashion , passing early into the age of electronics and computers to become the undoubted economic capital of Italy . |
| 2 | In effect I reckon it will only take a slight upward change of gear and performances to become something special . |
| 3 | To progress , however , we need teachers and schools to become more conversant with the changes . |
| 4 | Whereas a few , like Embraer in Brazil , have succeeded in creating the resources and abilities to become global players , many others have stumbled . |
| 5 | Nowadays nurses are faced with complex situations , not only to take account of psychological and sociocultural factors during illness but also as promoters of health , and in helping patients and families to become involved in their own health care . |
| 6 | However , the framers of the declaration have not quite been answered ; for Thomas clearly thinks that God chooses certain things and persons to become sacramental signs because they provide the more suitable signification . |
| 7 | Initially encouraged as a way for both students and teachers to become financially independent , using their own efforts to earn extra money , the tide had many negative side-effects . |
| 8 | ALMA COGAN Gordon Burn Alma Cogan was a British plain Jane who reinvented herself via extravagant frocks and bouffants to become a massive Fifties singing star , dying in 1966 . |
| 9 | Bill Clinton , born dirt-poor in the tiny town of Hope , Arkansas , has overcome extraordinary odds and obstacles to become the nation 's 42nd president . |
| 10 | Androgyny , or what he calls the ‘ liberal supposition ’ that it is good for men and women to become more and more alike , creates in Mailer an aversion , ‘ a species of aesthetic nausea ’ ( pp. 134 — 5 ) . |
| 11 | Factory wages enabled young men and women to become economically independent of their families and some of them broke away completely , but most town dwellers maintained their family connections and were careful to preserve links not only with their immediate relatives but with a wider range of kin . |
| 12 | practical skills training for the farmer and employees to become familiar with new methods or equipment . |
| 13 | It has already been noted that interactions between infant and adult lead to the development of pre-verbal communicative exchanges in which adult and child are able to refer to objects and events ; successful joint reference makes it possible for these external objects and events to become ‘ topics ’ for further exchanges . |