Example sentences of "have become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The system of production may have become international and concentrated . |
| 32 | Had his depression lasted much longer he would have become agoraphobic . |
| 33 | Ashe , now 49 , grew up in the segregated American South of the 1950's , making it wholly appropriate that he should have become such a dedicated campaigner for equal rights all round the world . |
| 34 | Why motherhood should have become such an obsession she could not imagine , but she did understand that whatever was the matter with her was contributing to her misery . |
| 35 | This book is particularly useful as a reminder of areas where the reader may have become rusty , and as an update of the very good ongoing R&D work in the field of corrosion inhibition . |
| 36 | Many activists in Paisley 's Protestant Unionist Party insist that they would never have become involved in politics if there had remained one reliable traditional unionist party . |
| 37 | Hebrew letters might , therefore , have undergone differentiation for the former group and would certainly have become involved in some associations . |
| 38 | But because it already occupied the existing space for electoral politics , the layer of educated and professional younger community leaders who might have become involved in politics was atomised . |
| 39 | ‘ I 'm sorry you should have become involved in this , Charlie . |
| 40 | The flock are unlikely to have been as completely innocent as the latter suggests , and their guilt may well have had a secular aspect , for it might be doubted whether Cnut would have become involved with spiritual shortcomings . |
| 41 | At Oxford Crown Court today Judge Harold Wilson said : ’ What troubles me is that there is no reason why police should n't have become involved in this in 1990 . |
| 42 | Many readers of this book will have become involved with numbers in the belief that they are ‘ no good at English ’ . |
| 43 | If a creditor is owed a debt not payable at the date of the bankruptcy order , he may nonetheless prove for the same ( r 6.114 ) but subject to an adjustment of his dividend where payment of dividend is made before the time when the debt would have become payable . |
| 44 | The member who brought this matter to our notice stated that had he known about this in one particular case , a capital gains tax assessment due by a client would not have become payable in consequence of the option available to pay at one-half the taxpayer 's rate of income tax . |
| 45 | If the shareholders subsequently liquidate the vendor company , there will be a capital distribution within s122 TCGA 1992 , so an additional " layer " of tax will have become payable . |
| 46 | The expression " capital sum " does not include any sum which could not have become payable to the settlor except in one of the events specified in the proviso to TA 1988 , s673(3) ( these relate to bankruptcy , assignment , marriage and death under the age of 25 ) . |
| 47 | Some old plants which would otherwise have remained profitable as a result of faster or more effective working would have become unprofitable as a result of these productivity gains not being achieved . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | In evaluating the Copernican system , for example , mathematical criteria should take precedence over interpretations of Scripture , which may have become normative but only through ignorance . |
| 50 | Furthermore , evidence was described to support their contention that the events were of formative importance , and were not merely serving to trigger depression in a woman who would shortly have become depressed anyway . |
| 51 | Workers had an interest in producing goods and higher management knew about production — how else could they have become higher management ? — and so if the two got together all the crises would be resolved . |
| 52 | A final point on this type of clause : if what is regarded as an initially reasonable figure is inserted in standard conditions and remains unchanged for a number of years it may well have become unreasonable through the impact of inflation , either in an absolute sense , or because average contract values have increased . |
| 53 | The accompanying curves showing maturity evolution for each formation with time ( Fig. 5 — right-hand diagram ) indicate that Westphalian A and B source rocks would have become gas-generative over the period mid Cretaceous to mid Oligocene . |
| 54 | They may not have become skilled in using aids to vision such as magnifiers or telescopic aids , or the material that they need to read may be finely or densely printed , visually complex , or difficult to decipher . |
| 55 | Goods that had been imported from the Continent may then have become powerful social tools by their redistribution through the social system , and in this way they form part of the subject of internal exchange . |
| 56 | The commission of array authorizing Rivers to raise men in the marches , for instance , would have become valueless once it became known that he was out of favour . |
| 57 | The commission of array authorizing Rivers to raise men in the marches , for instance , would have become valueless once it became known that he was out of favour . |
| 58 | If the machine was switched on , the entire metal bodywork would have become live , seriously injuring , possibly even killing the user . |
| 59 | And if no Government could do so , then the necessary foundation to government by consent of the governed would crumble and , sooner or later , the country would have become unmanageable as an authentic democracy . |
| 60 | Their habitations would be huts , which they would have to build themselves , in desert land away from the few cities ; their diet would be healthy and sustaining but it would be monotonous , and they would have to do without delicacies which many of them might have become used to in the Diaspora . |