Example sentences of "[pers pn] have become " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his son are largely responsible for the countless impressions of Rembrandt 's graphic works , repeatedly reworking the plates so that Rembrandt 's authorship of them has become something of an ethical dilemma . |
| 2 | We can for instance , endlessly discuss the need to maintain and reinforce brands , now that the service promise bound up with them has become so important . |
| 3 | To put it into some form of perspective it is perhaps worth reviewing the whole issue of how fonts get displayed on a computer screen and why the method chosen to display them has become so important . |
| 4 | I was neither Jew nor English nor white , or even a proper Indian or a proper Pakistani ; but my travels through Europe and stay in the USA and my near acceptance there as a living entity capable of suffering pain and enjoying pleasure had temporarily given me a sort of quasi-human status , further aggravated by those willing to be my sexual partners ; I had become spoilt and pampered . |
| 5 | ‘ I had become a strong swimmer mainly to conquer fear . ’ |
| 6 | Very enjoyable indeed , after the very rough fare that I had become used to living in the slit trench . |
| 7 | I had become a good and conscientious boy . |
| 8 | By the end of my stay in health , I had become convinced that it would be possible to create a health commission with its own chief executive or chairman . |
| 9 | Without noticing it , while I was looking the other way , I had become old ; so old that I was an ‘ old lady ’ , known as such at the village school . |
| 10 | I had become more and more interested in the business world , going back to work at the bank in Newcastle during my vacations , so I was looking for a general business career . ’ |
| 11 | I had become as strong as my Dad . |
| 12 | I had become new . |
| 13 | I thought I had become used to being alone , and to the idea that I would always be alone , but I was wrong . |
| 14 | I had become friendly with Vivien Fish , whose father was Churchill 's dentist . |
| 15 | i was amazed at how quickly and easily I fell back into the old routine , and my fears that I had become brain-dead during my months at home turned out to be unfounded . |
| 16 | I told him how uneasy I had become when I was approached or touched by anyone . |
| 17 | As so often occurs in these situations , I had become blind to the obvious — that is , until my pondering over the implications of Miss Kenton 's letter finally opened my eyes to the simple truth : that these small errors of recent months have derived from nothing more sinister than a faulty staff plan . |
| 18 | I had become fond of Longfellow 's Saga of King Olaf : fond of it in a casual , shallow way for its story and its vigorous rhythms . |
| 19 | I had become slack . |
| 20 | I had become engaged to Leading Seaman Arthur Saunders RNVR who was serving in HMS Reading , a fourstacker loaned to us under the lease-lend arrangements . |
| 21 | At first I was too busy writing research reports and later on I had become completely engrossed in purely human studies . |
| 22 | The reason why I joined the original class was that I had become intrigued by what I had heard and read about the Technique and I thought it might help prevent a second hip operation . |
| 23 | I had become withdrawn and at times very depressed which , of course , had repercussions on my family . |
| 24 | Life at home was good , I had become used to living with my parents , and gradually I integrated at school . |
| 25 | I missed the rest of her words , for I had become aware of the danger confronting me . |
| 26 | For just a short time I had become a part of the village community on a day that ‘ introduces everybody to everybody else ’ . |
| 27 | I had become a Christian when leaving Oxford University through reading the Bible and being convinced that the New Testament documents were reliable . |
| 28 | As a nurse I knew it was unhealthy to be so overweight and I felt extremely unhappy with what I had become . |
| 29 | In his French interview , Cantona said of his time at Leeds : ‘ I had become boss of the team , and manager Howard Wilkinson told me so . |
| 30 | But then I had become overly enthusiastic . |