Example sentences of "[to-vb] become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot had recounted in 1916 how in the excitement of the Australian aboriginal corroboree ‘ with every stimulant of noise , torchlight , strange masks , and drink , the savage seems to himself to have become a new being ’ . |
| 2 | The varied conditions over the week , biasing towards the lighter end , had given the sailors a good range without the Swedish walkover which seems to have become a regular feature of late . |
| 3 | The Hilary of once upon a time would have done it and taken great pleasure in confronting him , but the Hilary of now seemed to have become a spineless coward . |
| 4 | Alexander seemed to have become a decisive proponent of reform . |
| 5 | This seemed to him , and to me , to have become a great issue of conscience . |
| 6 | Bail conditions appear also to have become a standard practice in public order cases . |
| 7 | Although the king from time to time forbade ‘ puture ’ — the contributions in money and in kind exacted by the foresters — the levying of puture seems to have become a general practice at least by the fourteenth century . |
| 8 | It 's really about time we tackled Manuela , who seems to have become a recurring reference point in this story . |
| 9 | Industry seems to have become a driving force of strident activity , against which background human beings , the miners , are " like shadows " . |
| 10 | Her lips parted to tell him that it did , but hesitation seemed to have become a periodic tendency , afflicting her like hiccoughs . |
| 11 | The Povahs ' predicament appears to have become a common one , and of course there is sympathy , but one does wonder at the borrowings and the strategy upon which they were based . |
| 12 | This seemed to have become a permanent condition . |
| 13 | To the new generation of Romantics he appeared to have become a fossilized appendage of a backward-looking Establishment , which was already , in 1815 , in the process of restoring the eighteenth-century dynasties to the thrones of Europe , so that the French Revolution might never have taken place . |