Example sentences of "as [pers pn] have become " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says of her new career that it is ‘ partly choice , but I wanted to leave school-teaching anyway as I had become disillusioned ’ . |
| 2 | Since then we have taken steps to sharpen the focus on both our separate missions as we have become increasingly confident that our commercial work can prosper on its merits . |
| 3 | This question was supposed to be about the Baltic states , but as we have become hooked on gold , I think that we had better have the answer . |
| 4 | After the revolution , Romanians sat in their flats lit by a maximum of two 40-watt bulbs by order , usually wearing winter coats as they had become accustomed to years of sudden power cuts , and watched television pictures of their late rulers perusing menus to decide what to eat . |
| 5 | Given the choice now , he wished the old holidays could be taken again , that things were not as different as they had become . |
| 6 | The Burgess Shales , as they have become known , is proof to Gould that chance is more important than natural selection , since they all died off without issue whereas some minor offshoots of the extinct phenotypes , like the Crustaceans , went on to become important stepping-stones on the evolutionary ladder from which mammals finally emerged . |
| 7 | He notes that industrial societies , as they have become more affluent , have shifted employment first from the primary sector ( principally agriculture and the extractive industries ) to the secondary sector ( manufacturing ) , and then from the secondary sector into the tertiary ( service ) sector . |
| 8 | In many ways I was greatly relieved as it had become obvious to me that he was n't well . |
| 9 | The family home , dilapidated as it had become , was the last tangible talisman of their pride and , rather than relinquish it , the Chamfers leased the building and what remained of its land to an educational trust formed by an academically inclined cousin , retaining shooting rights , fishing rights and the right to have their female descendants educated gratis . |
| 10 | The jousting could not be started and the close combat was soon abandoned as it had become farcical , contestants falling down when they tried to wield their weapons . |
| 11 | The Department of Trade and Industry ( as it had become ) was responsible for giving exemption from the Moneylenders Acts , could intervene if HP companies were misbehaving , and operated the terms controls decided on by the Treasury . |
| 12 | Alexei remembered how Tulagai and Targoutai had fawned on Siban before Nogai had been elected Kha-Khan , and how they had voiced their support for Nogai , their own half-brother , as soon as it had become apparent that he had Burun 's vote . |
| 13 | As abruptly as it had become paralysed , her tongue was loosened . |
| 14 | Havel 's first journey abroad as President , to East and West Germany on Jan. 2 , represented a further break with tradition , as it had become customary for leaders of Soviet bloc countries to make their first foreign visit to Moscow . |
| 15 | Recent opinion polls had shown a dramatic decline in public support for the union , as it had become identified with government policy . |
| 16 | Patients who joined the study between 1981 and 1985 tended to have been treated with ursodeoxycholic acid as it had become widely available at that time and was considered to be the oral bile acid treatment of choice for gall stone dissolution . |
| 17 | And there were calls for the theatre to close as it had become a big drain on local council finances . |
| 18 | As it has become familiar over the years , the constant discord and the rhythmic complexities have ceased to shock . |
| 19 | Luckily , the picture has altered as it has become clear that in agriculturally wealthy areas , where farmers were often owner-occupiers , they lavished great attention on their houses . |
| 20 | The ‘ Affair of the Scarf ’ , as it has become known , has taken the French media by storm . |
| 21 | Changing work patterns , social habits and a growth of car ownership have affected all public transport , but the tramway has enhanced its tourist value as it has become unique . |
| 22 | The GSB , as it has become known , represents the total financial resources available in any one financial year to all schools covered by a scheme of delegation . |
| 23 | None the less , it is fair to say that this concept of home country authorisation or the ‘ single passport ’ ( as it has become known ) provides a potent tool for the establishment of a single market in financial services . |
| 24 | This measure may well have to be considered now ( as Washington is hinting ) , as it has become crystal-clear that the Bosnian war is being fomented by Milosevic and the extreme Serb leaders in Bosnia , and is primarily waged by the army . |
| 25 | As it has become more crowded , that reputation has been stretched to its limit . |
| 26 | Fusion in a beaker of water at room temperature : cold fusion or ‘ test-tube fusion ’ as it has become known . |
| 27 | Interest in the code has grown as it has become clear how swiftly the end of the cold war has begun to undermine NATO 's defence base . |
| 28 | Essentially this new regulation , or reregulation as it has become known , is the supervision of conflicts of interest and other risks that arise out of the process of deregulation . |
| 29 | The force of this NIMBY approach , as it has become known in England , should not be underestimated . |
| 30 | The family , he maintains , has not so much lost its functions as it has become more specialized in its functions . |