Example sentences of "have become " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will by now have become evident that this book takes an unorthodox approach to art criticism . |
| 2 | Why should France have become the focal center of painting and sculpture at this particular time ? |
| 3 | Naipaul 's readers could well have become inclined to ask why it is that his novels seem to say that there is nothing to be done in , or with , the countries of their concern . |
| 4 | The emergence of a new pro-capitalist party in the South from the end of 1985 , the Progressive Democratic Party , might show the extent to which political divisions based on the treaty and within the nationalist component of hegemony may have become problematic , to be partially replaced by an even more explicit concern with increasing the popular wealth and prosperity . |
| 5 | If I had elected to stay there , I probably would not have become homeless five years later . |
| 6 | By then you will have become tuned in to the driving and will be better able to judge if it is safe to go a little faster . |
| 7 | All too often the pilot has a plan in his mind and sticks to it even when it should have become obvious that the situation has changed and his plan is no longer feasible . |
| 8 | Chaos now seemed poised to threaten the system from inside and without , and it is almost inevitable that the term ‘ civvy ’ should have become a derogatory reference . |
| 9 | They might have become becalmed there as their heads ballooned with the drink but the Duke told his piper to rouse their feet with a steady march , ‘ Murdo Mackenzie of Torridon ’ , and they headed off downstream towards Grandtully past the standing stone , the quiet watcher , while damp black shadow massed in the river-channel as though the night came from there . |
| 10 | Sometimes a tool was ground after a breakage or similar accident , and the resulting shape would allow a usage not previously possible , and may even have become a treasured ‘ special ’ . |
| 11 | The locomotive fleet may have become slimmer and generally older , but it still ended the decade in better overall shape thanks to this revised policy ; new maintenance procedures , and heavy expenditure on refurbishment of key types , also helped . |
| 12 | I could have become fond of the bearded man even though he was the clumsiest chap I knew . |
| 13 | Four times the England No. 1 had game points , and had he secured one of them , it could have become interesting . |
| 14 | In short , the ration book would have become a national institution like the council house . |
| 15 | It would need a profound belief in providence to make one refrain from wondering why a group of foggy islands off Europe 's north-western shores , populated beyond the means of subsistence that the islands could provide , endowed with no great natural assets outside the coalfields , should have become both the centre of a world empire and a possible arbiter of European rivalries . |
| 16 | Curzon was wont to complain , and with justice , that Chamberiain ‘ forgot all about India when he launched his scheme ’ , and whimsically mused on ‘ what would have become of him and us if he had ever visited India … |
| 17 | The difficulty here is best demonstrated when Honderich , analyzing the notion that Conservatism is a ‘ defence of the familiar ’ , argues that if this were central to Conservatism ‘ we should have a mystery on our hands , the mystery of how an egregious idiocy could have become a large political tradition ’ . |
| 18 | Once Phoebe had started playing chess regularly again she realised she could probably have become considerably better than him quite quickly , but she did not want that enough to work on it . |
| 19 | Had Lord Mountbatten lived , there is a good chance that Diana Spencer would not have become Princess of Wales . |
| 20 | Had Mountbatten lived , Diana may never have become Princess of Wales |
| 21 | She may have become an international superstar , wined and dined with kings and presidents , prima ballerinas , film idols , pop legends and sporting heroes ; she may be ferried around in motorcades and private yachts and planes ; and she may be given priceless jewels to wear . |
| 22 | It 's unbelievable how shoddily made most things have become and how expensive , too . |
| 23 | Tiny Rowland may have become a bore with his obsession over DTI 's failure to publish the report on the House of Fraser — but on this occasion he is on the side of the Gods . |
| 24 | Mr Ceausescu may have become somewhat more dictatorial in the past decade , but it is not a qualitative change . |
| 25 | I 'm not saying he would n't have become one without MainMan , but when you talk about MainMan , you have to be so definite — which part of MainMan and when . |
| 26 | Food may not have become a weapon , but the failure of Soviet agriculture to meet its peoples ' demands was a wound that contributed to the collapse of Soviet power in the second half of the 1980s . |
| 27 | If one had to make a guess , it is that within another ten years or so ‘ environment ’ will have become a somewhat passé term , rather as ‘ ecological ’ has , simply because of its insufficiency as a generic description ; a term which links the preservation of rural landscapes in Europe to the fate of millions in Bangladesh obviously has problems of definition . |
| 28 | Resist being served from a salame where all the casing has already been removed — the meat may have become dry and tough during storage . |
| 29 | Almost 80 per cent of the female seals in the Baltic are known to be sterile , primarily as a result of PCB poisoning , and by the year 2000 , grey seals in the Baltic may well have become extinct . |
| 30 | But without Mr Castro , Cuba and its 10m fairly poor people could never have become the nuisance whose finger excitable types discerned in pies all round the globe . |