Example sentences of "become a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Klima may perhaps be a common name in Czechoslovakia , and Kundera has become a common name in the conversation of Western readers , who are drawn to these reciprocal concerns of his . |
| 2 | Fortunately for us both , Dulcie had become a star both in theatre and films . |
| 3 | 1952 solution was adopted because it reflected what had become a more theologically certain position on the matter . |
| 4 | His book , 30 Ans du Cinema Americain has become a seminal text for cinephiles everywhere . |
| 5 | By 1946 , Ghatak had become a Marxist activist , this was the year that the communal rioting leading up to Partition began in earnest . |
| 6 | Dorothy , I realized , had become a problem , and I resented that . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Her bedroom had become a nest . |
| 9 | The observer had become a diagnostician ; he was fast becoming a prophet . |
| 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 | In 1984–5 the sector returned a loss of £157million ; in one of the most dramatic business turnrounds in recent years this has become a £24million profit in 1988–9 . |
| 12 | By 1983 the SLOA Pullman Scenic Land Cruise had become a series of oneand two-day charter trains with overnight hotel accommodation , embracing a variety of destinations — but most significantly , the Scottish rail routes to Mallaig , Oban , Inverness and Kyle of Lochalsh . |
| 13 | Today they had become a real sun-trap and it was a relief to swop the white , rocky desert for the subdued greens and browns of heather and grass which sweep across The Allotment up towards Simon Fell , its flanks scarred by the pale slash of Ingleborough 's eastern approach track . |
| 14 | Changing a garage door , they say , has become a simple home improvement which can result in ongoing maintenance simplicity . |
| 15 | But if he has , I do n't think it follows that Fathers and Children has become a bad book in his eyes , but rather , it is now not all that good . |
| 16 | Reasons are that the PC has become the conventional engineering tool ; most DSP applications programs run under ms-dos ; hardware interfacing of target DSP boards to the PC has become a standard practice , and the PC represents a low cost entry point into the field of DSP development . |
| 17 | The insistence on the supremacy of the political has become a cliché of recent thinking . |
| 18 | If so , this is yet one more of the paradoxes attending this remarkable figure , who , disavowing mastery has become a Master , and who undermines his meanings in advancing them . |
| 19 | Silk Slippers enabled Sangster — slowly-sinking in the super league of owners — to regain a foothold by wearing down the red-hot favourite , Moon Cactus , owned ironically by Sheikh Mohammed , in the dying strides of an event that has become a fertile proving ground for Classic fillies . |
| 20 | Without it , she has become a virtual prisoner in her own home ; she is ruled by the clock and the hours worked by her local authority helpers . |
| 21 | The motorway was never built , but Byker has become a model of how to build low-cost housing on a large , yet humane scale . |
| 22 | Now their country has become a prison which they can only leave with special permission — a situation which is guaranteed to fuel bitterness and resentment against the hardline regime . |
| 23 | To an extent , the anger is to be expected from a newspaper which has become a strident mouthpiece of conservative elements in the Kremlin leadership . |
| 24 | In a profession often noted for self-promotion and expediency she had become a trusted friend , hostess and shoulder to lean on for many . |
| 25 | What has become a round of South African diplomacy in London began earlier this year when FW de Klerk visited London as President-in-waiting . |
| 26 | Then , at the beginning of this week , the ANC and a group of South African academics and businessmen chose London as the scene of the latest in the series of black-white encounters which have become a regular feature of South African political life , while Mrs Thatcher gave interviews to four leading black journalists . |
| 27 | Indeed , the law has become a convenient shield for politicians . |
| 28 | ‘ We can not do it because Gramm-Rudman-Hollings will not let us ’ has become a familiar refrain . |
| 29 | To post-war generations , the deli has become a way to stay connected , through the taste buds with their roots . |
| 30 | The genius of the Council of Chalcedon , in saying that Jesus is one person in both divine and human natures , was that it denied that the incarnation implied anything about the nature of God ( the meaning of ‘ God ’ ) , asserting simply that God , the mystery of Creation , is become a human being — not a divine kind of human being but a human kind of human being . |