Example sentences of "have become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like any other part of the body it may have become weak through disuse , but it is a fact that the only people who do not have the ability to ‘ see ’ clearly in their minds are those who were born blind . |
| 2 | It is also possible that Mercury formed heterogeneously , in which case it need never have become hot enough to differentiate , though it is then more difficult to account for any widespread crater erasure . |
| 3 | Also check you damp proof course : if it has been breached by soil , or a new patio being built above it , it may have become ineffective . |
| 4 | To this gloss on the idea that even a thief should have to screw his courage to the sticking-place , Johnson adds the argument that if all else he had written were lost , Shakespeare should have become immortal for the way in which he shows Macbeth ‘ distinguishing true from false fortitude in a line and a half ’ : In Johnson 's footsteps , these roads across Scotland 's shoulder become Shakespeare country . |
| 5 | After David had examined the patient he straightened up and said , ‘ I 'm going to refer you to an eye specialist at the hospital as I 'm afraid the metal particle may have become embedded and caused some damage . |
| 6 | That if the rent hereby reserved or any part thereof shall remain unpaid for twenty-one days after the same shall have become due ( whether formally demanded or not ) or if any covenant on the part of the Tenant herein contained shall not be performed or observed or if the Tenant shall become bankrupt or enter into any composition with his creditors it shall be lawful for the Landlord to re-enter upon the premises or any point thereof in the name of the whole and thereupon this demise shall absolutely determine . |
| 7 | Then they would have entered the conical shadow cast by the moon , and the stars would have become visible again for a brief time before the Lift sank beneath the surface itself and came to a standstill , its massive kinetic energy somehow conducted away from the lower terminus and stored in a way that Alex Bannen would have killed to learn . |
| 8 | Would streptomycin have become available if the example of penicillin had not given impetus to its investigation ? |
| 9 | A weaker man might have become debauched ( as many kings of that time certainly did ) yet Charles clearly never allowed his vital energies to weaken his will . |
| 10 | L/Cpl Edwards had been shot through the cheek and would have become unconscious immediately and died shortly afterwards , said consultant pathologist Dr Roger Williams . |
| 11 | The Darlington inquest heard Mr Still , of Newholme Estate , Station Town , Wingate , died from cardio-respiratory failure and he would have become unconscious soon after impact . |
| 12 | If Vance had been able to convince 17 Politburo members that a far-reaching restructuring of strategic forces was in the Soviet interest , this would have become Soviet policy . |
| 13 | The moor seemed more his own when it was unpeopled , so that his childhood fantasy might have become real and he be the lord of this wild country . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The stars will have become black holes . |
| 16 | She will have become one of that great army of ‘ daughters at home ’ who have to fight hard to establish an identity for themselves other than that of ‘ head cook and bottle washer ’ . |
| 17 | But for his heart problems , which in his case are hereditary , Ashe , the first black male to win the Wimbledon singles title , might easily have become one of America 's leading politicians by now . |
| 18 | François Daulte 's catalogue of the oil paintings of Frédéric Bazille , the most recent volume in the distinguished series of monographs of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French masters published by the Bibliothèque des Arts , deals with the promising talent of a young artist who might have become one of the great figure painters of his generation , had he not died in the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 , at the age of twenty-nine . |
| 19 | If in fact she had proceeded along a more orthodox path , she could have become one of the great political women of our time . |
| 20 | Whether or not he would eventually have become chief executive is academic : the move to Provincial seems to have met a need to apply what is generally considered to be the sharp mind and highly effective set of skills of this simultaneously affable and well-organised character to a more absorbing challenge . |
| 21 | Mrs Heatherton may well have become strange . |
| 22 | It looked like another lysozyme , and , after 6 years with little progress , that subject may have become tedious . |
| 23 | Resist being served from a salame where all the casing has already been removed — the meat may have become dry and tough during storage . |
| 24 | It may have become apparent to the counsellor that counsellees are ‘ locked ’ into feelings which are affecting the way they are leading their lives , but are apparently more content to hold on to the feelings than to resolve the difficulties which arise from them . |
| 25 | One would have thought that a deep incompatibility should have become apparent to them between what they believed about the equality of human beings and the misogynist , or at least highly patriarchal , nature of this myth . |
| 26 | This submission appears to me to suggest a way of making more effective proceedings in Parliament by allowing the court to consider what has been said in Parliament as an aid to resolving an ambiguity which may well have become apparent only as a result of the attempt to apply the enacted words to a particular case . |
| 27 | It will by now have become apparent that Brooke-Rose shifts her attention increasingly toward language over the course of her oeuvre . |
| 28 | It should have become apparent to the observant reader that there are marked inconsistencies between the theory of finance as described in chapter 1 and the basis of strategic analysis as described in chapter 4 . |
| 29 | A : I suppose we could have one news bulletin a month , by which time what was important and what was not would have become apparent . |
| 30 | She must finally have become bored with school . |