Example sentences of "but it [verb] become " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the Government was reluctant to interfere , but it had become aware of ‘ widespread detestation in Parliament ’ of some trends in the popular press . |
| 2 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 3 | She did n't reject it , but it had become irrelevant , its comfort only a candle which served fitfully to illumine the dark . |
| 4 | But it had become impossible for Mr Major to plod on with the same soiled team . |
| 5 | Knights too were readily identifiable , but it had become imperative to make provision also for the many untitled men whose wealth was as great or even greater . |
| 6 | The idea of a woman who would save him was not new , but it had become real , it was no longer fantasy . |
| 7 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 8 | I had been preoccupied with the alchemical vision for some time , but it had become words , ideas , a mere prejudice in favour of the angels , if you like . |
| 9 | But it had become like a hunger : his whole being seemed empty when he was out of her presence . |
| 10 | The bond which assures the existence of the individual , and provides him with his basic loyalties to his father and brothers and cousins , is also the bond which assures the cohesion of the nations , and then of the world , ‘ but it does become weaker as the numbers become greater ’ . |
| 11 | This does not matter too much for the younger pupils , since they draw readily and without inhibition , but it does become an issue with slightly older children . |
| 12 | They were not in fact the same thing — they were two separate things — and up until this point , it seemed like it was all one thing — that MainMan and David were the same — but it began to become apparent that they were n't . |
| 13 | Its impact could probably have been even greater but it ceased to become available to students by 1980 and this was unfortunate when many much less meritorious texts have soldiered on ! |
| 14 | But it did become something very different at the end , when Freddie went . |
| 15 | Filipinos have not demonstrated in the streets , but it has become increasingly clear they want Ferdinand Marcos , the former Philippine president who died in exile in Hawaii last week , to be allowed home for burial . |
| 16 | Nigel Lawson may have won his prime minister the 1987 election , but it has become ever more clear that he let his boom run on too long and too strong thereafter . |
| 17 | ‘ But it has become a big thing now , has n't it ? ’ he added with evident bewilderment . |
| 18 | It is no more than the action of clashing their teeth together as if sinking them into the neck of the prey , in the specialized killing bite of the cat , but it has become a sound signal that many observers have commented on . |
| 19 | But it has become difficult to convince those hypochondriacs who also happen to be cat owners that there is no danger . |
| 20 | But it has become one of the big post-war economic success stories , with one of the world 's most open trading systems and a business environment not far behind Switzerland , Japan and west Germany . |
| 21 | ‘ I have been leading scorer at Boro for five out of the last seven seasons — but it has become a way of life to be talked about as the player who is leaving or out of the team . |
| 22 | We have already seen this statement in St John Ackers ' postscript to the 1890 Education Act , but it has become popular again ( Van Uden , 1981 ) . |
| 23 | It has , overall , captured less big-name , big-salary work than Russell Reynolds , but it has become well known for the efficient and speedy handling of a wide range of assignments within its pioneering structure of speciality divisions . |
| 24 | About 60 years ago , one of the cuckoo 's main hosts was the Siberian meadow bunting , but it has become very good at recognising and rejecting the cuckoo 's eggs , despite the fact that they 're very similar to its own . |
| 25 | Much work has been undertaken in special ad hoc policy reviews and in long-term studies , but it has become increasingly clear that the public expenditure survey system should be further strengthened . |
| 26 | Yes , this has always been a problem , but it has become worse recently , I am afraid , because of the people who have been made redundant and who have come back from Germany . |
| 27 | He has resisted attempts to remove him from the Maine Road board in the past , but it has become clear that Lee 's intervention provided much greater pressure on him to step aside . |
| 28 | His mother , Mrs Noelyne Parry , said yesterday : ‘ The show flopped in London but it has become something of a cult in America and was a rave success on Broadway . |
| 29 | But it has become increasingly confined to manual staff other than footplate , and there has been a trend towards sectional , occupationally-based unionism in BR ( Streeck et al. |
| 30 | But it has become very apparent that our strengths and skills , especially in R&T , are valuable elsewhere in the Group — and , of course , vice versa . |