Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] become " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here and in the United States , most experts now agree that a doctor is not obliged either ethically or legally to continue treatment when it 's refused or is useless or has become a burden to the patient . |
| 2 | This means that the ‘ fact ’ that an individual has become an ‘ old person ’ , or suffers from regular illness or pain , or has become dependent upon others , whilst an important part of our understanding , is less important than how these facts make the individual feel . |
| 3 | The family has either lost many of its functions or has become more specialized in these functions . |
| 4 | when a partner is , or has become , of unsound mind ; |
| 5 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 6 | To some extent the technology people are to blame for being too optimistic but they realised that if they spelled out the true uncertainty ( even if they knew it ) there would have been no investment at all , In the end the project is abandoned or has become so expensive that it can never be profitable . |
| 7 | First , however , it needs to be ascertained whether this land is still owned by you , or has become the property of the airport authorities . |
| 8 | Example 3:1 Limitation on liability of original tenant ( 1 ) in this clause " the original tenant " means the said … only and this clause applies to any period after the term hereby granted ceases to be vested in the original tenant ( 2 ) if and so often as the tenant fails to pay the rent or any other sum properly due under this lease or commits any breach of covenant known to the landlord then the landlord shall forthwith notify the original tenant of that fact ( 3 ) the landlord shall not be entitled to recover from the original tenant any arrears of rent or other sums payable under this lease where the rent or other sums claimed became due earlier than three months before the original tenant was notified under sub-clause ( 2 ) above ( 4 ) the original tenant shall not be liable for any arrears of rent or other sum falling due after the date upon which this lease is expressed to expire or any breach of covenant committed after that date Example 3:2 Limitation on liability of tenant ( 1 ) In this clause ( a ) " the original tenant " means only ( b ) " the original assignee " means a person to whom the original tenant lawfully assigns this lease ( 2 ) upon a lawful assignment of this lease by the original tenant the original tenant ( a ) shall be released from further personal liability for any breach of any of the tenant 's obligations under this lease occurring after the date of the assignment but ( b ) shall guarantee performance by the original assignee of those obligations until the expiry or other determination of the term or ( if sooner ) a lawful assignment of this lease by the original assignee Example 3:3 Restriction on landlord 's ability to sue original tenant at any time after the lawful assignment of this lease by [ name of original tenant ] the landlord shall not be entitled to enforce against him the tenant 's obligations under this lease unless the landlord shall have first ( 1 ) recovered judgment against all other persons against whom the landlord is or has become entitled to enforce those obligations either as principal or surety and ( 2 ) attempted to levy excution upon such judgment and upon payment by [ name of original tenant ] of any sum due under such judgment the landlord shall assign to him the benefit of it Example 3:4 Definition clause making tenant liable for rent during holding over period " the term " includes not only the term expressed to be granted by this lease but also any period after the date on which the term is expressed to expire during which the tenancy continues under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Example 3:5 Clause making the tenant liable to pay rent and interim rent promptly to pay the rent reserved by this lease without any deduction or set-off and any rent substituted for it either as a result of a rent review under this lease or the agreement or determination of a rent payable by virtue of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s24A |
| 9 | Verderers might also be removed from office on a report by the Justice of the Forest to the Chancery that they were incapacitated by old age or sickness , or occupied with other duties , or were insufficiently qualified in that they held no land within the forest and did not dwell there , or had committed or connived at trespasses of vert or venison , or had become a paid officer of the forest , or , in one case , had ‘ entered the priestly order ’ . |
| 10 | Such gigantic creatures could hardly be living in some remote spot unknown to European science , so they had either changed into something else or had become extinct . |
| 11 | This implies that the exiles enjoyed a certain status in his court , but need not mean that he envisaged actively espousing their cause , or had become dissatisfied about Emma 's union with Cnut . |
| 12 | The granting or the withholding of that use depends on factors over which the voter has no control : lower-preference votes come into play only if higher-preference votes have proved surplus to the quotas of candidates who have been elected or have become useless to candidates who have been eliminated . |
| 13 | those who are unable to cook for themselves because they are disabled or frail or have become very forgetful ; |
| 14 | To the best of our knowledge and belief there are no events or new information which have occurred or have become known subsequent to [ date of last audited financial statements ] that would reasonably necessitate adjustments to the Memorandum . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | SUPPLEMENTARY benefit beckons for seven fillies today in Newmarket 's Cheveley Park Stakes , the early 1,000 Guineas trial that has become more valuable than the Classic itself . |
| 17 | The final scene , with its tear-jerking hospital-bed supplications for forgiveness , is neither more nor less than the ‘ I love you ’ , ‘ I love you too Momma ’ curtain-line that has become mandatory in a thousand soap operas . |
| 18 | Surprisingly , the turning point that saw a struggling business transformed into a trendsetting group that has become a household name can be traced back to a Dutch merchant banker , who persuaded Conran to widen his horizons . |
| 19 | Engels argued , and this is a fundamental aspect of his work that has become obscured in the discussion over whether there ever were such things as primitive promiscuity or group marriage , against those who asserted that monogamous marriage and the type of family that was associated with it was a universally valid ideal of man , irrespective of social or cultural context . |
| 20 | Clearly , behind the appeals for calm has been the fear that the army is now threatened by disintegration , something that has become evident in increasingly frank discussions . |
| 21 | I refer to opera-going : something that has become not merely trendy but deep-rootedly popular . |
| 22 | This is despite the fact that its acreage of farmland is about the same as that of the United States , a nation that has become the world 's greatest grain exporter . |
| 23 | Such disdain for something that has become almost universal in the first-class game clearly helps in his psychological battle with the bowlers ; disdain is , in fact , an important part of his armoury , combining with his might and skill to cement his authority . |
| 24 | ECCENTRIC : wander through reconstructed rooms modelled on Tintin cartoons at the Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée , 20 Rue des Sables , a restored art-nouveau department store that has become Brussels 's best-loved museum . |
| 25 | Happiness is an emotional response that has become built into us and the horse for doing the right thing biologically . |
| 26 | Coventry 0 , Arsenal 1 KEVIN CAMPBELL displayed the brand of finishing that has become his hallmark , to take Arsenal into fourth place and leave Coventry facing relegation worries , writes David Horridge . |
| 27 | One of the latter is a book that has become a favourite in the two years since it first appeared in hardback form . |
| 28 | It is this cause and effect relationship that has become quite lost in respect of ionic strength , precisely because the correlation at low concentration is so seductively good . |
| 29 | One of its most powerful adversaries is Fredric Jameson who suggests postmodernism is ‘ an alarming and pathological symptom of a society that has become incapable of dealing with time and history ’ ( in Foster 1983 : 117 ) . |
| 30 | Then Protagoras went further in saying that ‘ man is the measure of things ’ , a saying that has become a secular creed for modern times . |