"become" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- During that time, the lifeboats manned by loyal personnel had become inoperable, as had all communication equipment aboard them.
- As a result of this shaft becoming inoperable, miners were brought up using the production shaft, after changing out the skips for a cage.
- In accordance with instructions in every owner's manual, a driver must turn the air-conditioner off to keep the car from overheating and becoming inoperable.
- So far Tiff had been unable to locate any planets, since some of his most important navigation instruments, especially the long distance rangefinder, had become inoperable.
- As they had expected, the locking mechanism had indeed become inoperable.
- Julius Caesar realised that the system had become inoperable, so he effected drastic changes in the year of his third consulship.
- Rose Cipollone died on October 24, 1984, after her lung cancer had spread and become inoperable.
- The officers chased the car for more than a mile before it struck the curb and became inoperable.
- Unfortunately, however, some of them had become sites for cancerous growths and they had become inoperable.
- The wood warped, and became inoperable some time in the late 1960s.
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