She became closer to her own mother by letter over the decades.

But like it or not, that's what she had become by her relationship with Richard.

Association football has become by far the most popular sport in the country.

In a private ceremony, a week earlier, she had become by law what blood nor marriage could make her.

The person becomes what he or she can become by practice of the virtues.

What would she become by the time her stint was done?

Parents have become more involved in running their children's lives, even by remote control when the kids are away at summer camp.

"Of course, everybody's become poor by the time we see them."

The waiting went on for what became by anyone's standards a long time.

In the case of each play, a woman becomes by far the dominant figure.