Example sentences of "[noun sg] becomes the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typology becomes the primary means of identifying cultures and of dating them . |
| 2 | The new TI becomes the second largest engineering firm in the UK and one of the biggest in Europe |
| 3 | If the houses are bought by the council then the occupants remain secure tenants , but if a private landlord or a housing association becomes the new owner then occupants become assured tenants . |
| 4 | On this occasion , however , the hunter becomes the hunted . |
| 5 | If this religion becomes the powerful complement to lawfully elected government , which would be a very desirable development , then those decisions would settle many controversial issues which at present are successfully resolved by neither statute-law , nor , to the slightest degree by a respected and accepted moral code . |
| 6 | The grotesque becomes the sublime in Peter Howson 's paintings . |
| 7 | The grotesque becomes the sublime in Peter Howson 's paintings . |
| 8 | The all too common crash becomes the daily round . |
| 9 | Hence , the powerful manager at work becomes the powerless driver of a vehicle caught in a traffic jam . |
| 10 | If the prognosis for the patient , though initially favourable , becomes poor , then the question becomes the same as that already considered , for how much longer treatment must be given . |
| 11 | Moreover , the depreciation debate will be ‘ dusted off ’ after years of shelf-life and revisited in more depth as depreciation becomes the major cost . |
| 12 | In ultra-sophisticated black , the Moffat Discovery becomes the high-tech feature in the very latest kitchen designs . |
| 13 | The postman becomes the Daily Dread . |
| 14 | So clearly in that light I would say that rail and bus need to be bracketed together so a an ability to erm serve the new settlement by public transport becomes the key consideration . |
| 15 | In Juliet Mitchell 's account sexual difference becomes the archetypal split , and castration its symbol : |
| 16 | As medical care improves , a much more ‘ beehive ’ shaped profile becomes the standard pattern with death being fairly unlikely before the age of about 60 , at which point the remaining scourges of cancer and heart disease maintain the pyramid form for the older age groups . |
| 17 | Goals espoused by WHO/HFA may have numbed our consciousness but for many health workers in the Philippines , despite the change in government , a health initiative becomes the front line in a struggle some do not survive . |
| 18 | On rare occasions the tables are totally reversed and the husband becomes the abused . |
| 19 | The marriage relationship takes primacy , so that one 's spouse becomes the first source of support for married people . |
| 20 | In this way glycine becomes the first amino acid in the protein , being carried into position on the ribosome assembly line by its tRNA . |
| 21 | The leader becomes the Prime Minister and forms a government by choosing the Cabinet from amongst party colleagues in the Commons and in the Lords . |
| 22 | The lifelong speciality of handling the same tool becomes the lifelong speciality of serving the same machine … . |
| 23 | The RAF officer who was so noble in conflict becomes the devious villain in Cage of Gold ( 1950 ) . |
| 24 | Any system in which adaptation becomes the sole determinant of structure will be incompatible with the idea that Nature has been created in accordance with a harmonious or regularly structured grid of relationships . |
| 25 | Then the test of any technique you use with video becomes the same as the test of anything else you do — does it help the achievement of your objectives ? |
| 26 | Possession is preeminently the form in which the other becomes the same , by becoming mine . |
| 27 | Whether we can do this depends upon the degree to which social conscience becomes the driving force in a national life . |
| 28 | If the cake has not been covered with marzipan , make sure that you invert the cake so that the smooth underside becomes the flat top surface of the finished cake . |
| 29 | But as nuclear parity becomes the first order of the day and conventional power projection capabilities expand , Soviet departures from Western attitudes in the realm of war become more visible and telling . |
| 30 | In one model , illustrated by Bexley above and discussed in Onyett ( 1991 ) care management and care programming are functionally interchangeable and care programming becomes the mental health version of care management . |