Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] becomes [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his inaugural speech to the congress on Dec. 2 the DPK leader , Masoud Barzani , said that " with the holding of the 10th congress our belief in victory through an armed struggle becomes stronger " . |
| 2 | If the White Welsh is crossed to black or red animals and the offspring are also crossed to black or red , the dark extreme of the colour-pointed cline becomes evident and the coats are colour-sided or linebacked . |
| 3 | In practice , of course , such com- prehensiveness becomes impossible , and this provides fertile ground for opportunism or for sellers to try to over-protect themselves against risk which drives up prices . |
| 4 | Mayflies and several varieties of caddis disappear from acid streams , and the freshwater shrimp becomes scarce in soft water or below pH 5.7 . |
| 5 | Even without the crusher building transformation , Mr Owen believes it is still possible to develop the area along more commercial lines if public money becomes available or the private sector shows any interest . |
| 6 | Additionally it can become something they look forward to themselves as they begin to lose their faculties and the effort of daily living becomes burdensome . |
| 7 | If the latter is not likely to be a permanent feature , machinery for achieving some long-term pay agreements in the public sector becomes important for achieving efficient control ( Heald , 1983 ) . |
| 8 | As women mature , their outward appearance becomes more and more strongly related to character . |
| 9 | Have you remarked , where a fast-flowing stream comes to a little fall , how the racing water becomes glassy smooth and under it the long fine threads of the water-weed are drawn along in its still-seeming race , trembling a little , but stretched out in the flow ? |
| 10 | Foreign policy becomes less to do with ensuring the survival of the state , and more to do with managing an environment composed of newly politicized areas and a variety of actors . |
| 11 | With a single currency , a common defence and foreign policy becomes inevitable and inexorable . |
| 12 | The fundamental change is conceived of in terms of the ‘ crisis of hegemony ’ that is experienced by the modern capitalist state when the basis of its cultural authority becomes contested . |
| 13 | Disuse comes about if there is a much more attractive competing pattern or if the old pattern becomes inconvenient , tiresome or too much bother . |
| 14 | If the sexual thwarting becomes acute enough , some cats will even masturbate or attempt to mate with inanimate objects . |
| 15 | Assuming a free choice becomes possible , it is difficult to foresee any great increase in the numbers of limited partnerships . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's a real chance that if the banks really push the price high , public spending becomes such that it would allow Mr John MacGregor , the education secretary , to reopen the whole argument . ’ |
| 17 | Facts : A commercial bank becomes affiliated with a securities firm . |
| 18 | The syntactic and semantic components must select from word hypotheses that are constantly changing their status or score as more acoustic information becomes available . |
| 19 | Hawkes 's polemical purpose becomes more and more apparent as the book develops : it is to undermine , not only established literary study , but liberal humanism itself . |
| 20 | Social class becomes significant when we realise that patterns of recruitment are not distributed randomly from all social strata : managerial and education , motivation , and personality variables , but this is not so significant that social background can be altogether dismissed as a relevant factor in work behaviour . |
| 21 | Unsettled weather becomes infrequent in Greece , and rare in Turkey , but winds are still fitful . |
| 22 | In the context of a thorough-going twentieth-century challenge to religious belief , it is easy to see how this kind of retreat to a self-contained theism becomes attractive . |
| 23 | Often the surviving parent becomes depressed , the family may break up and there may be social and economic privation ( Parkes , 1972 ) . |
| 24 | The yachts are slowing down as they approach Fremantle and the effect of the high-pressure zone becomes apparent . |
| 25 | The yachts are slowing down as they approach Fremantle and the effect of the high-pressure zone becomes apparent . |
| 26 | As the city state continues to develop , private ownership becomes more and more concentrated in the hands of some of the citizens , but the division this give rise to does not lead to the formation of classes among the freemen because they remain united against the slaves . |
| 27 | Lengthier ones such as those in support of specific discovery are not suited and the standard part becomes little more than the top and tail . |
| 28 | They can be used purely as play material and indeed that is the way to introduce them to children so that each individual child becomes familiar with the parts of the apparatus and the relationships between the parts . |
| 29 | When personal consumption becomes static or declines , property crime rates take off : |
| 30 | Often a very difficult-looking question becomes easy when we look for cancelling . |