Example sentences of "[adv] becomes a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Narrating in his works quite literally becomes a kind of fabulation . |
| 2 | This conduct only becomes a nuisance when the consequence of his acts are not confined to his own land but extend on to his neighbour 's land . |
| 3 | While a certain amount of stress can be positive — it provides energy which enables us to do the things we want to do — it only becomes a problem if it develops into distress . |
| 4 | It only becomes a problem if the environment encourages it to grow excessively . |
| 5 | A natural action which only becomes a problem in excess and the foot continues to roll inwards . |
| 6 | It only becomes a mystery because we notice that there are too few facts to draw a conclusion . |
| 7 | That is still the reality of the Christian message , but that forgiveness only becomes a reality , efficacious , when I make it mine . |
| 8 | Because a human only becomes a resource when it is classed as an asset with potential to grow . |
| 9 | The room suddenly becomes a hive of activity as the team spring into action . |
| 10 | I was reminded of Kipling 's story , The Miracle of Purun Bhagat , a tale of a Western-dressed Indian statesman who suddenly becomes a hermit and holy man , living on a mountain , at one with nature . |
| 11 | Here an innocent ‘ expedition ’ suddenly becomes a conquest from one sentence to the next . |
| 12 | The reaction function g(U) then merely becomes a formalization of what Pigou and other classical writers had been saying all along , namely , that downward revisions of the money wage rate would eradicate the phenomenon of general unemployment . |
| 13 | As part of a dualist doctrine , the mentalist theory merely becomes a source of equivocations and obscurities . |
| 14 | From Dent , the street opposite the Sedgwick memorial is taken ; this soon becomes a country lane followed for a mile and a half to Deepdale Methodist Chapel , ignoring a signposted branch to Ingleton after a mile . |
| 15 | Almost impossible to control this initially welcome addition to the aquarium soon becomes a nightmare causing mayhem by settling close to and attacking other invertebrates . |
| 16 | At first he may look funny chatting away silently but it soon becomes a bore . |
| 17 | At the post office there is a clear indication for the turn off to the left , which very soon becomes a forest track that comes out on to a metalled road after 10 minutes walk . |
| 18 | Management 's role thus becomes a kind of balancing act ( this is sometimes called the ‘ stakeholder ’ theory ) , and it has to be even more persuasive than ever in ‘ selling ’ its proposals . |
| 19 | Like Beckett 's trilogy , though in much lighter vein , At Swim-Two-Birds thus becomes a story about a man telling a story about storytelling . |
| 20 | In this case matters concerned with hypertext presentation , such as ‘ this is a button ’ , would simply be a property of a logical object ; a button thus becomes a way of representing a logical object , rather than a logical object itself . |
| 21 | Chaucer 's Reeve , for Olson , is revealed as a judge who will not temper strict retributive justice with mercy , and thus becomes a character who is liable to strict justice himself . |
| 22 | Form thus becomes a condition of non-form and , however stable it may seem , all that can be observed in our universe is the existential process of change from one state to another . |
| 23 | Politics thus becomes a matter of solving problems in the manner of an engineer by the application of the appropriate technique ; it is the ‘ politics of felt need ’ , the ‘ politics of perfection ’ , and the ‘ politics of uniformity ’ . |
| 24 | It thus becomes a matter of the sensitivity of investment to changes in interest rates , i.e. what is the interest-elasticity of investment ? |
| 25 | Learning individually becomes a necessity . |
| 26 | They get you in individually , and sort of reveal embarrassing personal stories , and there 's , I mean it just becomes a battleground , your house for , for the weekend . |
| 27 | ‘ When you 've got targets and incentives it just becomes a family planning programme and not much more than that ’ Tricia Parker , Oxfam Bangladesh |
| 28 | Finding out about test-tube fusion quickly becomes a cloak and dagger venture as desperate scientists and others resort to spying to find out the secrets in the Utah lab . |
| 29 | Furthermore , especially when blooms are double or have many petals , it is quite likely that spent blooms will collapse into a rain-soaked soggy mess that quickly becomes a haven a breeding ground for mildew . |
| 30 | As I have already suggested , transmission styles are much more widespread than this , though : so familiar a part of teachers ' experience , in fact , that their practice quickly becomes a matter of habit and routine , of taken-for-granted competence , not strategic choice . |