Example sentences of "[pers pn] becomes [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She becomes pregnant by him and is forced to leave home but is determined to keep the child . |
| 2 | She goes back to England where she becomes engaged to the ‘ suitable ’ Cecil . |
| 3 | Once a minister seeks to enact policies that require the expenditure of ‘ new money ’ he or she becomes engaged in what is inevitably a more difficult political exercise . |
| 4 | But this is almost certainly an illusion : as she becomes surer of her hold on the affections of her poet , so she becomes surer of herself , can dispense with affectations , and dares to speak with a certain authority about compositions that her lover sends to her — animadversions that the poet in turn receives quite humbly . |
| 5 | But this is almost certainly an illusion : as she becomes surer of her hold on the affections of her poet , so she becomes surer of herself , can dispense with affectations , and dares to speak with a certain authority about compositions that her lover sends to her — animadversions that the poet in turn receives quite humbly . |
| 6 | In fact , during pregnancy , she becomes able to ingest and utilise more of the necessary substance than is required by the child alone so that by the end of pregnancy she will be better off for such substances as nitrogen , calcium etc. than she was at the beginning . |
| 7 | She becomes frightened of the foal or aggressive towards it and will not let it suckle . |
| 8 | She becomes aware of the importance of her body . |
| 9 | All the lots are unoccupied , or so she thinks until a pair of green plastic curtains suddenly swishes around the car , enfolding them in a cave of green plastic gloom and she becomes aware of other cars and bodies breathing behind green silences . |
| 10 | Many women are unable to get beyond this sequence , finding It so graphic that the act of watching it becomes close to an act of violation in itself . |
| 11 | He will run at Newbury unless it becomes good to firm or firmer . ’ |
| 12 | But as it becomes clearer with each day that Mr Perot still harbours political ambitions for himself , the old doubts about him recur . |
| 13 | Therefore it becomes possible at last to read and evaluate what was earnestly planned , executed , fought for , tinkered with in a vain attempt to propitiate Katkov ( but also , as we shall see , for another reason ) , and finally surrendered . |
| 14 | Using a mixture of regression , clustering and genetic algorithms , it becomes possible to ‘ train ’ the computer to recognise the signals that indicate a given event , and to decide the most appropriate action , if any , that such an event should trigger . |
| 15 | Using specially designed pc based software for tracking the impact of different communications strategies , it becomes possible to progressively fine tune these strategies . |
| 16 | You will find you have access to swims you once only dreamed about and it becomes possible for you to float fish in swims which can only be fished with leger tackle from the bank . |
| 17 | For instance , the conditions in which it becomes possible for an animal to perform an act that would bring it food become rewarding themselves . |
| 18 | Once the individual begins to establish regularities , to generalise over experience , it becomes possible for him not only to recognise a particular experience as being one of a type , say a scolding or an interview , it also becomes possible to predict what is likely to happen , what are likely to be the relevant features of context , within a particular type of communicative event . |
| 19 | It gets into water supplies in two ways : either from acid soils , where it becomes soluble at low pH ( there are huge amounts in the soil and these are washed out by acid rain where there is little organic matter to bind the aluminium ) , or by being deliberately added to peaty water to remove the suspended organic matter and make the water clear , by a similar chemical process . |
| 20 | If it becomes necessary for you to cancel and claim you must notify us ( or your travel agent ) immediately to obtain a cancellation invoice before claiming . |
| 21 | When it becomes necessary for a bank to liquidate some of its liquid assets in order that it may then have a desired liquidity position , it will , as has been explained , sell to other banks or discount houses . |
| 22 | Then it becomes worthwhile for them to establish a plant in Singapore , to produce goods or services for export . |
| 23 | This can be upgraded to the Pentium chip when it becomes available in the second quarter this year . |
| 24 | It becomes available in three months priced with media and manuals at $1,500 and with right-to-use licences at $1,400 . |
| 25 | It becomes available in the fourth quarter at $500 a licence . |
| 26 | Where the board can effectively determine its own composition it has generally been assumed that it becomes immune from direct shareholder influence and hence that control has shifted from the owners to managers . |
| 27 | To the extent that positivist criminology incorporates a realistic , manageable version of determinism , it becomes compatible with its classical predecessor . |
| 28 | According to this interpretation , the associability of each stimulus element might be expected to decline as it becomes associated with others , just as a CS as a whole is thought to lose associability as it becomes linked with a US . |
| 29 | When , for example , a previously repressed anger comes back into consciousness and it becomes safer for a person to acknowledge his hostility , desire is also freed . |
| 30 | It is only when a living organism dies that it becomes subject to the laws of the non-living world , and disintegrates into simpler and simpler molecules or components . |