Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] becomes a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Odyssey or the Recherche is only , in a certain way , an amplification ( in the rhetorical sense ) of statements such as Ulysses comes home to Ithaca or Marcel becomes a writer ’ ( 1980 : 30 ) . |
| 2 | When anxiety or depression becomes a way of life , however , it would be advisable to seek the help of a professional aromatherapist or other holistic therapist . |
| 3 | To its critics , the Plan conjures a grim vision of a future in which the home of the Beach Boys , fresh air and freedom becomes a battle-ground between suffocating fumes and suffocating regulations . |
| 4 | Killing two men at his friend Pat Garrett 's wedding , The Kid is turned into a hunted prey , cast aside by those he looks to for affection and Newman becomes a psychotic outsider . |
| 5 | If the infection is unchecked , peritonitis may follow and gonorrhoea becomes a life-threatening emergency . |
| 6 | In Barthes 's later work this plurality of structures and elements becomes a strength of the analysis . |
| 7 | But Scotland has a long way to go before the symbiosis of locals and visitors becomes a reality . |
| 8 | Doctors in the UK have recently been warned that RSI may soon reach epidemic proportions as public recognition increases and compensation becomes a reality . |
| 9 | It is not long before their imaginative faculties are reactivated and word-processing becomes a universal withdrawal symptom . |
| 10 | The violence , of course , may not be physical ; in some of the families that Laing and his associates have described , privacy becomes isolation , togetherness becomes a mutual and corrosive manipulation , and love becomes a commodity or weapon ( Laing et al . , |
| 11 | For " high " speeds ( greater than 100 steps per second in Fig. 4.1 ) the time constant for current rise and decay becomes a significant proportion of the total phase excitation time . |
| 12 | What had been essentially a workers ' party , fifty percent of the membership workers based predominantly in the big cities and towns becomes a party of intellectuals and peasants . |
| 13 | So the wobbly beauty of ‘ Chasing A Bee ’ , ‘ Frittering ’ and endless mantra ‘ Very Sleepy Rivers ’ is offset by tangled thickets of sound , where David Baker practises his booming space cadet comedy voice and improvisation becomes a euphemism ( as only too often ) for indulgent incompetence . |
| 14 | It is an ideal situation , when living alone , that you should enjoy your own company , but you should also balance this with forays into the outside world , otherwise solitude becomes loneliness and seclusion becomes a state of imprisonment . |
| 15 | The endlessly repetitive cropping and grinding becomes a whole way of life , dominating the daily routine of such animals as rabbits and hares , some rodents , marsupials such as kangaroos and wallabies , many ungulates and , among invertebrates , the grasshoppers and locusts . |