Example sentences of "and [pron] becomes [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that is the case , and she becomes upset , you could be very tempted to drop the whole issue , feeling that it is just ‘ not worth the candle ’ . |
| 2 | That 's a good question and that 's quite interesting , yes , they can actually if a girl has this and she becomes pregnant she has to go back on to her low protein diet while she 's pregnant in case her baby is affected right . |
| 3 | Dressing often becomes a battle at this time , as you try to hurry the process by helping where help is n't wanted and she becomes more and more frustrated when her leg goes in the wrong hole or the jumper ends up back to front . |
| 4 | In a fairy-tale scene he kisses her and she becomes beautiful , but after their betrothal she confesses her past sins and the weakness of her nature , imploring Leo to love her only in a spiritual sense . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Look at a crime closely enough and everything becomes significant . |
| 7 | When the train eventually pulls in , I notice the name Sir John Betjeman , emblazoned on the side , and everything becomes clear . |
| 8 | Then Gabe and Judy 's marriage collapses , and he becomes infatuated with a college student played by Cape Fear star Juliette Lewis . |
| 9 | Then the burden becomes too much for him and he becomes restless . |
| 10 | When the adsorbent becomes saturated with odour molecules its adsorptive capacity is greatly reduced and it becomes necessary to regenerate the adsorbent , usually by treatment with superheated steam . |
| 11 | At the same time it is in the modern democratic societies that this sharp antithesis between the state as a system of domination and the state as a welfare system becomes increasingly dubious , and it becomes necessary to consider it from these two aspects simultaneously . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A psychologist , Janis , has recognised that a group develops a strong feeling of ‘ we-ness ’ and it becomes vulnerable to a pattern of behaviour known as ‘ group think ’ . |
| 14 | The hue is also associated with bravery and sacrifice through the symbolic red poppy , but change the red 's warmth or intensity and it becomes explosive , signalling danger . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | and it becomes effortless to live in accord with my nature . |
| 17 | The most I have played at one time is probably seven hours and it becomes agonising , it tightens your arm up terribly . ’ |
| 18 | and it becomes that . |
| 19 | And then , almost imperceptibly , the calm surface become ruffled and the clear images blurred , and it becomes colder . |
| 20 | If you borrow money from a bank and it becomes insolvent you do not have a problem . |
| 21 | But if you lend money to a bank and it becomes insolvent you do . |
| 22 | The joint between your quartered oak disappear and it becomes one block . |
| 23 | In all these contexts there are high demands on individuals for effective and responsible behaviour , and it becomes crucial to know what precise effects sleep loss has had on normal functioning . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , I think it 's a very good idea , ’ she says , ‘ because one frowns when one concentrates , and it becomes habitual ; so if one is reminded about it , it helps . |
| 25 | Once vice-chancellors start to think the unthinkable , then the issue becomes part of the agenda and it becomes harder to retreat . |
| 26 | Press harder and it becomes obvious that front-end bite and turn-in are actually very good . |
| 27 | And if I should change my mind and find the abbey not to my liking , or if Joan returns and it becomes expedient to resume our true identities , then so be it . |
| 28 | Water also has a melting point and a boiling point much higher than would be expected from its formula and it becomes more fluid with increasing temperature . |
| 29 | You have up here you 've got neither win lose but it 's like it 's a respectable thing you know you respect each other you do n't trust them completely and you do n't co-operate completely but they just respect just not you 're just not willing to go that further little bit and it becomes more of a more of a rather than a win lose or a win win it 's more of a people half and half okay I 'll give this much if you give that much . |
| 30 | Add to this the fact that everything here can cost considerably less than almost anywhere else , and it becomes hard to see why young people go anywhere other than this sophisticated , cosmopolitan , exciting and dynamic resort , which we think is particularly good for those going abroad for the first time . |