Example sentences of "become instead a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , in 1989 the Abbey National Building Society became a public limited company and thereby ceased to be a building society , becoming instead a bank . |
| 2 | the conventional , derogatory association of the female sex with nature and flesh have been reversed , and become instead a newfoundland |
| 3 | The negative value attached to bodily traces , processes , imprints , and the conventional , derogatory association of the female sex with nature and flesh have been reversed , and become instead a newfoundland , a reservoir , a resource . |
| 4 | He became instead a boot and shoe maker . |
| 5 | If no question of change arises then evaluation is deprived of point and becomes instead a public relations exercise service to induce feelings-of-being-consulted in the course consumers , or feelings-of-being-valuable in the course presenters . |
| 6 | This impulse is figured partly in geographical terms ( as Jerome Klinkowitz has noted , ‘ Out moves from the clutter and hassle of the East to the pure space of an empty California beach ’ ( Klinkowitz 1980 : 137 ) ) and partly by shifting the names of the characters and the nature of their situations , so that travelling ceases to be a realistic indication of movement and becomes instead a metaphor for textual purpose . |
| 7 | If it is directed against an opponent it ceases to be self-suffering and becomes instead a form of coercion , which is an aspect of violence , and as such unacceptable . |