Example sentences of "the [noun sg] becomes a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to be able to go to a park and swim , or check out a ball to play with , because they had a part-time supervisor there , then they take that away and the park becomes a land mass , then it becomes a turf , you see ? |
| 2 | Or if it stands near a town , the political planners swarm into the house , turn it into a rabbit-warren of black-hatted officers of This and That , and the park becomes a site for some ‘ overspill ’ — a word as beastly as the thing it describes . |
| 3 | The Solution is equipped with an audible alarm which is emitted when the ascent speed exceeds 10 metres per minute , when the dive becomes a decompression dive and when the decompression ceiling is reached . |
| 4 | … I think that this being very much a teaching hospital area … the GP becomes a second or third rate citizen . |
| 5 | After death the heart becomes a pyramid ( it has always been one of the wonders of the world ) ; but even in life the heart was never heart-shaped . |
| 6 | The function of the sacrificial pit is transferred to an altar outside ( often opposite the east door ) and the building becomes a house for the god in the statue . |
| 7 | If the mild weather continues and the greenhouse-effect becomes a reality , many garden plants could be demoted to the status of weeds , as annual and tender plants not only survive the winter but seed prolifically as well . |
| 8 | For the student , therefore , the story becomes a more complicated one . |
| 9 | The navigator can simply link his PC or laptop with an NMEA or Navstar 2000 series cable to a Decca , Loran , Satnav or GPS receiver , and the PC becomes a chart plotter . |
| 10 | At high concentrations , the blood becomes a sort of chemical sponge , capable of drawing in whatever meagre supplies of water exist , even when the toad 's body already contains much more water than the surrounding area of soil . |
| 11 | In the mid-1990s , object-oriented programming promises to bring the next irresistible revolution , but until that happens , no-one should be too surprised if the mass of desktop users splits into two camps , one that goes down the Unix-with-everything route , the other that decides as a matter of policy to remain in the ‘ do n't know ’ came , judging MS-DOS with a touch of Windows here and there to be good enough for the next three or four years until the picture of the future becomes a bit clearer . |
| 12 | And the birds scatter , and the wind becomes a dream . |
| 13 | A naughty child will , in this respect , suffer from either a diminution of moral status or , if the fault becomes a seasoned trait , a bad reputation . |
| 14 | Saliva glands produce only 10 ml at night compared with 500 ml during the day , so the mouth becomes a stagnant pond for more than 1,600 billion bacteria overnight . |
| 15 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 16 | The holding becomes a slave-driving tyrant . |
| 17 | The dot becomes a Y in generation 2 . |
| 18 | The foal becomes a social animal and part of the herd , and as it matures it is likely to take a similar place in the social hierarchy of the herd as its mother . |
| 19 | The sodomite becomes a virulent image of this threat , embodying a foreign infection which in turn is linked to social disorder and economic collapse at home . |
| 20 | So the dream becomes a symbolic expression of this conflict and what very often happens is the there 's a kind of compromise in which you go off and look for the bathroom or the drink of water or whatever it is you want , but the dream keeps postponing you finding it , in order to lengthen the dream and the state of sleep , so you go on sleeping for a bit longer . |
| 21 | ( 7 ) If an employee of the Council becomes a member of the Council and was by reference to his employment by the Council a participant in a pension scheme such as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( 5 ) above — |
| 22 | Under another draft , SAS 500 , the previous optional procedure for external auditors to consider the activities of and gain a sufficient understanding of an internal audit function in planning the audit becomes a requirement . |
| 23 | Two rounds after the door is opened , the floor between the doors to 76 and 78 retracts and the passage becomes a pit , 4 yards deep , with jagged iron spikes set into the bottom . |
| 24 | Going to the bathroom these days is quite a heavy trip : the can becomes a kind of geyser , and Tod has to look lively with that bucket of his . |
| 25 | To go one stage further : " consistency " and " tendency " are most naturally reduced to " frequency " and so , it appears , the stylistician becomes a statistician . |
| 26 | With practice , teething troubles such as these get ironed out and the Femidom becomes a happy rival to your Mates , Durex , or Jiffy . |
| 27 | Present your recommendations to him and he 'll say well yeah I 'd like to think about it and you go off then oh fair enough then so you go back to the branch and the second becomes a third |
| 28 | In different parts of the world the transition from childhood to the adult state may be protracted — as in our country and others of advanced Western culture ; passed through by means of relatively brief " rites of passage " formally enjoined by custom ; or virtually non-existent in those cultures where the boy becomes a man without ceremony or fuss as he becomes able to satisfy and support a wife . |
| 29 | Marx 's argument that the proletariat becomes a revolutionary force because : machinery reduces differences thus homogenising the labour force ; the nature of work in a modern factory requires organisation ; and the exploitation of the industrial system leads to poverty and alienation , can be applied to rural society in Latin America . |
| 30 | Instead , he argues , the proletariat becomes a cognitariat , working with symbols . |