Example sentences of "become [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This examination of the range and extent of sex crime reporting shows both how pervasive sexual violence has become as a news item , and also how only a very small number of cases are selected as being ‘ newsworthy ’ . |
| 2 | SARAH Parrott has become like a sister to her young friend Philip Dawson , who suffers from cerebral palsy . |
| 3 | He gave no details of the proposals but said : ‘ The deportees issue has become like a thorn in resuming the peace talks and we have to remove this thorn . |
| 4 | ‘ No doubt the deportees issue has become like a thorn in renewing the peace talks and we have to remove this thorn , ’ Mr Shara said . |
| 5 | The Führer ’ had become like a drug for the people , needed for reassurance whenever doubts , worries , and uncertainties began to mount . |
| 6 | He said she had become like a stone and tempted him to treat her as one and hurl her away . |
| 7 | ANGRY mourners are staying away from a Liverpool cemetery , because they say it has become like a jungle . |
| 8 | Charles Pollard , chief constable for the Thames Valley says court proceedings have become like a game . |
| 9 | Court proceedings have become like a game . |
| 10 | When Faraway Moses , who was once Count St Sylvain and a Black Rider , is captured and imprisoned , Jasper the Terrible , who has made himself responsible for the boy in his own household , offers to release the man who has become like a father to Dick if he will reveal the names of the other Confederates . |
| 11 | She said yesterday her home in Louisa Street , Darlington , has become like a house under siege . |
| 12 | But it had become like a hunger : his whole being seemed empty when he was out of her presence . |
| 13 | As such , Hitler had become in a way the projection of national aspirations to greatness which reached back into the imperial ambitions of the Wilhelmine era , and which in added strength under Nazism had found an echo among much of the German population , not least as a compensation for a far greyer reality . |