Example sentences of "becomes [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The older a database is , the richer it becomes as a reference about customers and their views of you . |
| 2 | It becomes like a drive because you 're afraid of not making it , so , yeah , I drank . |
| 3 | This dematerialisation is taken a stage further when his soul becomes like a bird which can fly away , completely freeing itself from society or any distractions to concentrate solely on the contemplation of itself . |
| 4 | He becomes like a tiger , his eyes glistening . ’ |
| 5 | Ignorant men regard death with fear and avoid thinking about it , and for that reason it becomes like a terror to children . |
| 6 | A writer called Thomas Carlyle described it in 1824 as ‘ A frightful scene … a dense cloud of pestilential smoke hangs over it forever … and at night the whole region becomes like a volcano spitting fire from a thousand tubes of brick . ’ |
| 7 | When one reflects on how unpopular our own Government becomes with a recession which causes GDP to fall by just over 3 per cent from its 1990 peak , it is scarcely surprising that the reform programme in Russia has provoked widespread discontent . |
| 8 | The second qualification is that an innocent party who accepts an anticipatory breach becomes under a duty to mitigate ( minimise ) his loss . |