Example sentences of "become [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But all instances share one characteristic : the author 's words become for a time the transmitters of other voices , voices that come from inside someone else 's head . |
| 2 | But the more genuine the competition , the more ineffective do government-imposed controls become as a way of affecting enterprise behaviour , since it must increasingly be governed by the ‘ logic ’ of the market rather than of political control . |
| 3 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 4 | ‘ A lot of the record , ’ Rowland sighs , ‘ is about other people 's perceptions of you and how if enough people treat you in a certain way that 's what you become after a while . |
| 5 | You become like a ship . ’ |
| 6 | For William Golding , for example , in Pincher Martin ( 1956 ) , they become in a sense almost simultaneous . |
| 7 | The two boys become in a sense a composite hero , complementary to one another and useful to the story in a purely formal way . |
| 8 | When we form a clear and distinct idea of the irrational sides of our nature , they are transformed and become in a soberer form part of the patterned plan of our life . |
| 9 | The architect knows only too well how devoted they become to a building once it is erected . |