Example sentences of "[noun] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cykesound became a speck on the road , and grew bigger as it approached . |
| 2 | Then and there my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound . |
| 3 | His meditation became a poem , his thinking became a song . |
| 4 | Rolle seems to witness to an experience where the barrier to the direct experience of that joy is lifted ; the Word that informs all words , the harmony behind all music , becomes real to him ; " my meditation became a poem … |
| 5 | In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) . |
| 6 | Most good judges believed that Fender 's true metier was as a legspinner ; but his low boredom threshold meant that sometimes variety became an end in itself . |
| 7 | The conviction that what moves men is money became a commandment among the Left of the labour movement during the unprecedented waves of industrial militancy in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 8 | Their first recorded connection with Richard is after his accession , when the second son Roger became a yeoman of the crown . |
| 9 | Their first recorded connection with Richard is after his accession , when the second son Roger became a yeoman of the crown . |
| 10 | The GP became a supplicant . |
| 11 | As the earth there had only recently been dug , the grave became a kind of muddy pool . |
| 12 | He was celebrated there as a martyr , and his grave became a shrine , a sacred site , a pilgrimage centre . |
| 13 | The airline had already being criticised by some CAA officials , and pilots believe Mr Stewart became a pawn in a trial of strength . |
| 14 | Marianne Farningham became a member of the Northampton School Board in the mid-1880s , but she declined to canvass or address meetings , preferring to send a printed letter round to electors , though this ladylike course of action did not prevent her heading the poll . |
| 15 | Tiriac became a father figure and Nastase was at least able to fulfil some of his potential . |
| 16 | Bishop and priests left , and Clonmacnoise became a ruin , used only as a burial ground for those who held the site forever sacred . |
| 17 | His office bulletins became a fount of Fleet Street lore ( ‘ Always , always , tell the news through people , ’ for example ) . |
| 18 | As the seconds ticked by and Seawitch continued to cut a creamy path through the sapphire water , the tightness in her chest became a pain . |
| 19 | Thus the writer became a participant in the direct market process of the sale of his work . |
| 20 | Looking at banking hours became a priority , as Saturday opening was helping building societies to woo bank customers . |
| 21 | The relationship between fiduciary duties and regulatory rules became a matter of concern at the time of the enactment of the Financial Services Act 1986 ( FSA ) . |
| 22 | Around 1204 , however , the two quarrelled and Eustace became a fugitive : it is with his adventures in the next year or so that the biography , composed between 1223 and 1284 by an unknown poet from Picardy , is principally concerned . |
| 23 | The spaceship docks of Plenty became an inferno . |
| 24 | Doyle became a hero . |
| 25 | Of course , when the time came , Doyle became a victim of an attitude which he had helped to foster . |
| 26 | In 1990 Alison became a business development consultant , based at Elstree . |
| 27 | Seduced by better money , Malc became a bus conductor and the bad times began . |
| 28 | In all these areas — the unions , the local authorities , the Church , the media , the universities and schools — the paradox was that a government notionally dedicated to extending individualism and the private ethic became a champion of greater centralization and state control . |
| 29 | In the Cold War climate of postwar France , the Nizan Case became a pretext for a political slanging match . |
| 30 | In the rainy season roads became a quagmire , irrespective of who was going to travel them , including the Governor General . |