Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through this experience I became interested in the mechanisms of contemporary of Mori 's ‘ composite card ’ . |
| 2 | 3 In a very recent photograph I became aware of a shifting in the function of the photographic paper — ‘ skin ’ had become the object of the image — an undulating swathe of black rubber littered with bright crimson tulip petals , as though gashes in the fabric . |
| 3 | Bear in mind I became cynical after the introduction of Unified Threads in 1948 . |
| 4 | It is the negative aspect which is used in prescribing , as this is the side which becomes apparent when the patient is ill . |
| 5 | With some modifications the structure lasted until the 1972 Local Government Act ushered in a new pattern of elected local administration which became operative from 1 April 1974 , although this was further amended by the 1985 Local Government Act . |
| 6 | Graphite mining was another industry which became important in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | After her first five years apprenticeship she became involved with transport and it was here that she was destined to make her mark and has continued to do so for 37 years . |
| 8 | So the practice itself becomes useful for two different purposes , diagnosis and collaboration , which will probably not happen on the same occasion . |
| 9 | Centre-forward Tom White was Manager Bert Head 's primary target at Pittodrie , but he brought John McCormick back with him as well from the Granite City for a mere £1,500 — and it was the craggy defender who became such a staunch and resolute pillar of Palace rearguards and helped guide the club through to 1st Division security . |
| 10 | They are able to run quickly and confidently across that 6-foot ( 1.8-metre ) ride and because of their speed they become entangled . |
| 11 | Seen end on , their sharp , rocky summits point like arrows to the sky , while from the side they become narrow , crenellated ridges offering pleasant ways up to the tops , especially in winter . |
| 12 | If by next spring he becomes this country 's first heavyweight holder for nearly 100 years , he intends to make the challengers come to him . |
| 13 | Once she had recovered full consciousness it became clear that she had entirely lost the power of speech . |
| 14 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
| 15 | After much uncertainty it became plain that the Russians could not expect Mr Aziz to return to Moscow until late on Thursday ; he was expected to go at once to see Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 16 | Suppose that in the future it becomes possible to predict others ' behaviour more efficiently by observation and computation than by the always hazardous venture of trying to fathom the mysteries of the human heart . |
| 17 | As a result he became bored and left early . |
| 18 | At first , researchers attempted to place this style in the area from which it was assumed to originate — perhaps Persia , China or Central Asia — but through historical research it became clear that this was based on the false premise that the cloth was made in the original style of a certain group of people . |
| 19 | At first light it became clear that HMS Impregnable had carried five miles across shoal water from the Dean to a position about half way between Langstone and Chichester harbours , approximately half a mile from Hayling Island . |
| 20 | At the expiry of his term he became free of the Clothworkers ' Company on 7 August 1771 . |
| 21 | When a piece of quicklime was held in the tip of the flame it became white hot and glowed brilliantly . |
| 22 | Fujitsu Ltd has developed a 600dpi high resolution laser printer , the SLB-6200J1 which became available in late March . |
| 23 | Criticism of the kind which became popular with the pupils of I. A. Richards at Cambridge later in the century was absolutely unknown at Oxford . |
| 24 | There is a large measure of agreement within the literature that the structure of bargaining which becomes associated with a particular country 's industrial relations system is not simply the result of chance occurrence or historical accident , but develops instead because of identifiable forces . |
| 25 | An analysis of feminine and masculine symbolism delivered at a conference on ‘ archetypology ’ characterizes ‘ inversion by double negation ’ as ‘ typical of the imaginative function in its descending aspect of depth , night , femininity , container which becomes contained , swallower which becomes swallowed ’ as opposed to the ‘ upward masculine aspect ’ ( 109/503 ) . |
| 26 | AREAS OF SKIN WHICH BECOME THICKENED AND LUMPY WITH IRREGULAR RED-PINK EDGES . |
| 27 | There is a rough division between east and west which became apparent in Peter Webster 's study of Severn Valley wares found on the Wall ( 1972 ) , for , although there is not a great quantity it has a definite western bias , which suggests that the means of transport was by the sea . |
| 28 | It is not necessary to consider volume alone as the " excess ' parameter which becomes significant at Tg . |
| 29 | It was the first winter I became ugly : |
| 30 | And then of course as soon as I started the chemotherapy I became one of them and I started not to notice . |