Example sentences of "[that] [noun] become [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , it was largely through the middle-class and scientific bias of the new provincial colleges that English Language , Literature , and History came to serve as a so-called " poor man 's classics " , and it was only at the very end of the century that Oxbridge became sufficiently concerned to begin to succumb to the then " national demand " for such studies and introduce new " Schools " and " Tripos " regulations that would allow the ancient institutions to take a lead in these new areas . |
| 2 | Research by Volvo shows that drivers become far less alert at even slightly raised temperatures , making potentially fatal driving errors much more likely . |
| 3 | This is one of the well-established results which Morton ( 1969 ) used in his influential model of the lexicon , which suggests that words become finally recognised when sufficient " data " about them have been collected from the environment . |
| 4 | The chronic phase shows progressive deterioration in emotional stability so that relationships become progressively damaged . |
| 5 | Many of the more worrying disciplinary problems of childhood and adolescence involve moral rules , and it is when children break these rules that parents become most perturbed . |
| 6 | After correcting the posture we will find that movements become easier and we will sense a lightness that has not been present since childhood . |
| 7 | I believe that generosity becomes less between nations , as the world economy heads for a more frightening decline . |
| 8 | In structuralist theory there is nothing to take over this task , so that ambiguity becomes fully polysemic , in the sense of consisting of an unreconcilable multiplicity of meanings . |
| 9 | The effect of his successive encounters and discoveries — which are very sparse — is that things become more complicated , or rather , that they become increasingly difficult to describe , to ‘ capture ’ . |
| 10 | It 's only when you think you might want to do something a little more complex and powerful with the information you 're storing that things become more jargonised and complex , and having a help system that is not context sensitive is of little assistance . |
| 11 | No doubt both tendencies arose in part because the voters themselves became more strongly partisan at that time ; but it also seems likely that television became more strictly impartial ( thereby offending both Labour and Conservative partisans more ) while the press became more stridently partisan ( Chapter 6 ) . |
| 12 | The Senate 's decision meant that Durenberger became only the ninth member to be so censured , and the first since 1979 . |
| 13 | This does not mean that people become more honest as they grow older . |
| 14 | It is widely believed that people become less productive as they get older . |
| 15 | It has even been argued in the US that stereotypes become more extreme in ‘ progressive ’ classrooms ( Sussman 1977 ) . |
| 16 | Given the nature of these failures , and their reasonably clear association with audited accounting information , it is not surprising that auditors become legally implicated . |
| 17 | It has been tacitly assumed that someone , somewhere in an organization collates economic facts and integrates them through a rigorous form of evaluation , so that decisions become almost self-evident provided only that the decision-makers realize that no one can make perfect predictions and that some allowance for uncertainties is needed . |
| 18 | Many nuns and priests who have worked with the CEBs have found that members become much more self-confident , they no longer feel cowed by fate ( Montgomery 1983 ) . |
| 19 | One important distinction between the two writers is that Bentham became much more favourably disposed towards the prison as a medium of criminal reformation than Beccaria appeared to be ( a point to which I shall return later ) . |
| 20 | Novelty plays an important part in all of our lives yet there is always something of a balance to be struck between having so much novelty that life becomes unbearably unpredictable and wearing , and the opposite where sameness drives us mad with boredom . |
| 21 | And police statistics prove that motorists become more reckless and cause more problems at such times . |
| 22 | And perhaps this is just as well , for were it not so , and were we to believe that personality became irreversibly set in the first two ( or three , or five ) years of life we should have to believe , first , that any child harmed then was beyond help and thus clinically not worth bothering about ; and , second , that children in later years were not vulnerable and that experience then was of no consequence . |
| 23 | Charles and John Higgs clicked , and it was largely thanks to the relationship struck up with him , and the sheer personality of the man , that Charles became wholly and genuinely enthused by every aspect of the Duchy . |
| 24 | But it is in encountering such difficulties , being puzzled , and arriving at resolutions , that children become increasingly aware of the nature of language and thought . |
| 25 | What is essential , Max says , is that children become musically literate at an early age ; learning some sort of instrument , to sing , and , most importantly to listen . |
| 26 | He regarded it as essential that men become more deeply committed to their work through the formation of professional/occupational groups , since for them an involvement in the family did not provide a sufficiently sound moral basis for continued existence : ‘ Men must gradually become attached to their occupational or professional life … |
| 27 | Although it appears that sentencing became more severe during the first three years the guide-lines were in use , Minnesota remains one of the very few states that has avoided huge increases in prison population size ( Parent 1988 ) . |
| 28 | Task allocation also means that nurses become very familiar with doing particular procedures , even though they may not give much thought to why they are doing something . |
| 29 | It is clear that Wagner became genuinely fond of Nietzsche , but for all the young professor 's admiration of him as a person , Wagner — it is a notorious fact — was a supremely egocentric man ; it is easily inferred that he glimpsed in Nietzsche a means of gaining respectability in hitherto hostile academic circles , and that it was this glimpse , as much as anything , that encouraged his fond feelings to grow . |
| 30 | It is only around 1935 , shortly after Lord Tyrrell 's appointment , that filmmakers became actively conscious of censorship as a real restriction on their freedom of expression . |