Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unwritten and unwritten laws and conventions about who represents us as women in our social , governmental and legal structures , and who has a hand in shaping those structures , amount to a set of understandings about where women 's bodies can actually be , how and where we become visible , and what the attitudes towards that visibility will be . |
| 2 | There are relatively minor differences which I shall point out where they become relevant . |
| 3 | Where they become problematic , especially for members of marginalized cultural groups , is in what they begin to mean if we take them out of the pristine hot-house of the academy and put them into the messy struggles of day-to-day life . |
| 4 | Culture , then , is not to be understood , by the concept of objectification formulated by Berger and Luckmann , as the necessary externalization of subjective processes onto intersubjective domains where they become institutionalized . |
| 5 | Eventually they reached a stage where they became integrated units . |
| 6 | The boats surrounded the whales , drove them into nets , where they became enmeshed and were rendered helpless by harpoon thrusts . |
| 7 | The spokeswoman also called for the area of beach where they became stuck to be clearly signposted . |
| 8 | Consequently herbs were simply not part of the garden scene , being tucked away in an odd corner of the vegetable garden , or grown half-heartedly in pots or window-boxes , where they became aphid-ridden and dusty . |
| 9 | Where he becomes ridiculous is in his desperate ambition to be part of the working class , striking a rather pathetic figure as he sits in his ministerial office with his trade union banner behind his head . |
| 10 | He was accused of rape and murder after attending a dance where he became intimate with a gardener 's daughter named Mary Ashford . |
| 11 | He was a physician who , after qualifying in medicine in 1912 , worked for a time at University College Hospital , London , where he became interested in bacteriology and the developing discipline of immunology . |
| 12 | He stayed on at the Cambridge biochemistry department as demonstrator until 1955 , when he moved to Edinburgh University as director of the chemical biology unit of the Department of Zoology , where he became senior lecturer and then Reader . |
| 13 | This record sounds deranged at either 33 ( where you can pretend it 's a fat bloke singing ) or 45 ( where it becomes apparent that an agitated woman is handling the vocal chores ) . |
| 14 | It gets into water supplies in two ways : either from acid soils , where it becomes soluble at low pH ( there are huge amounts in the soil and these are washed out by acid rain where there is little organic matter to bind the aluminium ) , or by being deliberately added to peaty water to remove the suspended organic matter and make the water clear , by a similar chemical process . |
| 15 | The myogenin gene has been isolated and can be introduced into non-muscle cells where it becomes integrated into their DNA . |
| 16 | In its uncharged ( unprotonated ) form , it diffuses into acid compartments such as the patietal cell lumen , where it becomes protonated and positively charged . |
| 17 | There 's not the mystery around it really and I 've sort of made that into one of my points about =bout my work and also erm I always thought perhaps once I became wealthy and had money I would do real paintings in oil and canvass . |
| 18 | Once I became anorexic , that weight vanished with my flesh . |
| 19 | But although she became pregnant several times , she miscarried on each occasion . |
| 20 | The French kiss went on forever , and as the persistent tongue scoured the back of her throat , so she became aware of nimble fingers slipping her blouse from her shoulders and unfastening her bra . |
| 21 | But this is almost certainly an illusion : as she becomes surer of her hold on the affections of her poet , so she becomes surer of herself , can dispense with affectations , and dares to speak with a certain authority about compositions that her lover sends to her — animadversions that the poet in turn receives quite humbly . |
| 22 | What steps will you take to ensure that God receives his proper priority in your life as an individual once you become married and new |
| 23 | ‘ No , but once you become known sales will increase , ’ said the publisher . |
| 24 | The first we step into we call the infant or thoughtless Chamber , in which we remain as long as we do not think … we no sooner get into the second Chamber , which I shall call the Chamber of Maiden-Thought , than we become intoxicated with the light and the atmosphere , we see nothing but pleasant wonders , and think of delaying there for ever in delight . |
| 25 | Once we become aware of what we are doing , will we be able to go on being wasteful with our precious resources ? |
| 26 | And the echoes , although they became softer , refused to die away . |
| 27 | And so they become willing aiders rather than initiators . |
| 28 | Garlic cloves are cooked in their skins so they become soft enough to purée into a delicious sauce |
| 29 | He stopped talking to me and changed deadlines so they became impossible to meet . |
| 30 | Initially the Germans were more proficient at this than the Allies , for they kept their snipers in the same sector for long periods so they became familiar with the enemy 's trench systems there , while the Allies rotated their snipers with the units to which they belonged . |