Example sentences of "[to-vb] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeremy : What he was doing to try to become a sportsman . |
| 2 | It was as if he were still competing for Martha : every return to harbour became a race between his ketch and Sam 's ; every catch had to be compared for weight and quality , and every new little luxury Harry purchased for himself or his wife had to be announced that evening in the Russell alehouse as further proof of his superiority . |
| 3 | An agreement to sell becomes a sale when property passes to the buyer . |
| 4 | ( 6 ) An agreement to sell becomes a sale when the time elapses or the conditions are fulfilled subject to which the property in the goods is to be transferred . |
| 5 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |
| 6 | The objective , in other words , was to avoid becoming a loser . |
| 7 | Here , as elsewhere , there are difficult questions to be answered : whether membership of a society should involve a positive duty to take care of one 's body for the general social good , either to avoid becoming a burden on other members of the community or even to preserve oneself as a positive contributor to that community . |
| 8 | He is so afraid of being controlled himself ( being done to as he himself does ) that he continues to control others to avoid becoming a victim himself and so having to face humiliation . |
| 9 | He prospered there , but in April 1919 he was able to resign to become a lecturer at Birkbeck College , London . |
| 10 | Then , in pursuance of his interest in Whitman and others , he decided to study to become a librarian . |
| 11 | Soon after the early death of his father in 1829 , Israel appears to have become a clerk in an uncle 's bank in Göttingen , remaining there for ten years . |
| 12 | If I am correct — and the statement is also seen in some measure as a form of protection of the parents ' and child 's rights in this matter — it is surely anomalous that this statement appears largely to have become a passport to special schooling . |
| 13 | Occasionally a mevleviyet was created by the combination of the kadilik with another post : Kutahya was made a mevleviyet in about 970/1562–3 by the joining of a muderrislik with the kadilik , while Kefe seems to have become a mevleviyet in 992/1584 by the joining of the offices of kadi and mufti . |
| 14 | From the outside it seemed , he said , to have become a campaign for political stagnation . |
| 15 | This is the only miracle ( with the possible exception of the Gerasene demoniac ) where the person is known to have become a disciple . |
| 16 | More than ever , it seemed to have become a part of her body . |
| 17 | In this environment he appeared to have become a model pupil . |
| 18 | Eventually , the whole of Palestine-Israel-Jordan was to have become a confederation , rather like Switzerland . |
| 19 | For some the holding of one of these posts was just one stage in their careers , for others a succession of such posts appears to have become a career in itself , though one must be careful to emphasize that there is not enough evidence to suggest that there was in the case of the muderris/muftis anything like as clearly defined a career structure as in the case of the muderrises and the kadis , that there was , in effect , a comparable to the and the . |
| 20 | Every party whose signature appears on a bill is prima facie deemed to have become a party thereto for value . |
| 21 | This technique seems to have become a habit and not just in the Guardian . |
| 22 | For instance , should a screening decision not to re-investigate become a focus of attention and criticism at the trial ? |
| 23 | Sometimes you have to fail to become a winner and we did with League Cup final defeats to Leeds and Swindon . |
| 24 | The thrust of that position , however , is that clients ' needs are taken from them ( the transitive verb to need becomes a noun ) and adjudicated by alien authorities , often to the disadvantage of the client . |
| 25 | In the 1080s , when Archbishop Siegfried of Mainz wanted to retire to become a monk , his cathedral clergy wrote to him in horror , stressing a traditional view : ‘ Nothing in the world surpasses the life of a bishop ; every monk or recluse and every hermit , as being of lesser importance , must give way to him . ’ |