Example sentences of "becomes [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more concentrated the odour , the more quickly fatigue becomes complete , resulting in temporary amnosia . |
| 2 | When these snares are loosened the tone becomes hollow and resonant . |
| 3 | Where productivity is higher the carpet thickens and becomes peaty ; Allen and Heal ( 1970 ) reported moss peat up to 2 m thick , overlying rather than mixing with the mineral soil beneath . |
| 4 | In places the path becomes narrow and rocky and needs care . |
| 5 | It sculptures caves in its banks as it falls into a deep ravine , and becomes sedate only in its later stages as it leaves its dale to lose its identity in the River Lune . |
| 6 | Always have a plan B in case your original choice becomes impractical for any reason . |
| 7 | However , there seems to be no reason why it should break down until the gravitational field becomes strong enough that quantum gravitational effects are important . |
| 8 | But you find eventually there 's perhaps two or three colours that becomes strong through the year . |
| 9 | The entrance is dry but soon becomes low , developing into a crawl where the stream from Lower Long Churn is admitted . |
| 10 | The AND gate output therefore becomes LOW and the integrator ramps down to zero . |
| 11 | As the production of dictionaries becomes computer-based so dictionaries are becoming increasingly available in machine readable formats . |
| 12 | Just as any oppressed man is most enslaved when he becomes shameful in his own eyes , so the Christian is deepest in captivity when not only in his believing but in his doubting too he dances to the tune of his culture 's parody of his faith . |
| 13 | The capitalist becomes rich because the workers become poor . |
| 14 | capitalism and becomes rich as the we western world then th they 'll be all for that |
| 15 | But as soon as it is dusk , the soil becomes alive with toads frantically digging their way to the surface . |
| 16 | The loving parent who tries to shield the child from harm to such an extent that he becomes timid and anxious can cause as many problems as the thoughtless and impatient adult who thinks that telling the child he is stupid will spur him on to greater efforts . |
| 17 | The reader can appreciate her desperation as her love for Macbeth becomes hopeless . |
| 18 | Rather , the purer observation and clarity of the child becomes conditioned by the attitudes and belief systems of the parents , teachers and associates . |
| 19 | The child becomes conditioned to dislike food and even when the disorder has been treated the child will continue to avoid food because of past experience . |
| 20 | This develops during a prolonged dry season when reinfection is negligible , but the pasture becomes deficient in nutrients . |
| 21 | For all its yukky presentation of the leader and his wife as Mr and Mrs Extremely Normal and Nice , it was also getting at how politics is a process , how someone becomes political through a network of direct social relationships and lived experience . |
| 22 | If it becomes political , it has no special affinity for ethnically labelled politics . |
| 23 | John sometimes becomes political , and the easiest thing is not to contradict him . |
| 24 | Among the Buid , momentary expressions of anger may be viewed in the first instance as indicative of a momentary desire to harm another , but if such conduct becomes persistent or habitual it is almost always reinterpreted as being caused by hostile mystical forces and thus as not being under the deliberate control of the individual . |
| 25 | But : ‘ Arbitrary as it seems when only its individual terms are considered , the system becomes coherent when it is seen as a whole set ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Acromegalics are often unusually strong , but in later life the pituitary becomes exhausted and the once strong man becomes flabby and weak . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It often happens that one who at first was listening gladly becomes exhausted and now opens his mouth no longer to give assent but to yawn , and even involuntarily gives signs that he wants to depart . |
| 28 | However due to the continual loss of iron and protein into the gastrointestinal tract and increasing inappetence , the marrow eventually becomes exhausted and the haematorcrit falls still further before death occurs . |
| 29 | When your policy becomes due for renewal there will be no need to complete a fresh application and direct debit instruction . |
| 30 | For corporation tax purposes , a dividend is treated as paid on the date when it becomes due and payable ( s 834(1) , Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 ) . |