Example sentences of "become as " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion . |
| 2 | This raises a lump which may become as big as a small orange . |
| 3 | He used to play baseball and he wears a white baseball cap that one day may become as famous as Pat Cash 's chequered headbands . |
| 4 | Time will tell whether collecting the alpine 4000ers will become as popular as Munro bagging , but for a real challenge , how about going for a complete set of 150 peaks and 4000m tops ! |
| 5 | And yet , they could never become as truly professional as their colleagues in other disciplines , since ‘ literature ’ did not belong in the academy and was not generated there , though criticism and scholarship might be . |
| 6 | For the Nineties , it 's safe to predict that the nostalgia boom has a few years left to run , that Neneh Cherry , Roland Gift and Terence Trent D'Arby will become as big as they want to be , and that Bobby Brown 's crafty commercialisation of rap , soul and a vast ego will give Wacko a run for his money quite soon . |
| 7 | Officials agonise : will the Japanese then become as eager to shirk work as the Swedes are ? |
| 8 | There 's no reason why this should n't become as big , or last as long . ’ |
| 9 | It did however eventually become as strong over the next 9 months , especially after the family moved to Birmingham too . |
| 10 | And at some point it would all become as real as it was ever to become again , as the happy escaper slid into dreams until morning . |
| 11 | If exercise is to be effective it must become as natural to us as breathing , eating , or cleaning our teeth . |
| 12 | Similarly , it may take no more than a momentary pang of empathetic distress to convince me that if I could become as aware from the sufferer 's viewpoint as from my own I would be spontaneously moved to help him even to my own cost . |
| 13 | Virgin hopes a day in the cockpit will become as popular as a day at the races for company gatherings . |
| 14 | Combined operations became the commando 's métier and he would become as accustomed to calling up a battleship 's gunnery officer or the leader of a flight of rocket firing Typhoon aircraft as he might be radioing for mortar fire from his own Heavy Weapons Troop . |
| 15 | Moreover , it is difficult to believe that anyone who can be as dull as Hoccleve can , when using literary conventions , could suddenly become as lively as he does by merely adopting a new one : the ‘ autobiographical ’ convention . |
| 16 | Whatever you were before , you will now become as three brothers . |
| 17 | Regarding developments on the Pentium chip front , Dr Grove said he expected that Pentium-based machines would become as ubiquitous as the 80486 machines , and that the chip would be offered not only in servers but in desktop machines . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , if you mix with those types you 'll become as bad as they are . ’ |
| 19 | If that Chancellor is not to be Mr Lamont , he could quickly become as unpopular as Mr Lamont . |
| 20 | Things are changing and work in public affairs will probably become as accepted and widely used in Britain as it is in the United States . |
| 21 | Other methods of dating based on similar principles of measuring the balance between decaying and stable isotopes are being developed , arid these may well become as important as radiocarbon dating . |
| 22 | Committees can become as tyrannical and authoritarian as individuals , and therefore the members of a worship committee need to take particular care to listen to comments or complaints from the congregation , and to take note of the varying temperaments and requirements of worshippers . |
| 23 | But soon she began to remember how ill he had been , and how frightened he was , frightened that one day his back would become as crooked as his father 's . |
| 24 | Fifth , the problem of fonts and output matching will become as big a problem for the desktop publishing market as it ever was for the traditional sector and potentially more confusing for the user than ever before . |
| 25 | A sweet , deep pain closed about his manhood , and it was then that desire rocketed out of control , and he felt himself become as hard and as high as the beech trees that stood sentinel to Tara 's western avenue … |
| 26 | And while in the short term it wo n't replace other forms of communication such as fax or telex , in time these will become as relevant to our business as semaphore or the carrier pigeon were hundreds of years ago . |
| 27 | We trust he has seen his error and will become as respectable in his conduct as he is in his abilities . ’ |
| 28 | routine imaging of gastrointestinal motility could then become as commonplace as conventional MRI . |
| 29 | Although outside temperatures in Liaoning province can become as low as minus 20C degrees , temperatures in the 130 school buildings which have already been constructed with solar heating stay comfortably at 7C to 15C degrees . |