Example sentences of "[pron] becomes a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose in one way as a pensioner I shall say what happens about you know I 'm not worried about if you 're a pensioner because every time one someone becomes a deferred pensioner , our surplus goes up |
| 2 | Now if you 're if somebody becomes a persistent discounter first of all they 'll they 'll question it back at head office . |
| 3 | It was not natural in Shakespeare 's day for parents to kneel to their offspring so when his children try to gain authority over him Lear is so enraged he goes mad and the outer conflict between Regan , Goneril and himself becomes an inner struggle for his sanity . |
| 4 | In anorexia nervosa , which becomes a living death , the same connections are prevalent , together with the same confusing implications . |
| 5 | The one surprising tempo on this disc is that of the minuet , marked Allegretto by Haydn but here taken very smartly , faster , in fact , than the Allegro minuet of No. 102 : if the music sounds less massively symphonic than it can ( sf accents are again a touch comfortable ) it has an engaging spring , especially the trio , which becomes a one-in-a-bar waltz rather than a Ländler . |
| 6 | This sequence is repeated again and again with different emphases , suggesting that the novel is constantly reenacting a threshold experience which becomes a powerful metaphor of its own formal nature . |
| 7 | By aspiring to the attributes and privileges of the dominant class , she becomes a double deviant : female , to be sure , but refusing the constraints of the ascribed status ’ ( 1975 : 53 ) . |
| 8 | She slips on a bright red party dress and she becomes a fun teenager . |
| 9 | She becomes an unmistakable symbol for all the courageous daughters of faithless fathers . |
| 10 | David Lynch has optioned D M Thomas ' story of Freud , a woman and Russia , The White Hotel , and has a more obviously Lynchian novel in development , Delacorta 's Vida , about a 16-year-old who becomes a private eye just as someone starts shooting the architects of America . |
| 11 | The other two were The Citadel ( 1938 ) , from A. J. Cronin 's novel about a once-idealistic doctor who becomes a cynical practitioner to the upper classes until the death of his friend on the operating table leads to a revival of his old principles , and Goodbye Mr Chips ( 1939 ) , a hymn to the glories of the English public school . |
| 12 | Christopher Lambert stars as cold-hearted chess grandmaster Peter Sanderson who becomes a serial-killer suspect . |
| 13 | John Theakston , finance director , is replacing joint managing director Derek Ridout , who becomes a non-executive director . |
| 14 | I 'd like to show a civilised man who turns barbarian , and a barbarian who becomes a civilised man — to develop that contrast between two worlds that end up merging … |
| 15 | It affects not only who becomes an unpaid carer but also is relevant to two other dimensions of this issue : who receives care , and what kind of support is given . |
| 16 | Winona Ryder is the reluctant member of the elite ‘ Heathers ’ crowd who becomes an unwitting murderess after hooking up with the new boy at school , rough diamond Christian Slater — giving his best Jack Nicholson impersonation . |
| 17 | One becomes a privileged member of the tribe . |
| 18 | alone , it becomes a sad reflection of what has been . |
| 19 | A firm tap on the hindquarters , accompanied by ‘ no ’ and ‘ bed ’ if appropriate , depending on the room , should put a stop to this destructive behaviour before it becomes a serious problem . |
| 20 | I think that we look very favourably on schemes whereby an education process is involved erm where there are workshops and performance , but it becomes a total package in itself — it 's not just a performance for an ethnic minority , but it 's one that represents the fact that we live in a multi-cultural society itself . |
| 21 | In effect , Barth simultaneously reworks texts and multiplies the dimensions to LETTERS so that it becomes a protean work , constantly shifting resemblances . |
| 22 | Let us say that we decide to change the ‘ unit-points ’ allocated to the Basic category of ‘ status ’ in the modules from 8 to 6 , it becomes a simpler matter in the TNF module . |
| 23 | Too easily it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy : ‘ We ca n't expect the majority of students to do very well — so do n't blame us for the failures . ’ |
| 24 | And once this kind of polarization is set in motion , it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in which everyone who is not with us is against us . |
| 25 | If semantics is modified to take account of deixis , it becomes a context-conditional semantics , and the boundary between semantics and pragmatics becomes very blurred . |
| 26 | This is a provision which is usually inserted , since , once an order has been placed , it becomes a separate contract , with a life of its own , and stands or falls on the terms and conditions which govern it . |
| 27 | Howard might have a seven-year itch over that wonderful side he built , and maybe the board should find some cash before it becomes a terminal rash . |
| 28 | When a man has cut down a bamboo it becomes a straight pole with a cylindrical hole down the middle , but that is not how it appears in the wild . |
| 29 | All 3three squadrons at Upper Heyford will go by December , when it becomes a standby base . |
| 30 | Unless , of course , all the symptoms are like that in which case it becomes a general symptom and might point towards a remedy like Ferrum phos . |