Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] become a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Information relating to a particular employee , former employee or applicant to become an employee of , or a particular officer , former officer or applicant to become an officer appointed by a magistrates court committee or a probation committee .
2 Information relating to a particular employee , former employee or applicant to become an employee of , or a particular office-holder , former office-holder or applicant to become an office-holder under , the authority .
3 Information relating to a particular employee , former employee or applicant to become an employee of , or a particular office-holder , former office-holder or applicant to become an office-holder under , the authority .
4 Information relating to a particular employee , former employee or applicant to become an employee of , or a particular officer , former officer or applicant to become an officer appointed by a magistrates court committee or a probation committee .
5 The Odyssey or the Recherche is only , in a certain way , an amplification ( in the rhetorical sense ) of statements such as Ulysses comes home to Ithaca or Marcel becomes a writer ’ ( 1980 : 30 ) .
6 At the time I was training … to cross the abyss or pit to become an Adept .
7 When anxiety or depression becomes a way of life , however , it would be advisable to seek the help of a professional aromatherapist or other holistic therapist .
8 Placemen were seldom independent of party , since the bestowal of government favours or jobs became a way through which the governing party of the day was able to reward its followers .
9 I he fact that Ferri became a member of the Fascist movement in Italy is of concern to those who regard civil liberties as a fundamental aspect of criminal law .
10 It was not until the 17th century that Swanage became a port for tone .
11 John Lahr made the point to me that Ken became a kind of scapegoat for the problems of the play .
12 Dorothy did not care for books , so Helen became a librarian .
13 It was later that Hinchley became a teacher of chemical engineering , starting in 1909 with an evening course of twenty-five lectures and practical work at Battersea Polytechnic .
14 An underground , ‘ black ’ economy was allowed to flourish as a substitute for politically indigestible reforms , with the result that corruption became a way of life .
15 This proposed that Comex become a subsidiary of the Merc in a $10m deal .
16 In the first half of 1991 the homicide rate rose by 62 per cent , allegedly largely because of the newly opened borders , which meant also that Poland became a target for drug trafficking .
17 It was not until the industrial recovery of the thirties that Barcelona became a force in liberal politics and a significant influence in the political crises of the mid century .
18 ‘ How far is it true to say that VIETNAM became a quicksand that sucked the USA into an unwanted war ? ’
19 To its critics , the Plan conjures a grim vision of a future in which the home of the Beach Boys , fresh air and freedom becomes a battle-ground between suffocating fumes and suffocating regulations .
20 Around 1204 , however , the two quarrelled and Eustace became a fugitive : it is with his adventures in the next year or so that the biography , composed between 1223 and 1284 by an unknown poet from Picardy , is principally concerned .
21 Bishop and priests left , and Clonmacnoise became a ruin , used only as a burial ground for those who held the site forever sacred .
22 He persuaded the bishop of London to be a governor and Newton to become a deputy governor .
23 Paul took up the drums , Steve sang and Wally became a guitarist , not a bad one either , very much in the Ron Wood school .
24 If stagflation becomes a problem , then demand management policies ( both fiscal and monetary ) should be used to eliminate demand-deficient unemployment , with back-up ‘ supply-side ’ policies being used to cure the remaining unemployment .
25 But by the morning of the fifth day , rider and horse became a team , and by that afternoon Artemis and her teacher went for a stiff ten-mile hack .
26 The postwar expansion in the book market allowed for a wider distribution ( with paper covers , at lower prices ) and books became a commodity to which the newly developed sales techniques and marketing methods could be applied .
27 With class war anaesthetized by the Cold War and affluence , the generation gap and teenagers became a subject for serious observation .
28 But times changed : theatres became offices and Ruth became a typist .
29 It is often said that alcohol is ‘ the only little pleasure that old people have ’ , which may be true to an extent , but if drinking becomes a problem then it is for the individuals to decide how much of a pleasure drinking is , and whether they want help to stop .
30 In Barthes 's later work this plurality of structures and elements becomes a strength of the analysis .
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