Example sentences of "becomes the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Wales one empty bay is normally used as a holding and catching pen and the centre bay becomes the shearing shed . |
| 2 | The allocation of the increment becomes the key decision . |
| 3 | This line becomes the key passage in the great scene in Act Two when , after church , the Borough is aroused to invade Grimes 's hut . |
| 4 | So clearly in that light I would say that rail and bus need to be bracketed together so a an ability to erm serve the new settlement by public transport becomes the key consideration . |
| 5 | Identity here as everywhere else is relational — an effect produced through product ‘ differentiation ’ and market ‘ placement ’ and increasingly the ‘ look ’ becomes the distinguishing factor . |
| 6 | Club racing tends to be fun and competitive , without being too serious , and usually becomes the principal activity for many dinghy sailors . |
| 7 | Secondly , there are deeper connections between care-giving and the social construction of masculine and feminine identities , as Ungerson ( 1983 ) and Graham have explored : ‘ Caring ’ becomes the category through which one sex is differentiated from the other … it becomes the defining characteristic of [ women 's ] self-identity ’ ( Graham , 1983 , p. 18 ) . |
| 8 | Gradually , however , Paul 's position becomes the only one whereby sense can be made of the situation . |
| 9 | Art therapy , for many Disabled people , becomes the only involvement in the arts , and gives rise to a different experience of the arts from that of non-Disabled people . |
| 10 | By lifting the ban Tanzania becomes the only country in East Africa to permit elephant hunting . |
| 11 | the prospective purchaser suggested by a Network member becomes the successful purchaser |
| 12 | This is the means by which LCH becomes the exclusive counterparty to both seller and buyer in respect of a contract made between them on the market . |
| 13 | This lays the foundations for the differentiation of the chorioallantoic placenta , which eventually becomes the major nutritional and respiratory organ of the conceptus . |
| 14 | Moreover , the depreciation debate will be ‘ dusted off ’ after years of shelf-life and revisited in more depth as depreciation becomes the major cost . |
| 15 | Capitalism and the sterner Puritan ethic are delighted with hedonism as a private way of life because hedonism encourages consumerism , and consumerism becomes the economic mode of hedonism for modern man . |
| 16 | As medical care improves , a much more ‘ beehive ’ shaped profile becomes the standard pattern with death being fairly unlikely before the age of about 60 , at which point the remaining scourges of cancer and heart disease maintain the pyramid form for the older age groups . |
| 17 | The ‘ white race ’ thus becomes the chief victim of its own myth ( 1973 , p.197 ) . |
| 18 | becomes the chief mystery — |
| 19 | Hamlet advertisements rely on the ‘ humour of suffering ’ , featuring unfortunates scrabbling under lavatory doors for errant rolls of loo paper or watching airport carousels chew up their luggage : the victim , by lighting a Hamlet cigar , becomes the spiritual victor . |
| 20 | The amended motion takes the place of the original motion and becomes the substantive motion . |
| 21 | When the amendment is carried , it becomes the substantive motion and when it is put to the vote you vote against it since you would prefer to give nothing rather than £15 . |
| 22 | Secondary schools are also keen to establish positive relationships with neighbouring primary schools so that their school becomes the automatic choice of child and parent for the next phase of education . |
| 23 | Blending indissolubly with the untamed forces of hostile nature , the witch becomes the vicious foe of everything that society approves . |
| 24 | It becomes the strong equivalence principle ( SEP ) which states the following : |
| 25 | … he becomes the Phantom Fiddler of the Playhouse . |
| 26 | A volunteer tries to retrieve the keys without being caught out and , if successful , becomes the new ‘ keeper ’ ) . |
| 27 | To provide a smooth endpoint value , we replace y 1 by z 1 , the median of y , y 1 and z 2 ; in this case , the median of 42.2 , 40 and 45.2 is 42.2 , so this becomes the new , smoothed endpoint value . |
| 28 | To do this , the residuals are next treated as new Y data , and the procedure of line fitting is repeated ; the fourth column of figure 10.6 becomes the new column of Y s , the X s remain as they were , and the calculations are performed as before . |
| 29 | This exceeds the value of the current incumbent ( z = 19 ) , so z is updated to 20 and ( 3 , 1 , 1 ) becomes the new incumbent . |
| 30 | The winner becomes the new Warboss . |