Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] becomes a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A naughty child will , in this respect , suffer from either a diminution of moral status or , if the fault becomes a seasoned trait , a bad reputation . |
| 2 | Saliva glands produce only 10 ml at night compared with 500 ml during the day , so the mouth becomes a stagnant pond for more than 1,600 billion bacteria overnight . |
| 3 | The holding becomes a slave-driving tyrant . |
| 4 | The foal becomes a social animal and part of the herd , and as it matures it is likely to take a similar place in the social hierarchy of the herd as its mother . |
| 5 | The sodomite becomes a virulent image of this threat , embodying a foreign infection which in turn is linked to social disorder and economic collapse at home . |
| 6 | So the dream becomes a symbolic expression of this conflict and what very often happens is the there 's a kind of compromise in which you go off and look for the bathroom or the drink of water or whatever it is you want , but the dream keeps postponing you finding it , in order to lengthen the dream and the state of sleep , so you go on sleeping for a bit longer . |
| 7 | With practice , teething troubles such as these get ironed out and the Femidom becomes a happy rival to your Mates , Durex , or Jiffy . |
| 8 | Marx 's argument that the proletariat becomes a revolutionary force because : machinery reduces differences thus homogenising the labour force ; the nature of work in a modern factory requires organisation ; and the exploitation of the industrial system leads to poverty and alienation , can be applied to rural society in Latin America . |
| 9 | The alternative method is to provide that upon any adjustment of the base figure , the rent payable immediately before the adjustment becomes a fixed amount payable under the terms of the lease ( or is substituted for a fixed amount previously reserved ) . |
| 10 | The child becomes a discursive subject when it succeeds in controlling the departure and return of its mother through symbolic mastery . |
| 11 | For younger citizens , going to the disco becomes a risky venture ; householders in urban centres suffer disturbances as pubs and clubs with late licences disgorge their clients ; car owners fight a daily battle against thieves . |
| 12 | The mound becomes a temporary shrine . |
| 13 | After the autumn and winter rains the stream becomes a raging torrent , flowing in places along a deep ravine . |
| 14 | Many an enthusiast committed to achieving high standards has found that all of the painstaking preparation can be ruined if the aquarium becomes a miniature battlefield once the livestock is introduced . |
| 15 | After the initial stimulus , which is usually an intention to commence the action , the completion of a response acts as the stimulus for subsequent responses , so that the chain becomes a smooth action . |
| 16 | Eventually , the song becomes a real-time simulation of a locked groove , an out-of-control roller-coaster of dread but also of resilience : ‘ And the Mercy Seat is waiting/And I think my head is burning/And in a way I 'm yearning/To be done with all this measuring of proof/An eye for an eye/And a tooth for a tooth/And anyway I told the truth/And I 'm not afraid to die . ’ |
| 17 | It is through the conception of historical time as a continuum that the past becomes a coherent object . |
| 18 | The past becomes a projected image created retrospectively at every moment , just as a ‘ biogram ’ is ‘ the abstracted absolute of your conscious patterns throughout your life ’ . |
| 19 | During earthquakes the soil becomes a semiliquid soup that no longer supports the weight of the buildings above . |
| 20 | In this case the Project becomes a temporary centre and they sit the exams there . |
| 21 | There is a period of instability , but finally the outer layers are puffed away , and the star becomes a planetary nebula — a bad term , because a planetary nebula is not truly a nebula and has nothing whatsoever to do with a planet . |
| 22 | I love Moscow , and I think its beauties are many , but I think also that only the Van Cliburn coalition , casting its own magic so thick around itself that all the world becomes a glittering study in delight , could make one feel that it is the happiest and nicest and most cosy-comfortable spot on earth . |
| 23 | Four poles are inserted into external sleeves and placed into their respective eyelets at ground level so the flysheet becomes a free standing structure . |
| 24 | However , subsequently they become more closely packed and release their granules and the plug becomes a dense mass of interdigitated platelets . |
| 25 | The pair of rotating arms can be easily lifted off , when the unit becomes a standard fountain . |
| 26 | The transition from a pidgin to a creole language takes place when the pidgin becomes a native language for some of its speakers . |
| 27 | the light and then the catch becomes a poor resemblance |
| 28 | However , in the novel 's final text the shapka becomes a peaked cap ( kartuz ) and Shaposhnikov 's name gets changed to Shatov which has nothing to do with caps or hats at all . |
| 29 | The gene becomes a living part of the ecosystem . ’ |
| 30 | In this way , such a configuration becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy , because people come to form their self-understanding on the basis of ‘ psychologism ’ and the theory seems to be confirmed in people 's experience as a result of this process . |