Example sentences of "become as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm If you were not so much an artist as a technician , you became as a technician interested in what this camera of yours could do , and therefore George Albert Smith , who was primarily I would say a technical man rather than an artist , he was very interested in the trick film . |
| 2 | The land revenue tax ( at first as much as a third of a peasant 's gross yearly produce ) had to be paid no matter how bad the harvest or how impoverished the family became as a result . |
| 3 | This examination of the range and extent of sex crime reporting shows both how pervasive sexual violence has become as a news item , and also how only a very small number of cases are selected as being ‘ newsworthy ’ . |
| 4 | But the more genuine the competition , the more ineffective do government-imposed controls become as a way of affecting enterprise behaviour , since it must increasingly be governed by the ‘ logic ’ of the market rather than of political control . |
| 5 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 6 | The older a database is , the richer it becomes as a reference about customers and their views of you . |