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

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1 ‘ It 's becoming just a fashion statement .
2 became just a kind of foreman , or perhaps a member of lower managerial supervisory staff … the employers appear to have been determined to take the important decisions themselves rather than leave the butty with a significant degree of independence , as the modernity and high level of mechanization of the new pits perhaps dictated .
3 Now , the coal crisis is so acute that steam locos on the mountain could become just a memory unless the present oil firing experiments at Snowdon are a success .
4 ‘ The Satanic Verses has the good fortune of having become just a novel again , and I 'm very happy for it .
5 The unions or union branches organising workers less crucial to capital are weaker , till at the lowest stage of trade union structure the union becomes just a formality .
6 He opens his mouth and suddenly the ‘ loutish threat ’ becomes just a boy who ca n't see any future .
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