Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] becomes a " in BNC.

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1 ( 7 ) If an employee of the Council becomes a member of the Council and was by reference to his employment by the Council a participant in a pension scheme such as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( 5 ) above —
2 The difference of the other becomes a displaced and intensified facet of the same , the object of desire and disgust .
3 The digging stick of the forest becomes a spade , still with a wooden handle ; lianes lead to ropes and string , bark and palm fibre to textiles , palm leaves to thatching and bamboos to piping .
4 So the structure of the essay becomes a comparison of claims made from differing viewpoints , assessing the validity and appropriateness of each .
5 In the mid-1990s , object-oriented programming promises to bring the next irresistible revolution , but until that happens , no-one should be too surprised if the mass of desktop users splits into two camps , one that goes down the Unix-with-everything route , the other that decides as a matter of policy to remain in the ‘ do n't know ’ came , judging MS-DOS with a touch of Windows here and there to be good enough for the next three or four years until the picture of the future becomes a bit clearer .
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