Example sentences of "become [adj] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point the difficulties become acute and the crux sequence of moves begins . |
| 2 | As the process proceeds many blood vessels become nipped and the scar tissue changes in colour from red to white which can take many years . |
| 3 | There are big differences between individuals as well , not only in the amount of pressure they can handle before something begins to crack , but in the way they become stressed and the kinds of things that stress them . |
| 4 | They are undoubtedly right that it has now become clear that the Government will not pay for the expansion it desires at a level which will protect high quality . |
| 5 | " It had also become clear that the duty system would change to " end-product taxi which would greatly favour the king-size brands . " |
| 6 | Queries of the type ‘ Are there ? ’ or ‘ How many ? ’ become simple if the information is held in the index . |
| 7 | The informal meeting , in Hertfordshire , has now become crucial as the prospect of a trade war heightens . |
| 8 | It is likely that some degree of unity could have been achieved between them had not Mrs Webb become convinced that the division was irreconcilable and determined to make every effort to bring her proposals to fruition . |
| 9 | It can not necessarily be considered as isotropic because if highly draw the chains become oriented and the elastic and other ( for example optical ) properties differ between different directions . |
| 10 | Regardless of the political changes , she says , Russian ballet will not change until Moscow critics become honest and the West 's great choreographers are welcomed in . |
| 11 | Since 1976 the trend has been reversed , managerial values have again become predominant and the bureaucracy has expanded , albeit with some strengthening of the legislative role of the National People 's Congress and , since the Democracy Movement of 1978–80 , a strengthening of the role of ‘ workers representative congresses ’ to give workers a limited say in the management of enterprises ( White 1985 ) . |
| 12 | The action takes place thousands of miles from ‘ the perennial roar of London ’ , but the reader remains very much aware of London and the civilization it stands for as moral standards crumble ; ‘ savage ’ and ‘ white man ’ become confused until the conduct of the whites , intent on mutual destruction , seems worse than that of ‘ these poor souls — and even Sally Day , the child of cannibals , in all likelihood a cannibal himself — so faithful to what they knew of good ’ . |
| 13 | But also , in this reductio ad absurdum of masculine sexuality , men become redundant as the women threaten to perform phallic violence on themselves in the attempt to forestall male violence ( Genevora to the duellists ) : ‘ The first blow given betwixt you , sheathes these swords/In one anothers bosomes ’ ( 177 — 8 ) . |
| 14 | After a time the shorter children become submerged and the number under water increases as the ranks go forward . |
| 15 | High standards of accuracy become important if the investigator is going to employ sophisticated methods of analysing the flight recording , such as making a double integration of the vertical acceleration recording to obtain an accurate description of the shape of the flight-path perpendicular to the pitch attitude . |
| 16 | This means that the lower dentures become loose and the person has problems with eating . |
| 17 | At about 25 per cent moisture content however these hydroxyls become saturated and the cell walls can absorb no more water ; this is known as the ‘ fibre saturation point ’ . |
| 18 | It 's only as their wardrobes become full that the problem arises ; garments that turn out the wrong size are going to fill one person 's space more than another 's . |
| 19 | After a time , the white fingers become purple when the blood starts flowing sluggishly again : the fingers are then very painful . |
| 20 | But in his second phase the issues of systematicity and method become blurred and the connection with structural linguistics becomes vague . |
| 21 | With all these people formally involved it is easy for one group to lose touch or fall behind with information from other groups , and in some cases numbers become unwieldy and the investigators start tripping over each other and duplicating effort . |
| 22 | One of the major stumbling blocks in the criminal prosecution of corporations and their officials is that costs to the state become excessive as the case is stretched out for endless months and sometimes years . |
| 23 | In the case of public housing , financial control from the centre has — as we have seen — become stronger and the opportunity for local variation has been reduced . |
| 24 | Prisoners are often transferred so far away from their homes that the social problems become immense and the difficulties are exacerbated rather than diminished . |
| 25 | In this context there is always room for some sharp operator to move up the industry hierarchy of market share , although this is probably becoming more difficult as large groups become consolidated and the industry generally matures . |
| 26 | As the captions become crazier and the photos become larger , the skaters ' names become smaller . |
| 27 | As you look at the place you have chosen , daylight turns to dusk ; the colours become muted and the shadows lengthen . |
| 28 | Sail camber has been formed by use of battens , either flat or of round section in sleeves from leading to trailing edge.Tensioned into compression , the battens become curved and the degree of camber is controlled by vertical stand-offs from the forward cross-spar . |
| 29 | When a group of female mice is placed with a male their oestrus cycles become synchronized and the majority of animals will mate on the third night . |
| 30 | If the quantal size changes over time , however , the histogram peaks become smeared and the analysis can , at best , only be done for relatively brief selected periods . |