Example sentences of "[pron] becomes [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can happen if someone becomes convinced that they are food-allergic or food-intolerant without undergoing proper diagnosis . |
| 2 | For all its yukky presentation of the leader and his wife as Mr and Mrs Extremely Normal and Nice , it was also getting at how politics is a process , how someone becomes political through a network of direct social relationships and lived experience . |
| 3 | Many people are surprised to find that when someone becomes incontinent they do n't have to stay that way . |
| 4 | ‘ What happens if someone becomes incontinent or needs nursing ? ’ he asked . |
| 5 | ‘ Someone becomes overcommitted and , before the position is recognized , starts slipping into debt in other areas without their prior knowledge of what could be involved . ’ |
| 6 | Even if someone becomes self-confident and inner-directed , that has to be constantly reinforced in the wider society if those attitudes are to be maintained . |
| 7 | If someone becomes ill with the A or C strain , household contacts of the patient should be offered this vaccine . |
| 8 | My enthusiasm for that outcome will be increased with every hospital that becomes a market-orientated trust , every school which becomes self-governing and effectively selective , every Muslim family which is divided by arbitrary immigration regulations and every youth who is driven to sleep in a shop doorway . |
| 9 | THE MAN responsible for Britain 's contribution to the Concorde programme is this country 's candidate for the top job at the European space Agency ( ESA ) , which becomes vacant in a year 's time . |
| 10 | A residence with sitting tenants will sell at a discount to its open market value , so there is a strong disincentive for landlords to relet any accommodation which becomes vacant . |
| 11 | Next turning south , it ascends the wooded approaches to the attractive Hasli valley which becomes barer and wilder in the ascent . |
| 12 | Dubois does not have the most winning of voices — there 's a suggestion of a whining edge which becomes apparent at times of stress — but he sings with some intelligence and sensitivity to the words and music . |
| 13 | It is the negative aspect which is used in prescribing , as this is the side which becomes apparent when the patient is ill . |
| 14 | Merton for example discusses the social role of the intellectual in public bureaucracy — the ‘ technological ’ wing of social science where the social function of the individual introduces a bias which becomes apparent to the objective scientist . |
| 15 | There is a large measure of agreement within the literature that the structure of bargaining which becomes associated with a particular country 's industrial relations system is not simply the result of chance occurrence or historical accident , but develops instead because of identifiable forces . |
| 16 | In the above case The Times mentioned that ‘ the rapist has been leading a fox-style existence living rough in wooded countryside ’ , but within a few months it was clear , in yet another case , that it is the nickname itself which becomes crucial rather than any particular style of existence . |
| 17 | The course follows the American precedent , with two and a half days each week allocated to in-house tuition , augmented by home study , and governed by an acronym which becomes fixed in the minds of all students : DPR , or , Daily Practise Routines . |
| 18 | The fact that the loom is horizontal means that the women have to do much of their weaving from the sides , which becomes impossible if the rugs are too wide ; consequently , nomadic rugs tend to be either small , or long and narrow . |
| 19 | Comparable judgments used terms like ‘ lewd ’ , ‘ offensive ’ , ‘ recognised standards of propriety ’ and ‘ the ordinary modesty of the average man ’ , all of them largely subjective responses to behaviour which is legal in itself , but which becomes unacceptable when viewed by others . |
| 20 | Selectors deal with material which becomes available and unavailable on an irregular and increasingly unpredictable basis . |
| 21 | Teachers who on their own make the effort to design appropriate materials are doing a great and necessary job in the promotion of community languages , adding to the growing storehouses of available approaches : working groups for the creation of teaching materials can make this activity more efficient and exciting , especially when headteachers can be convinced of the value of such activities in the framework of the normal timetable of departmental meetings , perhaps using ‘ slack time ’ which becomes available during examination periods . |
| 22 | They may also be easier to negotiate through strictures because of a hydrophilic coating which becomes slippery when wet . |
| 23 | It is not necessary to consider volume alone as the " excess ' parameter which becomes significant at Tg . |
| 24 | The solutions of equations ( 9.76 ) are the physical meaning of which becomes clear on appreciating that the propagation constant is complex , say , and that , , and are phasors relating to quantities of the form . |
| 25 | The 180 foot tower is ascended by climbing a narrow spiral staircase , which becomes narrower and narrower as one reaches the top . |
| 26 | There is a formlessness to the films of the period , which becomes most apparent in such big films as Richardson 's The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1968 ) , which culminates in one of the greatest anti-climaxes of cinema history , or Isadora ( 1969 ) , where the dancer 's sublimely silly death offers a decisive , but hardly stirring , conclusion to the film 's chronological narrative of her stormy loves , ideas about dancing and travels through Europe . |
| 27 | This form of ‘ transition ’ from residential care or the family into homelessness can instil a sense of despair and dependency which becomes habitual . |
| 28 | An analysis of feminine and masculine symbolism delivered at a conference on ‘ archetypology ’ characterizes ‘ inversion by double negation ’ as ‘ typical of the imaginative function in its descending aspect of depth , night , femininity , container which becomes contained , swallower which becomes swallowed ’ as opposed to the ‘ upward masculine aspect ’ ( 109/503 ) . |
| 29 | Prices tend to be omitted from publishers ' catalogues ( or given in a separate leaflet which becomes detached from the main catalogue ) . |
| 30 | As the amino acids are brought into position they connect with each other and build up a protein , which becomes detached from the messenger RNA and is used by the cell . |