Example sentences of "[adv] becomes [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a bit difficult , I think , to follow , and what Proust means perhaps becomes clearer in a story which he himself told on more than one occasion about the painter Turner . |
| 2 | The problem only becomes worse where the end results — the rate of pay , or the hours worked , or the promotion achieved — are easily quantified and compared . |
| 3 | The onset of the disease is very gradual and breathlessness only becomes troublesome when about half of the lung has been destroyed . |
| 4 | In contrast , an interim dividend only becomes due when it is paid ( Potel v IRC ( 1970 ) 4 TC 658 ) . |
| 5 | It is probably a lot more common than is generally realized , a background ‘ noise ’ which only becomes noticeable when emphasized to such a degree that we can no longer ignore it . |
| 6 | But it can be said that enjoyment of pornography , at any level , only becomes deviant when it replaces normal sexual activity or when the latter becomes totally dependent upon pornography for initial excitation/maintenance of stimulus . |
| 7 | The price of petrol thus has to reflect the cost of a single-occupant trip by bus or rail , so that private motoring only becomes cheaper if the car has more than one occupant . |
| 8 | The François vase is a krater ( mixing-bowl for wine and water ) , a shape with many varieties of which this , with high-swung volute-handles , only becomes regular in clay later . |
| 9 | Some camcorders — and some operators — are much quieter than others , and the problem only becomes acute when you are recording indoors under quiet conditions ; outdoors , these unwanted sounds tend to be lost in the general background . |
| 10 | It may at times become chaotic and disordered , but that , that 's not the normal state of affairs , and Hobbes ' analysis of social order leads him to conclude that social order only becomes possible , when individuals give up some of their freedom , to centralize authority . |
| 11 | It only becomes that towards the end . |
| 12 | The care which other carers might give to the child only becomes relevant if the threshold test is met . |
| 13 | For Friedman the realized decline in the measured real wage rate — a decline which only becomes apparent to workers with the passage of time — was sufficient incentive for employers to take on more labour . |
| 14 | The research found that alpha rays may cause damage to cells which only becomes apparent much later when abnormal chromosomes appear . |
| 15 | Towards the end of this time , the mother looks as though she has a bunch of pink grapes on her underside and clambering about the branches or running over uneven ground not only becomes awkward for her but looks distinctly uncomfortable for her young . |
| 16 | The SFO only becomes involved in cases where more than £1 million is involved , and most cases tend to come from the DTI . |
| 17 | No one would say that the need only becomes immediate when rain is imminent ; the need is immediate from the start because rain is certain to fall some time . |
| 18 | First , by what mechanism are the demand and price signals so efficiently and rapidly diffused among all of the islands while information about events on other islands only becomes available : gradually ? |
| 19 | Like every other sport , abseiling only becomes dangerous when people are negligent . |
| 20 | This asymmetry involved in the distinction between two types of justification only becomes dangerous when one supposes that all basic ( non-inferentially justified ) beliefs concern the nature of the believer 's present sensory states . |
| 21 | It only becomes conspicuous after an attack has started , and never provokes that attack . |
| 22 | The and ratios , plotted against the maturity of the unheated coals ( Fig. 5 ) , show that the composition of the Palaeozoic coal gas remains constant until a reflectance of 1.2–1.3% and only becomes drier at higher maturities . |
| 23 | The end of this breakwater only becomes clear when fairly close , but otherwise the approaches to the main port are simple . |
| 24 | The importance of the procedural knowledge underlying the task only becomes clear in unusual circumstances , where for example the performance of a procedure is interrupted or the precise requirements are changed , e.g. when driving a new vehicle with different control characteristics . |
| 25 | Rainbow herself only becomes aware of her own performance when she finishes singing , and is greeted by a scandalised silence . |
| 26 | Even this only becomes valuable when you are below 1000 feet , by which time , of course , you will have moved closer to the gliding site or nearer to a suitable field if you are flying across country . |
| 27 | For the animal-watcher this strategy only becomes obvious when , from a hidden viewpoint , it is possible to see the predator approaching from the far side of the prey . |
| 28 | It is unlikely that any report in the UK would be so brutally honest , but it accurately describes our situation , except that the inadequate nature of our provision for many students has long been recognised by many educators , and only becomes important to others through economic necessity . |
| 29 | In practice , inter-Service rivalry only becomes unbridled when there is a danger — real or anticipated — of the balance between the Services being upset ; or of the structure of one of them being changed in a revolutionary rather than an evolutionary way . |
| 30 | This only becomes significant when calculating record sizes for random access files . |