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

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1 By this means the most appropriate course of action often becomes apparent .
2 Feeling something very strongly in our mind often becomes communicable to the horse .
3 But as Laurie Taylor and others have shown ( Taylor , 1976 ) , terms which originally begin life as terms of abuse or disapproval often become used by the victims of the term to mean something quite different .
4 A one-way system meant that out of season hold-ups were rare , but in the peak summer months when the holidaymakers poured in by the dozens in their hire cars the village often became jammed .
5 But the converted ‘ Die-Hard ’ cynic often becomes the best ambassador for the company .
6 In short , replication often becomes impossible .
7 What often begins with a vision of racism as a global force of evil often becomes focused down into a conspiracy directed against a chosen people in a way which invests their suffering and sacrifices with a special redemptive meaning .
8 But when non-performing songwriters became successful , with their songs being recorded by major artists , and used in films or as TV commercials , then the need for a manager often becomes more pressing .
9 The student often becomes bored with the endless repetition of drills ; he is not necessarily able to transfer the patterns he has practised into creative communication outside a classroom situation ; and he does not necessarily know how and when it is appropriate to use the structures he has practised .
10 Men 's unfaithfulness is rarely made the focus of a condemnatory press report during the trial , while women 's infidelity as the cause of trouble often becomes a major theme .
11 Having become aware of the difference , a deep-seated bias often becomes evident as the individual concludes that his or her way of thinking and behaving is better just because it is different .
12 Style often becomes as big a bugbear as colour schemes and for the same reason ; it means laying what passes for your taste on the table for all to judge .
13 High inflation in recent years has shown that a good pension often becomes a desirable part of employment .
14 This is because health and the quality and availability of health care often become the focus of community struggle .
15 In such a situation , the necessary intellectual detachment often becomes difficult to sustain .
16 But the problem often becomes more complex than this .
17 To his surprise Hahnemann discovered that remedies prepared in this way often became more powerful therapeutic agents than the original starting materials — a purely empirical observation .
18 During the pre-school period of childhood sexual curiosity often becomes marked , both in exploration of the child 's own body and as regards other children .
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