Example sentences of "[pers pn] becomes [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that is the case , and she becomes upset , you could be very tempted to drop the whole issue , feeling that it is just ‘ not worth the candle ’ . |
| 2 | Since sociologists of deviance are interested in why people become deviant and/or perpetrate criminal acts , it is obviously important to locate the deviant , whether male or female , squarely within the social context in which he or she becomes deviant . |
| 3 | The following year brought The Miner 's Daughter in which the heroine deserts her working-man husband for the new mine-owner and his lavish apartment ; in time she becomes unhappy but is eventually reclaimed by her husband who storms into a smart reception and virtually throttles the mine-owner . |
| 4 | To Duane 's unease she becomes immediate confidant to his sharp-tongued wife — and he 's soon convinced that his inadequacies and foibles are chief topics of discussion . |
| 5 | This is not to say that there are not many households where there is peace and contentment , when the old person is fortunate enough to keep well in mind and body even when she becomes frail , and where the daughter prefers to remain at home , and is able to make a satisfying life for herself . |
| 6 | She becomes pregnant by him and is forced to leave home but is determined to keep the child . |
| 7 | Sometimes the dominant female is so powerful that only she becomes pregnant and her subordinates must await her demise before being able to breed themselves . |
| 8 | That 's a good question and that 's quite interesting , yes , they can actually if a girl has this and she becomes pregnant she has to go back on to her low protein diet while she 's pregnant in case her baby is affected right . |
| 9 | Normal life , I 'll read out to you , normal life is possible if diet during childhood is adhered to , in the female , if the female suffers , when she becomes pregnant the protein intake has to be monitored so as not to affect her developing baby . |
| 10 | The minute she becomes pregnant and ca n't hide it any more she 's actually put into prison |
| 11 | But I remember too that it was always unwise to fuss too much over what was taken for then she becomes anxious herself and her throat seizes up and nothing can go down … oh , sir , she seems very ill . ’ |
| 12 | In 1896 an American gynaecologist , Dr David Gilliam , wrote that he believed ‘ That [ female ] castration pays : that patients are improved , some of them cured , that the moral sense of the patient is elevated , that she becomes tractable , orderly , industrious and cleanly . ’ |
| 13 | Entirely encased in a latex bodysuit she becomes anonymous , even androgynous . |
| 14 | Dressing often becomes a battle at this time , as you try to hurry the process by helping where help is n't wanted and she becomes more and more frustrated when her leg goes in the wrong hole or the jumper ends up back to front . |
| 15 | In a fairy-tale scene he kisses her and she becomes beautiful , but after their betrothal she confesses her past sins and the weakness of her nature , imploring Leo to love her only in a spiritual sense . |
| 16 | But I 'm not sure whether it can be a permanent home for her because the fencing might not be good enough if she becomes lonely and tries to get out . |
| 17 | Once a minister seeks to enact policies that require the expenditure of ‘ new money ’ he or she becomes engaged in what is inevitably a more difficult political exercise . |
| 18 | She goes back to England where she becomes engaged to the ‘ suitable ’ Cecil . |
| 19 | But this is almost certainly an illusion : as she becomes surer of her hold on the affections of her poet , so she becomes surer of herself , can dispense with affectations , and dares to speak with a certain authority about compositions that her lover sends to her — animadversions that the poet in turn receives quite humbly . |
| 20 | But this is almost certainly an illusion : as she becomes surer of her hold on the affections of her poet , so she becomes surer of herself , can dispense with affectations , and dares to speak with a certain authority about compositions that her lover sends to her — animadversions that the poet in turn receives quite humbly . |
| 21 | In fact , during pregnancy , she becomes able to ingest and utilise more of the necessary substance than is required by the child alone so that by the end of pregnancy she will be better off for such substances as nitrogen , calcium etc. than she was at the beginning . |
| 22 | She becomes frightened of the foal or aggressive towards it and will not let it suckle . |
| 23 | She becomes aware of the importance of her body . |
| 24 | All the lots are unoccupied , or so she thinks until a pair of green plastic curtains suddenly swishes around the car , enfolding them in a cave of green plastic gloom and she becomes aware of other cars and bodies breathing behind green silences . |
| 25 | Hers is a one-in-a-million case which results in her turning blue and stopping breathing whenever she becomes excited or agitated . |
| 26 | This had happened to Shona , whose boyfriend encouraged her to have the baby , and then left her , with the result that whenever any subsequent boyfriends have tried to get close , she becomes cold and distant , they can not understand and eventually leave her . |
| 27 | During their subsequent separation and his long sojourn in an English prison , where he is saved from the gallows only by a last-minute reprieve , his vision of her becomes intense and idealised . |
| 28 | This can occur not only if the goods subsequently perish but also , for example , if after the contract is made , it becomes illegal to carry it out . |
| 29 | When it becomes illegal which will I 'm sure all people will abide by the law . |
| 30 | The most I have played at one time is probably seven hours and it becomes agonising , it tightens your arm up terribly . ’ |