Example sentences of "do not become a " in BNC.

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31 They serve , but do not become a cultural statement .
32 That you do not become a hypochondriac .
33 In 1839 , the year of the Chartist petition to Parliament ( itself precipitated by the Act ) , Disraeli 's delinquent Lord Marney is pulling down as many of his cottages as possible so that the poor do not become a charge upon his parish .
34 Such organisations are flexible and constantly changing : they adapt to the environment in order to create or maintain the conditions necessary for success in the task , and do not become a mere part of the machinery as , for example , project teams are disbanded as soon as their task has been completed .
35 Motions debated , even if they are carried , do not become a mandate .
36 Building in opportunities for student progression is one of these , so that special courses , very necessarily built up over the last 15 years , do not become an end in themselves but rather a means towards mainstream education and training .
37 An extra incentive can be useful so long as it does not become a too regular ( relied upon ) habit .
38 It is vital that your show-jumping horse does NOT become a habitual refuser at water jumps .
39 According to a British study published in 1984 , at least three-quarters of all dog owners look to their pets to provide some security around the home , but proper training is required to ensure that your dog does not become a dominant tyrant at home .
40 Perhaps this attitude of ‘ cooling it ’ , ‘ turning off ’ , ‘ keeping his head down ’ , ‘ disengaging ’ on the part of the failing student is a special case of what Roy Cox ( 1967 ) had in mind when he said : ‘ It is clear that where students are assessed in a way which is not seen to be relevant to what they are aiming at they will tend to distort and degrade the assessment so that it does not become a source of esteem . ’
41 This view , it appears , is too simple-minded : a baby does not become a different kind of adult for being bottle-rather than breast-fed , for being weaned early rather than late , for encountering one kind of attitude rather than another at some particular time .
42 What is clear under both Article 35 and 36 is that the third party remains just that : it does not become a party to the entire treaty .
43 Foster parents are paid a weekly allowance that covers the basic costs of maintaining a child , but care is taken to see that fostering does not become a materially profitable exercise .
44 As Olivier Todd notes in his preface to the 1978 edition , " Even after leaving the PC five months later , Nizan does not become a liberal .
45 Besides , it does not become a girl to live with a master who has no lady for her to wait upon .
46 This is not just a matter of words : one does not become a member of a disciplinary community simply by having access to the latest dictionary or even the fullest encyclopaedia on the subject .
47 Stodgill wrote ( 1948 ) ‘ A person does not become a leader by virtue of the possession of some combination of traits , but the pattern of personal characteristics of the leader must bear some relevant relationship to the characteristics , activities and goals of the followers ’ .
48 However , it is important that after-care does not become a substitute for attendance at meetings of the Anonymous Fellowships or for actually working the suggested 12 Steps of recovery or for establishing a continuing relationship with a sponsor .
49 It has also been held that a wholesale sale does not become a retail sale because the goods are delivered over a period in retail quantities : Hales v. Buckley [ 1911 ] W.N. 32 .
50 The judiciary should employ substantive review as one method of ensuring that the grant of such largesse does not become a mechanism for illegitimately regulating a large number of peripherally related activities .
51 However , he does not become a member unless he elects to apply to be registered and is registered as a member .
52 This means that we have to be doubly careful to ensure that multicultural mathematics does not become a second-class mathematics curriculum for multiracial urban schools .
53 However , this does not become a major problem until the late eighteenth century .
54 It is important too that the National Curriculum does not become a strait-jacket .
55 It would be anomalous if the right to rescind was lost at an earlier date when the misrepresentation does not become a term of the contract .
56 Thirdly , the obligation to pay loan interest on the due dates creates an immediate debt between the company and the loan stock holder for which he can sue , whereas a preference dividend does not become a debt until it is declared and due .
57 Police and hospital bosses are urging staff , patients and visitors to take every precaution against crime , so that the idea of a hospital as a safe haven does not become a thing of the past .
58 The necessity therefore to ensure that size does not become an aim in itself is overriding .
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