Example sentences of "become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some schools auction off the gifts at the end of the service but if the bid for the produce does n't equal the cost price parents can become upset when other , possibly more prosperous , families are buying their gifts at a discount ! |
| 2 | It is important that the ferrets should not become upset or bewildered and , just as I condition my loose ferrets to muzzles before working them while wearing one , I find that it pays to give line ferrets the opportunity to become accustomed to both collar and line . |
| 3 | Clients who needed money would become upset at what they considered inappropriate questioning , but this would suggest to the workers that they had touched a sensitive point , confirming some personal theory that it was not really money that the clients required . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , but one does n't want to unsettle the other cats , and Faustina herself might become upset . ’ |
| 5 | If prices remained high for a number of years it would become economic to develop marginal deposits in other parts of the world , such as Indonesia , New Guinea , New Caledonia , Peru and the US . |
| 6 | The economy must become economic . |
| 7 | The leaders of the Labour Party only just managed to hold the party to a ( common-sense ) multilateralist line on disarmament against increasingly emotional demands that unilateralism , already espoused by the Liberal Party , should become Labour Party policy as well . |
| 8 | Given the 74 years of Communist dictatorship and the long period of Tsarist dictatorship before that , is it not essential to provide aid and assistance so that at long last Russia and the countries associated with the former Soviet Union can become stable democracies ? |
| 9 | I have avoided getting involved , however , because I believe the subject would become obsessive and I would become introspective . |
| 10 | Do n't become obsessive about weighing yourself — I very rarely step on the scales . |
| 11 | His fascination for words would often keep him awake at night as the poetry of the place is a kind of Rubik 's cube which can become obsessive . |
| 12 | By the same token , permanent grassland that is overgrazed by growing youngstock or milch cows and never cut will become deficient in phosphorus and calcium and may lose structure from poaching . |
| 13 | The results are dramatic — but how does the body become deficient in vitamin E , what is its role in human nutrition and why does its absence sabotage the nervous system ? |
| 14 | With luck the conversation is defused into either mice or begonias , and then you will get a chance to get a word in edgeways rather than listen to a lecture which could become controversial or boring ( and hard work to speechread ) . |
| 15 | Well this is where the problem of levying charges does become controversial . |
| 16 | However , if they are attracted to The Wedding Present because of their stark honesty , they must accept opinions contrary to their own emanating from the group , and at the same time , the band must not become contemptuous . |
| 17 | It has to be said that some species are notoriously difficult to acclimatise to aquarium life when collected from the wild , but once the acclimatisation process is complete they will usually become resilient and even robust . |
| 18 | True homophony — where all parts move exactly together — can become monotonous and inflexible , so composers frequently introduce a little independent movement among the voice parts ( Example 65 ) . |
| 19 | If short and simple sentences dominate your writing , however , it may become monotonous . |
| 20 | Other research suggested they might become concentrated , churned around in the waves and eventually deposited back along the beaches and banks of local estuaries . |
| 21 | These could become European champions , most notably Volkswagen , which recently purchased Seat in Spain , Skoda in Czechoslovakia and has built a factory in East Germany . |
| 22 | There may be a Reynolds number above which a pipe flow with a normal entry length will always become turbulent through the amplification of small disturbances . |
| 23 | We may become timid because we 're avoiding risks . |
| 24 | For example , a person who early on in life formed the assumption that they had to have everybody 's approval in order to be happy , could become depressed if they did not subsequently secure the approval of someone important to them . |
| 25 | Prison official David Seary , who is hoping to introduce the scheme next year at Birmingham 's Winson Green Jail , said : ‘ Young inmates can become depressed , even to the point of taking their own lives . |
| 26 | ‘ I have to be quite hard on her sometimes because I have so much to sort out I ca n't let myself become depressed about it too . |
| 27 | A more socially isolated person might become depressed and forgetful , and not be able to cope . |
| 28 | Thus member countries may gradually become depressed areas of the Community . |
| 29 | She said in the month before the killing he 'd become depressed putting on four stone in weight and losing interest in life . |
| 30 | But he 'd become depressed about his exams and could n't concentrate on his work . |