Example sentences of "it [adv] become a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sceptics argued that there was no real difference between a right and a duty ; once it was laid down when auditors would be expected to use their right to report , it effectively became a duty . |
| 2 | It only became a god in Hellenistic times when it was worshipped under the name ‘ Aion ’ , but that signified a sacred , eternal time which was very different from ordinary time , chronos . |
| 3 | While a certain amount of stress can be positive — it provides energy which enables us to do the things we want to do — it only becomes a problem if it develops into distress . |
| 4 | It only becomes a problem if the environment encourages it to grow excessively . |
| 5 | It only becomes a mystery because we notice that there are too few facts to draw a conclusion . |
| 6 | However , it is deemed unlikely to reactivate the effort despite contentions that the Intel work taking priority — largely the stuff of Open Desktop 2.0 coming out this summer — could be easily ported to the MIPS platform should it suddenly become a volume player . |
| 7 | They get you in individually , and sort of reveal embarrassing personal stories , and there 's , I mean it just becomes a battleground , your house for , for the weekend . |
| 8 | ‘ When you 've got targets and incentives it just becomes a family planning programme and not much more than that ’ Tricia Parker , Oxfam Bangladesh |
| 9 | And then it just became a drug that I had to take for every day use . |
| 10 | Does it just become a disguise for who you really are ? |
| 11 | It soon became a case of ‘ Advance Australia Fair ’ on almost every front . |
| 12 | I started on the full golf tour , but it soon became a choice of golf or my family . |
| 13 | It soon became a matter of urgency . |
| 14 | At first he may look funny chatting away silently but it soon becomes a bore . |
| 15 | It thus becomes a matter of the sensitivity of investment to changes in interest rates , i.e. what is the interest-elasticity of investment ? |
| 16 | It rapidly became a staple , and has remained the major crop throughout the modern period . |
| 17 | Then not having it rapidly became a sign of poverty . |
| 18 | Organized exclusively by women , it quickly became a symbol not only of peace but also of the values of the women 's movement . |
| 19 | Its forgiving nature and subsequent popularity proved to be the Kiwi 's downfall however : ordinary palates quickly developed a taste for it too and , from being a deli or specialist greengrocery item , requiring hours to track down ( note the vital equation : time to spare + money to spare = status ) it quickly became a supermarket staple in the expanding section of exotics . |
| 20 | It was severely under-funded , and it quickly became a horse infirmary primarily , and a teaching body secondarily . |
| 21 | As a successful town , it is not unlikely that it also became a pagus centre for part of the Dobunni and additionally the residence of the regionarius mentioned above ( p. 34 ) . |
| 22 | Membership of a " terrorist group " was punishable by five years ' imprisonment and it also became a crime to possess " directly or indirectly " written or recorded materials condoning " terrorist " activity . |
| 23 | For record companies , it now became a question of who could pay the most money to secure the most in-demand acts . |
| 24 | While the contest was initially between reformist and hardline factions within the ruling PLA , it increasingly became a struggle against , as well as within the ruling party , culminating in widespread protests in December [ see p. 37924 ] . |
| 25 | It then became a part of Lewisham , but obtained a separate entity as an Urban District on the 15 May 1900 . |
| 26 | It then became a committee affair , with monthly meetings starting in February . |
| 27 | The winner 's conker was then a oner , when it had disposed of two it became a twoer , but if it should then beat a threeer it then became a fiver . |
| 28 | It then becomes a matter of supreme importance that teachers should be fair and exact in deeming their pupils ‘ ready ’ for a test ; for it would be disastrous if a sense of failure were introduced again , by pupils being entered for tests they had no hope of passing . |
| 29 | It almost becomes a treasury , rather than a tax exercise . ’ |
| 30 | It naturalises itself so easily that it almost becomes a weed . |