Example sentences of "and become [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not itself a centre of manufacturing , but it outstripped all other ports as a point of transit for English exports and became thereby a major entrepot of international trade . |
| 2 | His red , lumpy features were transfigured and he stopped being a badly assembled mass of fleshy fragments and became instead a vital man . |
| 3 | LABOUR 'S policy review was a symbol of the party renewing itself and becoming again a force for change , Tom Sawyer , deputy general secretary of Nupe , the public sector workers ' union , said at the start of four days of debate on the review reports . |
| 4 | Around the turn of the century , there was much disenchantment with freemasonry because it was negating its original secrets of the occult and becoming more a social club and friendly society . |
| 5 | the conventional , derogatory association of the female sex with nature and flesh have been reversed , and become instead a newfoundland |
| 6 | The negative value attached to bodily traces , processes , imprints , and the conventional , derogatory association of the female sex with nature and flesh have been reversed , and become instead a newfoundland , a reservoir , a resource . |
| 7 | Rot on the vine ’ ) , its heedlessness ( ‘ with careless hand ’ ) , and its enervation ( its land is ‘ tired ’ , its conquest of that terrain ‘ unmanned ’ ) — that he would like if he could to unravel the threads of history , and become again a citizen of that Old World which his ancestors should never have left . |
| 8 | This impulse is figured partly in geographical terms ( as Jerome Klinkowitz has noted , ‘ Out moves from the clutter and hassle of the East to the pure space of an empty California beach ’ ( Klinkowitz 1980 : 137 ) ) and partly by shifting the names of the characters and the nature of their situations , so that travelling ceases to be a realistic indication of movement and becomes instead a metaphor for textual purpose . |
| 9 | If it is directed against an opponent it ceases to be self-suffering and becomes instead a form of coercion , which is an aspect of violence , and as such unacceptable . |
| 10 | Racism is ‘ naturalized ’ to the point where it ceases to be a cultural norm ( and as such contestable ) and becomes instead a quasi-biological trait , a symptom of inherent individual pathology . |
| 11 | If no question of change arises then evaluation is deprived of point and becomes instead a public relations exercise service to induce feelings-of-being-consulted in the course consumers , or feelings-of-being-valuable in the course presenters . |
| 12 | In the second chapter of his work , Simmel traces the manner in which coinage as the medium used for money gradually loses any intrinsic value , and becomes exclusively a symbol for all other relationships . |
| 13 | The Tory nightmare ought to be that Labour revamps itself yet again and becomes truly a centrist democrat party , committed to sound money , tight budgets , and moderate taxation . |
| 14 | Acceptance of pain was the bridge that enabled a girl to relinquish her hope that her clitoris would become a penis , and to become instead a mature woman whose sexuality was focused upon her vagina . |