Example sentences of "can become [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This unit can become bound to others only by his own free choice , and his choice is rational only in so far as he can safely expect it to serve his own interests . |
| 2 | Adhesion is not defined in the Vienna Convention but is accepted as a way in which a third party can become bound to certain parts of a treaty , but not its entirety . |
| 3 | The lower-level subskills involved in word recognition can become automatised through practice , and this is necessary so that the reader 's mind can be left free to attempt alternate integrations in order to calculate the writer 's intended meaning . |
| 4 | This means that a necessary emphasis has to be made on respectability , hard work , thrift and respect for law , so that marginalisation can become extended into criminalisation . |
| 5 | Researchers have recently discovered small regions of genetic material in animal cells that can become detached from the chromosomes , enjoy an independent existence for a while , and then re-integrate at a different chromosomal location . |
| 6 | Pupils can become fascinated by mathematical contradictions and absurdities and are motivated by mathematical activity itself . |
| 7 | Thirdly , the witness 's own memory can become corrupted in the course of the interrogation . |
| 8 | The practice is dubious anyway as larger containers of detergent can become contaminated by certain bacteria , often pseudomonads , and act as reservoirs of infection or spoilage . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , therefore , entrepreneurs and managers can become locked into an existing company structure which may perform not particularly well but adequately enough to survive , or to survive while its position is steadily being undermined by import penetration . |
| 10 | But sometimes the sciatic nerve can become irritated by a lack of blood supply . |
| 11 | Conversely , people can become possessed by animal souls . |
| 12 | Similarly depth of feeling can become equated with prejudice , and the arousal of emotions in schools can become indoctrination . |
| 13 | Consequently , a semantic theory can become plagued by a proliferation of hypothetical senses and internal contradictions in ways we shall spell out below . |
| 14 | ‘ You can become glued to the screen , ’ she said . |
| 15 | It is most active in arid environments where rates of evaporation are high relative to precipitation , and consequently surface and soil waters can become saturated with respect to a variety of salts . |
| 16 | In general , the only way by which you can become acquainted with the correspondence student is through the student 's attempts at solutions and possibly by questions on specific difficulties . |
| 17 | We understand how deeply people can become attached to sacred objects . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the same attitudes can become attached to concepts which , in origin , laid no claim to common ethnicity . |
| 19 | People can become attached to any or all of these sorts of object . |
| 20 | ‘ It may be said that the duty is difficult to define , because when the act of negligence in manufacture occurs there was no specific person towards whom the duty could be said to exist : the thing might never be used : it might be destroyed by accident , or it might be scrapped , or in many ways fail to come into use in the normal way : in other words the duty can not at the time of manufacture be other than potential or contingent , and only can become vested by the fact of actual use by a particular person . |
| 21 | Having accepted that deviance can become amplified through a positive feedback mechanism , and that the initial acts of deviance on which the system feeds are often quite minor , only a relatively weak explanation of the original deviance is called for . |
| 22 | Whereas most novel beliefs can become anchored into the cultural patterns of common sense , there is something special about the transmission of scientific ideas in the modern age . |
| 23 | These misinterpretations can become embedded in practice and , once there , are difficult to eradicate . ) |
| 24 | Many clients can become frustrated by this fact , believing that there must be some very significant detail in their past which has caused them to become anxious or stressed currently . |
| 25 | You can become resigned to the monotony of captivity and give up the struggle to maintain your own interests and identity . |
| 26 | Materialism is subtle and persuasive and easily the church can become trapped by it , becoming far weaker , more complacent and faint-hearted , voluntarily seduced into the ME-generation and the glorious gospel of self . |
| 27 | After recent problems with pigs — the kind that can become trapped in pipelines — it was ironic that Hyde project celebrated first gas from the field with a great pig roast . |
| 28 | By observing the whole plant — gross and subtle — by listening with their mind as well as perceiving with their sense , nature 's secrets can become known without the need of costly research laboratories . |
| 29 | [ … ] However the problem with regulation , as US experience testifies , is that the regulatory agency can become captured by the political interests of the industry it is regulating and fail to act as the guardian of consumers ' interests . |
| 30 | Thus , very high blood pressure can become established as a pathological state — ‘ essential hypertension ’ — which can help to precipitate strokes or heart attacks . |