Learned by Reading
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
In order to provide service, you must become an expert not only in technology, but in the processes of your customers.
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(S (VP (TO to)
(VP (VB provide)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
When people find and are impressed with what you’ve written, you become an expert in their minds, which translates to a high level of credibility.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
You must become an expert at time management.
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(VP (VB become)
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(NP (NN time) (NN management)))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
If you want to drive millions of people to your website annually without spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to do so, you must become an expert in article marketing.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
By doing this, you can quickly become an expert in that field in your surrounding community.
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(NP (PRP$ your) (VBG surrounding) (NN community)))))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I became an expert at hiding my size 12 curves under my dad’s baggy button down collar shirts and Levis.
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(PP (IN down)
(NP (NN collar) (NNS shirts) (CC and) (NNP Levis))))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
In fact, if you spent enough time studying the process of opening and closing, locking and unlocking doors, you could become quite an expert on doorknobs.
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(S1 (S (PP (IN In)
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(VP (VB become)
(NP (NP (PDT quite) (DT an) (NN expert))
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(NP (NNS doorknobs)))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Fittingly, my first class back was that of the Power Tool “Commitment vs. Trying “Throughout the years, I became an expert at trying, and succeeding at nothing but a feeble attempt.
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(S1 (S (ADVP (RB Fittingly)) (, ,)
(NP (PRP$ my) (JJ first) (NN class) (NN back))
(VP (AUX was) (ADVP (IN that)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I wonder if the internet is behind my belief that I can become an expert on things that I don’t know much about.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Once again, unless YOU are an expert in making money, you need to find something that you CAN become an expert in.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
You will become an expert in selling and marketing your site.
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(S1 (S (NP (PRP You))
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(S (VP (VBG selling) (CC and) (VBG marketing)
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(. .)))
In the British National Corpus:
You become an expert on the experts.
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(S1 (S (NP (PRP You))
(VP (VBP become)
(NP (NP (DT an) (NN expert))
(PP (IN on)
(NP (DT the) (NNS experts)))))
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Next, the story on how I instantly became an expert on astronomy because the sky happens to be above me.
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(S1 (FRAG (ADJP (JJ Next)) (, ,)
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Because I could just become an expert at one, and then the other.
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(S1 (S (IN Because)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The only rationale I can come up with is that I was always this way, and I never could handle any negativity, and that’s why I became an expert at dissociating myself.
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(S1 (S (NP (NP (DT The) (JJ only) (NN rationale))
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Secrets became a way of life for me, and I became an expert on finding ways to evade the questions that seemed to come far too often when I found I’d stayed too long in any one place.
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In Wikipedia:
Angered by lead poisoning afflicting workers at a National Lead Co. plant where he provided contract servicing, Becker became an expert on occupational health and safety issues.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
During the Great War, Thompson became an expert in machine – gun tactics.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Foremost it will save you huge gobs of time because of all the built in tools. It will help you become an expert in finding niche markets to profit from.
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(. .)))
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