Example sentences of "what have become [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jacko ( John Mills ) , Kathie 's father , and a committed trade unionist , is asked to give his opinion on what has become a contentious issue within the factory . |
| 2 | In what has become a classic description of this unpleasant and unstable world , in which peaceful planning and long-term effort is pointless , Hobbes says that : |
| 3 | Byrne , the Republic of Ireland striker who considered retiring from the game less than two years ago because his career had stagnated in France , maintained his record of scoring in every round of what has become a romantic Wearside success story . |
| 4 | The principle was one thing , the passenger quite another element in the rapid growth of what has become an international craze . |
| 5 | ‘ The attack upon local education authority inspectorates and advisory services is yet one more example of what has become an obsessive vendetta against local government in all its manifestations . |
| 6 | Interest in what has become an indispensable means of communicating in the 1990s was not sparked until early this century when a modernised version of Bain 's brainchild was used to send newspaper photographs . |
| 7 | As far as the reference to the ‘ customary ’ tuning of the 6-string bass , Gibson was referring to what has become the modern standard amongst contemporary players : that is , opting for the low B while keeping the fourths tuning intact across the other five strings . |
| 8 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 9 | But the existence of the offer -however it arose — reminded the town of what once had been a great benefit , and the Company of what had become a great burden , which it had no wish to assume again , however indirectly . |
| 10 | The advent of Edna into the household had been a miraculous and totally unexpected blessing , if such a word could be applied to what had become a devastating situation . |
| 11 | Parliament approved on Sept. 25 , in what had become a regular routine , the extension of the state of emergency for a further month . |
| 12 | The kinship systems of Australian aborigines , Pacific islanders and Iroquois Indians , which the ancestors of modern social anthropology like Lewis Morgan(1818–81) now began to study seriously — though the subject was still primarily studied in the library rather than in the field — were seen as ‘ survivals ’ of earlier stages in the evolution of what had become the nineteenth-century family . |
| 13 | This love of secrecy may have been a reaction to the rapid expansion of Britain 's formal power towards the end of the nineteenth century , an attempt to preserve the spirit of the frontier and deny what had become the unexciting obviousness of British dominion . |