Example sentences of "[vb -s] become [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ENGLAND 'S 1973–74 Test series in West Indies had many things to savour : Sobers became the first man to score 8000 Test runs . |
| 2 | It starts becoming the norm . |
| 3 | Klima may perhaps be a common name in Czechoslovakia , and Kundera has become a common name in the conversation of Western readers , who are drawn to these reciprocal concerns of his . |
| 4 | His book , 30 Ans du Cinema Americain has become a seminal text for cinephiles everywhere . |
| 5 | In 1984–5 the sector returned a loss of £157million ; in one of the most dramatic business turnrounds in recent years this has become a £24million profit in 1988–9 . |
| 6 | Changing a garage door , they say , has become a simple home improvement which can result in ongoing maintenance simplicity . |
| 7 | But if he has , I do n't think it follows that Fathers and Children has become a bad book in his eyes , but rather , it is now not all that good . |
| 8 | Reasons are that the PC has become the conventional engineering tool ; most DSP applications programs run under ms-dos ; hardware interfacing of target DSP boards to the PC has become a standard practice , and the PC represents a low cost entry point into the field of DSP development . |
| 9 | The insistence on the supremacy of the political has become a cliché of recent thinking . |
| 10 | If so , this is yet one more of the paradoxes attending this remarkable figure , who , disavowing mastery has become a Master , and who undermines his meanings in advancing them . |
| 11 | Silk Slippers enabled Sangster — slowly-sinking in the super league of owners — to regain a foothold by wearing down the red-hot favourite , Moon Cactus , owned ironically by Sheikh Mohammed , in the dying strides of an event that has become a fertile proving ground for Classic fillies . |
| 12 | Without it , she has become a virtual prisoner in her own home ; she is ruled by the clock and the hours worked by her local authority helpers . |
| 13 | The motorway was never built , but Byker has become a model of how to build low-cost housing on a large , yet humane scale . |
| 14 | Now their country has become a prison which they can only leave with special permission — a situation which is guaranteed to fuel bitterness and resentment against the hardline regime . |
| 15 | To an extent , the anger is to be expected from a newspaper which has become a strident mouthpiece of conservative elements in the Kremlin leadership . |
| 16 | What has become a round of South African diplomacy in London began earlier this year when FW de Klerk visited London as President-in-waiting . |
| 17 | Indeed , the law has become a convenient shield for politicians . |
| 18 | ‘ We can not do it because Gramm-Rudman-Hollings will not let us ’ has become a familiar refrain . |
| 19 | To post-war generations , the deli has become a way to stay connected , through the taste buds with their roots . |
| 20 | ‘ Going to Hungary has become a synonym for going to the West . |
| 21 | His group has been involved in parallel computing since the early 1980s ; software produced at CalTech has become a de facto standard for the various ‘ hypercube ’ machines manufactured in the United States . |
| 22 | The objective of the Lausanne conference should be to encourage Kenya and its allies to emulate the conditions pertaining in the Kruger and Hwange national parks , where culling has become a necessity born out of successful conservation , rather than to encourage policies which could turn them into the run-down disaster zones Mr Leakey described . |
| 23 | You begin to appreciate why Newley has become a rich and famous celebrity playing poor failed nobodies . |
| 24 | In just three weeks , the Supreme Soviet has become a real parliament , in the sense that every problem of national life feeds into it . |
| 25 | It was mentioned in the previous chapter that an awareness of the marketing environment has become a key element in the ‘ modern-day ’ approach to marketing . |
| 26 | In Eliot 's poem it is ‘ While the melodious fountain falls ’ that love is made , but we are forced to be conscious of an artifice ‘ ( Carved by the cunning Bolognese ) ’ which suggests that the apparently primitive fertility ritual where ‘ The Adepts twine beneath the trees/ The sacrificial exercise ’ has become a decadent pleasure , rather than a genuine ritual . |
| 27 | The study concludes that ‘ She has become a mistress of the pre-planned , carefully packaged appearance . ’ . |
| 28 | In Norway and Denmark electoral support for anti-tax parties has declined , while opinion surveys in the United States and Britain show that tax-cutting has become a minority cause , compared to support for spending on social programmes . |
| 29 | While Stone struggles to keep open the question as to whether more divorce produces an increase in the sum of human happiness , he is obviously uneasy about the way in which divorce has become a routine and largely administrative process . |
| 30 | Surprisingly , the turning point that saw a struggling business transformed into a trendsetting group that has become a household name can be traced back to a Dutch merchant banker , who persuaded Conran to widen his horizons . |