Example sentences of "become so [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Punch is certainly one of the great British institutions , and has become so much a way of life as to make it impossible to imagine a world without it .
2 These ways have become so much a part of the fabric of dance that they are used almost unknowingly by teachers and dancers .
3 By 1945 , German ‘ solutions ’ in the east had become so much a part of the German view of the world and ‘ German historic destiny ’ that the Russians and the Poles , who had played human safety-valve to German ambition throughout their long joint histories , saw dismemberment of German territory in the east as the only possible long-term solution .
4 These characters have become so much a part of our own childhood that we almost forget their origin .
5 It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders .
6 It has become so much a part of them that they are often unaware of its existence .
7 We then start to read the familiar stories of ward closures and idle operating theatres which have become so much a part of the New Year celebrations and which the reforms were supposed to eliminate .
8 It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’
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