Example sentences of "become [adv] [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 . ’ |
| 9 | By the late 1970s the state sector had become not only a harbour of inefficiency , as in many ‘ developed ’ countries , but also a greenhouse of the hybrid values emerging in Africa many of which were inimical to efficient methods of low-cost production . |
| 10 | In recent years , various government ‘ do n't drink and drive ’ campaigns have become as much a part of Christmas as turkey , trees and tinsel . |
| 11 | In most RMI contexts , this new structure has become almost universally a version of the clinical directorate model . |
| 12 | ‘ Could it be that crime has become too easy , that violence has become too much a theme of television and videos , that respect for other people has gone too much out of fashion and too many young people see no stake for themselves in this society and see more of a future in crime and the black economy ? ’ he asked . |
| 13 | This new chap , Dunbar , seemed to have become very much a part of Madeleine 's life ; Lady Debrace approved of him and obviously Aubrey liked him . |
| 14 | The resulting emphasis on personalism and personalised relationships has become very much a feature of social life in the New World , too . |