Example sentences of "[noun] have become a matter " in BNC.

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1 The check had become a matter of necessity rather than of choice .
2 The development of massive and little used collections in universities has become a matter of custom — a practice scarcely requiring justification , unless taken to task .
3 Alternative accommodation in the metropolitan area for a new breed of large steamships had become a matter of some urgency .
4 Guardian 27 September China to tackle acid rain The Chinese government has announced that controlling the country 's growing acid-rain pollution had become a matter of " extreme urgency " .
5 Remember , these issues will remain relevant long after the Earth Summit has become a matter of history .
6 Already in this chapter I have referred to the idea that Christian commitment has become a matter of private belief .
7 Is Horace , at the close of a poem published only a few years before the end of his own life , talking at and through " Torquatus " , talking to Rome , to the culture whose imperial destiny was beginning to seem less and less convincing and whose traditional virtues had become a matter of pious rhetoric ?
8 Despite significant advances in family planning , the report said , birth control had become a matter of global survival .
9 Consequently , the need for monitoring and evaluating the landscape has become a matter of public concern .
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