Example sentences of "[verb] become a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , at a Roman Catholic retreat , where we were asked to use no book other than the Bible , the personal daily direction given became a memorable means of the Holy Spirit 's teaching , healing , and guiding . |
| 2 | But since microwaving became a recognised method of cooking on catering students ' curricula , the level of microwave knowledge sits equally alongside that of steaming , frying and grill work alike . |
| 3 | Finding a roof over your head has become a real problem for many more thousands of young people seeking a home of their own . |
| 4 | Writing in 1947 , Hogg ( later Lord Hailsham ) , presenting the Conservative Party case against the reforms introduced by the Labour government , felt that the rate of income tax ‘ has become a potent cause of social harm as well as a source of revenue ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Subject to sections 7 and 8 below , a person who has become a rehabilitated person for the purposes of this Act in respect of a conviction shall be treated for all purposes in law as a person who has not committed or been charged with or prosecuted for or convicted of or sentenced for the offence or offences which were the subject of that conviction ; and , notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment or rule of law to the contrary , but subject as aforesaid — |
| 6 | Since the early 1960s it has undergone a transformation as great as that of the nineteenth century and has become a new settlement with virtually no connection with agriculture or coal . |
| 7 | The smuggling of aliens , he says , has become a new source of money for the gangs ‘ and they are growing bolder by the month . ’ |
| 8 | Recording the fetal heart rate has become a fixed feature of intrapartum care ; we need to reconsider and remember that it is an extremely limited method for assessing the health of the fetus . |
| 9 | Beck House , in Faverdale , has become a second home to many people in the area with learning difficulties . |
| 10 | ‘ As you know only too well , ’ he wrote after leaving Broadlands on one occasion to embark on a six-month cruise , ‘ to me it has become a second home in so many ways , and no one could ever have had such a splendid honorary grandpapa in the history of avuncular relationships . ’ |
| 11 | There , even a home-grown ‘ soft ’ discounter called Kwik Save , which offers a slightly wider product-range at higher prices than true hard discounters , has become a firm favourite with retail analysts . |
| 12 | The library has become a closer ally of subject work partly because of the emphasis given by the national curriculum to study skills and information technology . |
| 13 | ‘ How shall the crimes that have their direct source in the immoral motion pictures be measured ? ’ he asked , before declaring , ‘ Catholics are called by God , the pope , the Bishops and the priests to a united and vigorous campaign for the purification of the cinema , which has become a deadly menace to morals . ’ |
| 14 | Herbert Morrison attacked the Club in the December 1938 London News : There is ample evidence that the Left Book Club , through its groups , has become a political movement with substantial money behind it , and that one of its main activities is in the direction of manipulating and controlling local Labour Parties . |
| 15 | It has become a recognisable stage in the growth process to use external consultants . |
| 16 | It survives and has become a religious force in the village . |
| 17 | The study of ultracold collisions has become a fertile subject in itself because the physics of such collisions is fundamentally different from the physics of ‘ conventional ’ collisions . |
| 18 | THE WORTH VALLEY Autumn Enthusiasts ' weekend has become a perfect complement to their Spring event . |
| 19 | Algal bloom , which smothers and kills aquatic wildlife , has become a familiar problem on many inland waters , but especially here in the Norfolk Broads . |
| 20 | As a result of the microcomputer revolution , electronic data processing has become a familiar feature of research in most humanities disciplines . |
| 21 | The A34 main road from Southampton to the midlands has become a familiar venue for contraflows and queues . |
| 22 | It has become a familiar complaint of managers this season , dissatisfied that the ‘ brave new world ’ of the Premier League merely offers them the same problems as the old . |
| 23 | His book , 30 Ans du Cinema Americain has become a seminal text for cinephiles everywhere . |
| 24 | Ireland has become a recent entrant in this market with its International Financial Services Centre legislation . |
| 25 | In more recent times , migration from Mexico , Latin America and the West Indies has become a general source of such labour . |
| 26 | The rewards will be improvements in the quality of relationships and in the effectiveness of the school , measuring how the school has become a nicer place for all , calls for changes to be shown across a range of measures : |
| 27 | For the time being , however , the political implications of English insularity were overshadowed , for Orwell , by his belief that ‘ patriotism , against which the socialists fought for so long , has become a tremendous lever in their hands . ’ |
| 28 | We received the mini bus on the 5th January 1988 , and it has become a tremendous asset to the project . |
| 29 | As football has become a big-business enterprise in this country , and since the players , who once were seen as members of the same working-class community as the fans themselves , have become rich superstars , the close identity between fans and their team has been eroded . |
| 30 | As we shall see later , the ongoing health of children in Seascale has become a critical issue for the nuclear industry . |