Example sentences of "[verb] become [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The anthropological fieldworker who eventually returns to the social setting of his homeland usually finds that it has become quite a different place . |
| 2 | The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics . |
| 3 | It is a question that needs to be asked now that , in theoretical terms , the affirmation of difference has become almost a new orthodoxy . |
| 4 | The term " Urgonian " has become almost a dirty word in Cretaceous stratigraphy , for it is not one of the internationally accepted stage names and it is said to be a diachronous , southern facies . |
| 5 | I know several inspectors who have refused a college scholarship , arguing that the time spent away from the force was time spent in structural limbo , and it has become almost a common adage that time away is time lost in ‘ the promotion stakes ’ . |
| 6 | Reproduced in calendars , on birthday cards , and in coffee-table books , this painting has become almost a ritualized symbol of the reverence which English people have for their countryside . |
| 7 | Since 1987 , the MTFS has become more an official pronouncement of the growth path of M0 than a useful guide to the methods of achieving policy objectives . |
| 8 | For companies like , pitching to investors has become virtually a full time job . |
| 9 | A spokesman said : ‘ It has become virtually a one-man book , with almost all the bets on the mighty Quinn . |
| 10 | IN the West Indies the appropriately coloured rainbow flag for friendship can sometimes be used to replace the plethora of different ensigns ( there are more ensigns than steel bands among the islands ) , but mostly it has become merely an additional flag . |
| 11 | Such may possibly have been the motive behind the creation of the muftilik of Cyprus , but the case for the argument seems stronger in isolation than it does when set against the fact that by 979/1571 the creation of such joint muderris/muftiliks appears to have become quite a common practice . |
| 12 | He thinks you 've become quite the little horsewoman . ’ |
| 13 | This was , of course , the reason why eating had become almost a physical impossibility with the result that Molly was virtually starving . |
| 14 | As the 80s came to an end , punishing exercise routines had become almost an alternative religion for many people . |
| 15 | The boots had become almost an eccentric fetish . |
| 16 | Georgian television had become virtually the only source of information since the presidium of the Supreme Soviet had closed down almost all Georgian language newspapers on Sept. 5 ( allegedly because of a paper shortage ) and Russian and Soviet television broadcasts were interrupted . |
| 17 | Boundary disputes have become perhaps the classic setting for the presentation of bilateral claims in which third parties may claim an interest . |