Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] has become [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes this obstinacy was the refuge of the poor man who can not afford change and to whom stagnation has become a habit of mind necessary for survival ; at other times it represented a sound rejection of improper techniques culled by ‘ philosophical ’ amateurs from the journals of French and English agricultural societies . |
| 2 | There are lines round my eyes and my hair has become a hag 's rope . |
| 3 | And was there was a hint of desperation when he told TODAY 'S Bill Blighton last April : ‘ My life has become a soap opera , a long-running saga but I 'm not going to be the clone the US Tour want . |
| 4 | She was buried at Cholsey where her grave has become a shrine for fans from all over the world . |
| 5 | While Stone struggles to keep open the question as to whether more divorce produces an increase in the sum of human happiness , he is obviously uneasy about the way in which divorce has become a routine and largely administrative process . |
| 6 | Her career has become a kind of obsession ; her voice , the instrument of his enrapturement , a thing to be cherished and protected , to the degree that social life is circumscribed because of the effect which smoky parties might have on her . |
| 7 | Now their country has become a prison which they can only leave with special permission — a situation which is guaranteed to fuel bitterness and resentment against the hardline regime . |
| 8 | And in a country whose language has become the world 's lingua franca its literary culture is its culture . |
| 9 | His armour has become a bandage |
| 10 | My father in his retirement has become a computer hobbyist , upgrading constantly , browsing through those 500-page magazines which sell the same computer in different boxes , assembled by underpaid and exploited single mothers in the Midlands . |
| 11 | Today , his anti-Semitism has become a habit , a mechanical response , a focus for all his resentments : his poverty , his lack of formal education , his peripheral place in the world of music … . |
| 12 | His oeuvre has become a sort of national institution that is regarded with affection by a large number of people , something akin to the singing of ‘ Land of Hope and Glory ’ on the Last Night of the Proms . |
| 13 | Do not expect too much in the early stages , even if your dog has become a model pupil at home . |
| 14 | Our civilization has become a cage in which we choose to imprison ourselves . |