Example sentences of "[verb] become [adj] practice " in BNC.

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1 This postponement of examination until completion has become normal practice and the use of epitomes of title when photocopies are supplied has reduced the procedure , in most cases , to a matter of minutes .
2 It has become standard practice to picture the two cultures as standing in the most acute opposition at that time .
3 It has become usual practice for record companies to advance bands some money to underwrite the costs of these first tours .
4 By 1987 Wilmink was able to conclude that the Act ‘ has had a stimulating effect on the development of plans for the construction of bicycle tracks ’ and that ‘ attention to bicycle facilities in all stages of planning , design and maintenance of the infrastructure has become common practice . ’
5 Unfortunately this latter function is very difficult to generate using simple analogue circuits , So it has become common practice to approximate the velocity profile by linear ramp functions [ Figs. 8.8 ( b , c ) ] .
6 In large organizations it has become common practice for audit committees , consisting of representatives of senior management , the internal audit department and external auditors , to meet .
7 However , it has become common practice to say that if the terms of the draft are approved , then the top copy should be retained and used as an engrossment for the purposes of signature .
8 Pied-fly numbers have increased dramatically since nest box provision has become widespread practice in the sessile oak woods they prefer .
9 Ms Kennedy , who is writing a book on women in the criminal justice system , said it had become common practice in rape trials to employ women lawyers for the defence .
10 In fact it seemed that at that time ( early 1977 ) sexual examination had become common practice at Heathrow Immigration Department , apparently carried out at the whim of the officials .
11 Before Morris introduced this type of maze , it had become common practice to study spatial learning in a more conventional version of the same task , in which rats are placed in various forms of radial mazes with four , six or eight arms , and must learn to run to a goal box containing food or water at the end of one of the arms .
12 Alcuin 's ideas must to some extent have become Carolingian practice .
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