Example sentences of "[pron] has become a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his high-tack dance programme The Hitman and Her has become a kitsch saturday night institution . |
| 2 | To an extent , the anger is to be expected from a newspaper which has become a strident mouthpiece of conservative elements in the Kremlin leadership . |
| 3 | That forecast , from party sources and from the intelligence bureau , which has become a wing of the Prime Minister 's office , was crucial in the timing of the election , at least a month before it was expected . |
| 4 | Now , it is Kingfisher which has become a favourite — not because the people at the helm have great shopkeeping flair but because their cautious and unflamboyant management style has created a retailing empire of solid reliability . |
| 5 | The Australian Federal Police are saying little about the affair , which has become a national scandal , but they have admitted the discovery of illegal bugs on the phones of Mr Robert Holmes a Court , Sydney stockbroker Mr Peter Burrows and a leading Australian financial journalist , Mr Terry McCran of the Melbourne Herald , a trenchant critic of the Bond Corporation . |
| 6 | Dr Ed Dart , director of research at ICI Seeds , which has become a major international organisation since it started in 1985 , plays these down . |
| 7 | Each work extends the ‘ augury ’ of Finnegans Wake : each work is a postmodernist paradigm , a prophecy of the self-reflexive foregrounding of language and fiction-making which has become a central , distinguishing characteristic of postmodernism . |
| 8 | The telephone network is now under the control and direction of British Telecom which has become a privatized monopoly . |
| 9 | So Herbert Chapman established a pattern in relations between directors and manager which has become a feature of many of the major clubs , where the only veto on the manager 's power is the sack if he fails to bring results . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | VANDALS have tried to cut down the tree which has become a shrine to rock star Marc Bolan . |
| 12 | In addition , there is fanaticism and lack of religious tolerance , which has become a major human rights problem in many parts of the world . |
| 13 | In the middle of Reykjavik is a small lake called Lake Tjörnin which has become a centre piece to the city . |
| 14 | The problem of the physical and sexual abuse of children , which has become a dominant theme of family studies and of the work of the social services in the 1970s and 1980s , is increasingly seen as one that replicates itself across generations . |
| 15 | FAXgrabber itself has been developed by Calera Recognition Systems which has become a leader in optical character recognition ( OCR ) technology which allows computers to ‘ read ’ . |
| 16 | A second team is currently working at Moscow airport , which has become a major transit point for people without proper documents . |
| 17 | Expressed in developmental , rather than structural terms , one can describe the condition of the citizens of total welfare states as childlike , for not only are they likely to be regressed in developmental terms for the reasons already given , they are also childlike in relative terms to the state which has become a parent , and an omnipotent one at that . |
| 18 | Expressed in developmental , rather than structural terms , one can describe the condition of the citizens of total welfare states as childlike , for not only are they likely to be regressed in developmental terms for the reasons already given , they are also childlike in relative terms to the state which has become a parent , and an omnipotent one at that . |
| 19 | Some trajectories wander forever near the strange invariant set which has become a strange attractor . |
| 20 | As long as the controls are there to make sure they 're not wandering around all over the place which one hears about Group 4 and their reputation for letting people go which has become a bit of a joke . |
| 21 | SUSAN NICKALLS looks at pottery which has become a smash hit |
| 22 | Forms will be available shortly for the Hale 5 road race on December 20 , which has become a popular pre-Christmas outing for runners , serious and not so serious . |
| 23 | It 's something to do with gentlemanliness and the idea of the English gentleman , which has become a very influential one , not just in Britain , but it 's been admired and copied in many other countries and this is an historical product . |
| 24 | From early days English Teetotallers had felt it their duty to correct their American brethren when they fell short , a trait which has become an intricate part of general English attitudes towards America . |
| 25 | ‘ The research … will contribute to overcoming the effects of sweet potato weevil which has become an insurmountable problem to control with conventional approaches , ’ says the company . |
| 26 | Each month Norma Steinberg will be showing one of the wild animals which has become an endangered species on a beautifully drawn chart and portrayed on a suitable sweater style . |
| 27 | ANOREXIA NERVOSA is an eating disorder which has become an increasing problem over recent years especially as there is so much pressure these days to be ‘ thin ’ . |
| 28 | Most of all this influence is to be seen in the practice of close reading , which has become an established part of English literature courses in Britain . |
| 29 | This grant is to encourage the continuation of a series which has become an accepted and much quoted source of reference . |
| 30 | " This is the second edition of a handbook which has become an essential companion of teachers and students of tropical medicine and parasitology throughout the world . |