Example sentences of "[noun sg] has become [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The processes through which the text has become part of the textuality of history will probably have meant the re-deployment of those original agencies so that they have reappeared in some disguised fashion within currently familiar structural organisation for understanding culture .
2 Woodland has become grassland , forcing the forest animals on to the retreat .
3 In effect the Park has become part of the city 's road network .
4 The film makers of 1938 slipped in , behind Shaw 's back , a sentimental ending in which Eliza improbably returned to Higgins and in our own time the play has become operetta fodder .
5 The scientists estimate that nearly two-thirds of the African continent has become drier over the past 60 years .
6 The obsession has become Kirillov 's alone .
7 The point of contact with the fable of disembodied consciousness is that thinking has become Raskolnikov 's work , it has almost become Raskolnikov , and if he did and were nothing but this work we would have the first part of Notes from Underground repeated .
8 The use of composite materials , such as carbon fibre and Kevlar , to save weight has become part and parcel of racing car production .
9 If one accepts , as so many cases do that the skill and knowledge of the employee has become part of himself then it is difficult to see why any distinction should be made as postulated in the question .
10 ‘ It 's a silly procedure then , ’ I find myself saying , and the confrontation has become war .
11 The metaphor of commodity suggests itself ( with its marxian overtones ) precisely because research has become part of academic currency , bestowing credibility on those who possess a curriculum vitae listing their research publications .
12 ‘ Ethnic clothing has become classic — once you have a certain skirt or blouse you can go on wearing it and never have to buy another .
13 A comprehensive offshore oil spill prevention and cleanup plan has become law in California .
14 Like the rose , the sweetpea has become part of the tradition of a an English country garden and more sweetpea seeds are sold than any other flower .
15 Unfortunately , provincial rugby has become Ireland 's poorest relation .
16 A HIGHLAND council has become Britain 's largest mussel producer and is making £400,000 a year from its harvest of bivalves — thanks to King James VI .
17 Nearby , the city 's former Cotton Exchange has become host to a space-age theatre , housed in an ingenious freestanding capsule constructed within the vast , empty dealing floor .
18 If for Althusserians and poststructuralists the signifier has become material ( a referent ) , then for the surrealists and for Walter Benjamin the material ( referent ) became signifier .
19 Europe has absorbed huge quantities of ELT product in the last decade , to the extent that , in some sectors , UK-published product has become part of the fabric of the national education system .
20 Because it was felt necessary to deal with the uncertainties that this would create for those acquiring the interest of a chargee of a company 's assets , and also to enhance the transferability of charges created by companies , section 406 provides that a chargee in exercising a power of sale may dispose of property freed of any interest which has arisen because the charge has become void against an administrator , a liquidator or a person who has acquired an interest in it .
21 In addition , a purchaser from the chargee is not concerned to determine whether the charge has become void .
22 Often , however , an attack of non-specific urethritis can be followed by months , if not years , of needless worry and anxiety , simply because , following the mind 's focusing on the genitalia , the patient has noticed certain characteristics of his sexual organs for the first time , and normality has become abnormality .
23 Elsewhere the idea of a supposedly non-evaluative criticism has become general .
24 When the skin is yellow with green patches half the starch has become sugar , when brown flecks appear on the skin it has all been converted .
25 Education has become part of the political battleground , and its transformation into a non-racial system can only be part of a much broader transformation of society .
26 Much of the syllabus has become part of the training of dancers all over the world .
27 Match of the Day has become Snatch of the Day as their come-back is proving a big attraction , illustrating that recorded highlights have been missed .
28 The main shift as he sees it is that the service has become cash limited overnight .
29 He claims the great record company he signed to as a teenager has become part of a giant electronics corporation .
30 Production of the magazine has become part of the students ' training , with proceeds being used to provide additional resources for the courses involved .
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