Example sentences of "[vb base] become [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | We picked these up on a visit we made to the island of Haiti a few years ago , and they 've become part of our Christmas celebrations ever since . ’ |
2 | You 've become part of their lives . |
3 | And you 've become part of the supply line now : selling on to finance your need . |
4 | Today with the shaking up of the post-war world order the terms migrants , refugees , borders , national identity , have become part of the cultural agenda in Europe and North America . |
5 | They have become part of the spacious ports de bras used during the dance . |
6 | Critics on the left claim that the police and education services have become part of the strategy of state control and regulation . |
7 | The coinciding appointment of Dusty Hare as salaried coaching director and looming relegation this season have become part of the shifting sands of time . |
8 | ( iii ) Discussion should bring out examples of words and expressions which tend to undergo very rapid change in use or meaning — eg terms of approbation ( wicked , brill ) ; differences in the use and meanings of words as used by pupils , their parents and grandparents — eg wireless , radio , tranny , receiver ; and new words that have become part of the English vocabulary during the last 50 years or so , eg computer , astronaut , macho . |
9 | Elegiac recollections are buttressed by the Roberts lithographs , pictures which have become part of a deep and dreamlike sleep through which the Palestinians have passed since 1948 . |
10 | Travel is so much the norm that even family celebrations such as marriage have become part of the travel business . |
11 | they have become part of me . |
12 | People in developing African and Asian countries do not have all our modern advantages and some infective diseases , which have become part of history here , remain rampant there . |
13 | They have become part of a stinging indictment of the way the South African police , blase about murder in a brutal society , have been handling this investigation . |
14 | Many of the basic concepts of Marxism — the class struggle , the bourgeoisie and the proletariat , the means of production , exploitation and revolution — have become part of the intellectual baggage of our age . |
15 | In particular , it will examine the extent to which questions concerning women and power have become part of mainstream political sociology . |
16 | If military methods were as aimless as they may appear , should we not concentrate on those moments , perhaps the decisive moments , of violent action when the armies of the two sides clashed in battles which have become part of national myth ? |
17 | Some , like Toshiba's ' 'Ello tosh , got ta Toshiba ? ’ have become part of the language for a time . |
18 | The theory of ‘ proletarianization ’ suggests that routine white-collar workers have become part of the proletariat and so can no longer be considered middle class . |
19 | From the small private London company of 1908 , Mills and Boon have become part of a million-dollar industry . |
20 | In the last five years , however , many of these centres , though still offering a two-year part-time programme leading to a Certificate in Education ( FE ) , have become part of the provision which has stemmed from the 1975 Haycocks Report , whose recommendations we examine in detail below . |
21 | Here we have to work around not only a collection of possessions which have become part of our lives , but also carpets or curtains or wall coverings we feel we ca n't afford to replace . |
22 | Computer programmers and analysts will be allowed to make use of programming techniques and skills which they have learnt and which have become part of their own skill and experience , unless there is something very special about them or they have expressly agreed not to make further use of them . |
23 | Texas drove some beasts to New Orleans and after 1849 to California , but it was the promise of the great north-eastern market which urged ranchers to explore those long routes which have become part of the heroic romance of the ‘ Wild West ’ , linking the remote south-west with the slowly approaching railheads and through them with the giant transport centre of Chicago , whose stockyards were opened in 1865 . |
24 | By joining us you have become part of an international movement which is dedicated to protecting the natural world and which is committed to act in its defence . |
25 | He expanded this view by referring to a number of authorities , which could only be truly explained by saying that certain contracts have become part of " the accepted machinery of a type of transaction which is generally found acceptable and necessary ; so that instead of being regarded as restrictive they are accepted as part of the structure of a trading society " . |
26 | But such things have become part of himself and he can not be restrained from taking them away and using them . |
27 | Both birds have become part of the family now . ’ |
28 | Some significant social policy measures have become law in this way . |
29 | From these beginnings there developed ideas which have become standard in much management training and practice , that members of large organizations have social and psychological needs which may or may not be satisfied at work . |
30 | The second step is to obtain C. For this we select the underlined element in B an evaluate in succession unc and then unc Note that the zero elements in B have become nonzero in C ; however , unc is now 2.19132 ; compare unc above . |