Example sentences of "have become [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was clear then , and has become clearer since , that the risk of a borrower defaulting is just one — albeit the most important — of many threats to a bank 's solvency .
2 It has become clearer to people what they are there for , and the importance of research and students .
3 First the managers will be encouraged to tackle an issue that has become problematical in a bureau by asking open questions of themselves and the bureau staff .
4 Not until after the middle of the seventeenth century do we once more find a government clerk making use of verse as an outlet after he has become psychotic , and then , as he writes from the asylum , he has nothing to lose by revealing himself .
5 Is the Secretary of State for the Environment mistaken in pointing out that the Government 's position on RECHAR has become untenable ?
6 As a consequence land has become unproductive as unpalatable weeds have replaced nutritious fodder .
7 5.5 Title to the goods comprised in each consignment shall not pass to the Purchaser until the Purchaser has paid their price to the Seller , but , even though title has not passed , the Seller shall be entitled to sue for their price once its payment has become due .
8 It is largely because the bran is stripped from white flour that our Western diet has become low in natural fibre content .
9 A fierce solidarity was forged of a kind that has become archaic in the west .
10 Very recent history suggests the world has become much more like that again , with investment in each country breaking free from the constraint of domestic savings .
11 This transformation , so obvious in modern society , is the result of the fact that technique has become autonomous . ’
12 ‘ Plus , the form has become exhausted .
13 Sometimes competitors in the show ring find that their normally sensible horse has become anxious and irrational ; the reason often being because a horse nearby is a flashy appaloosa or tobiano !
14 The word itself means ‘ blown out ’ , ‘ cool ’ , meaning that the fires of desire , hatred and illusion have been extinguished , the heat of desire has become cool .
15 ‘ Ethel , ’ continued Miss Hardbroom , ‘ just because you happen to be an excellent scholar and one of the most helpful members of my class , I do not expect you to lie your way out of a situation when it has become awkward .
16 Japan has become a leader of the Pacific area and to this extent cultivates close contacts not only with Southeast Asia , but also with Australasia , a valuable source of raw materials , where interest in Japan has become substantial .
17 Erm it has become worse in a way that er we did , I did experience some sort of er , er racial intolerance er with the youth , but the middle-aged and the er m older people were very , very er tolerant I had to ask er when I could n't find my way , ask my way to certain places and er there was an that er the lady just walked by me er with me and she , she said I 'll have to walk with you you ca n't find it .
18 Once loudly and publicly proclaimed , death has become private , secret , almost shameful : so much so that nobody of any age wants to talk about it .
19 The NHS was supposed to treat all equally but now it has become similar to the difference between first class and tourist class air travel .
20 While chicken may be growing fatter , pork has become leaner during the last 10 years .
21 POWELL : That — that nursery of traitors and nest of vipers. ( clears throat ) A phrase which has become classic if not an actual thing .
22 It is also the ordinary word for " marriage " in modern Nayar communities where property-owning has become individualised and most of the traditional taravad homesteads have disappeared .
23 Memory has become restricted and suffers from cultural prohibition .
24 Specac , the spectroscopic and optical accessories company , has become Graseby-Specac to echo its parent company 's name change from Cambridge Electronic Companies to Graseby , and is now part of the Electro-Optics group .
25 The global fishing industry of more than 1 million medium or large boats has become unprofitable , the FAO says , with costs of US$124,000 million and revenue of only US$70,000 million in 1990 , with much of the shortfall covered by state subsidies .
26 LANDLORD Roy Tolan has become obsessed with a new woman in his life — a glamorous ghost .
27 No , you 're just a pathetic monomaniac who 's lived too long and has become obsessed with the idea of making the entire planet suffer for an ancient wrong that was perpetrated by a mindless minority ! ’
28 The use of names rather than arguments as ammunition has become noticeable in such exercises , on both sides of the Atlantic , as Chris Baldick remarks in a review of Frederick Crews 's Skeptical Engagements :
29 Gaminara draws only the most banal conclusions from his detailed subject matter and , by the end , the play ( his first for the stage ) has become contrived , sentimental and gratuitously violent .
30 It is believed to be one of the few parasites which has become free-living .
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