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

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1 The Finaghy branch has become an important link in the chain , as far as the Halifax Property Services operation in the south Belfast and Lisburn area is concerned .
2 What will be the likely effects of such judgements on someone for whom practising meditation has become an important part of life , perhaps helping them to cope with difficulties and gain a sense of freedom and peace ?
3 Sometimes the estimates are discordant , but a little practice will work wonders , and variable star work has become an important branch of modern amateur astronomy .
4 Since the advent of third party service companies , however , price competitiveness has become an important issue .
5 Over the past few years , however , live colouration has become an important criterion in taxonomy , and as synspilum differs markedly from melanurum in this respect , and has a different distribution , it is now once again generally considered a separate species , albeit probably very closely-related .
6 This argument has become an important factor in recent debates about a new escalation of the arms race and major changes of nuclear strategy involved in the Star Wars proposal ( the Strategic Defence Initiative ) as well as proposals for new weapons systems based on new technologies .
7 Since moving to Sussex , landscape has become an important vehicle for his ideas .
8 Nuclear energy has become an important tool for plant breeders and Russian horticultural researchers have been putting it to good use in their iris-breeding programmes .
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