Example sentences of "have become [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the increase in greenery and play space the streets have become both more attractive and lively . |
| 2 | It is also true that the growing body of scientific evidence has had one effect in that the agreed levels of exposure to both people who work in the industry or who live in the vicinity of power stations have become steadily more stringent since the early days when it was thought unnecessary to warn military personnel that there was any risk in their presence a matter of miles from an atomic test explosion . |
| 3 | As Kmart has begun putting these data to work over the past few years , the company 's operations have become steadily more centralised . |
| 4 | In 1980 , Curtice and Steed pointed out that " the peripheral areas of Britain , with their higher unemployment , and the declining inner parts of conurbations , have become steadily more Labour ; while the expanding , more prosperous areas have become more Conservative . " |
| 5 | " The peripheral areas of Britain , " write two analysts , " with their higher unemployment , and the declining inner parts of conurbations , have become steadily more Labour ; while the expanding , more prosperous areas have become more Conservative . " |
| 6 | In recent years these have become notably more stringent , especially in the US and West Germany . |
| 7 | For instance , in western societies women have become economically more important than hitherto . |
| 8 | Today , with inflation now increased by at least tenfold , they have become progressively more manageable ! ’ |
| 9 | The first was that , from the inter-war years up to the year of the study , men of all class origins have become progressively more likely to move into professional , administrative and managerial positions — or into the service class of modern British society . |
| 10 | Uniforms have always been attractive to certain women , and the flame-retardant overalls have become pretty much a uniform . |
| 11 | For Perrier the sale of soft drinks have become vastly less important than the revenue from bottled water . |
| 12 | What do we know about the life and times of the man whose steel-rimmed spectacles and well-trimmed beard have become just as much of a trade mark as the well-known company logo ? |
| 13 | Curiously , I have become even more strongly persuaded of that since I began dabbling in the making of political television programmes . |
| 14 | Results showed that there is an increasing interest in meat-free meals , so it 's not surprising that the products from the healthy Balance range have become even more popular . |
| 15 | But the distinction carried other overtones as well , which have become even more central in more recent applications of the distinction . |
| 16 | This has become especially the case in the ‘ new ’ congress of the 1980s , where congressmen and senators have become even more individualistic and less amenable to control than before . |
| 17 | The economic recession of the late 1970s has meant not only that government funds have become even more scarce for such policies but also that government and public concern has shifted away from issues of inequality to concentrate on the problems of productivity and economic growth . |
| 18 | In the present economic climate , credit control and debt recovery have become even more important . |
| 19 | ’ The preceptors have become even more unreliable , and could go off-phase … ’ |
| 20 | Earnings from work of manual and non-manual workers have become slightly less unequal though the same can not be claimed for the value of such fringe benefits as sick pay , retirement pensions , subsidies for cars , private schooling , house purchase , etc . |
| 21 | Beginnings , middles and ends have become still more problematic , even suspect , in recent fiction . |
| 22 | The weary sighs from friends and associates as they replace the telephone receiver after yet another call from the maestro have become somewhat more pronounced . |
| 23 | Although legal intervention is often seen as a means of last resort in cases of extremely persistent truancy , the problem may , by then , have become too firmly entrenched . |
| 24 | In recent years , various government ‘ do n't drink and drive ’ campaigns have become as much a part of Christmas as turkey , trees and tinsel . |
| 25 | The Danes , too , who tended to side with Britain in resisting this idea , have become noticeably more enthusiastic of late . |
| 26 | On board , crews have become noticeably more customer-friendly ; with a few exceptions , passengers ' needs and wishes are now paramount . |
| 27 | More generally , governments in Japan , the US , and Europe have promoted and lavishly funded a number of large-scale pre-competitive research consortia ( such as the VSLI consortium , SEMATECH , MCC , ESPRIT , and others ) , and antitrust law and practice in both the US and Europe have become noticeably more lenient with the passage of the National Co-operative Research Act in 1984 and the announcement of the block exemption from Article 85 in the EEC for certain categories of R&D agreements in 1985 . |
| 28 | Over the aeons they have become so thoroughly integrated into the cooperative unit that became the eukaryotic cell , that it has become almost impossible to detect the fact , if indeed it is a fact , that they were once separate bacteria . |
| 29 | The time may well arrive — indeed , that process is now under way — when the notion of the supremacy of the institutions of the Community and the primacy of Community law have become so firmly established that they are widely acknowledged to be a feature of the United Kingdom 's constitutional landscape . |
| 30 | Hollywood filmmakers have become so slavishly dependent on old movies for their narratives that more and more new movies are having to assume the textural trappings of the past . |