Example sentences of "have become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the north you must be wise even before you have a mature emotion … ; you must develop your self-assurance before you have become a man , you must be intelligent before you are a child ; personal harmony and beauty are not allowed to thrive and mature … |
| 2 | We have become a part of the community which is what it 's all about . |
| 3 | We human beings ourselves have become a threat to our planet . |
| 4 | These little glasses , which so closely resemble eyebaths , have become a fetish , and to suggest that a common cup might be shared ( after all it is communion ) is more than many a minister would dare . |
| 5 | The events of the 1975–6 civil war have become a fixation for the Lebanese . |
| 6 | The trouble now is that jargon , both the thing and the word , have become a kind of battle ground . |
| 7 | But it has also begun to create a corporate culture where some companies have become a kind of economic prison where senior management can legally abuse and ill-treat their employees , and silence any protest with the threat of the sack . |
| 8 | A person with a limited vocabulary can usually manage well in familiar surroundings but may experience difficulty , for instance when filling in many of the forms which have become a feature of our modern society such as an insurance form . |
| 9 | The tunes played by the 25-year-old former London College of Music student have become a feature at the club this season and the Crewe directors intend to reward him with a free season ticket . |
| 10 | Examples of such housing were built in Europe in the 1940s , but when it came to the public sector imitations in this country , narrowness of concep-tion and meanness in execution translated the idea into the publicly owned slabs and boxes that have become a feature of the landscape in our major cities ( McDowell , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | Workshops , day schools , short and more intensive courses about women 's literature and history and psychology and health , for example , have become a feature of every self-respecting liberal studies programme ; whilst courses in self-defence , assertiveness training , women 's sexuality , welfare rights , peace studies and feminist politics have helped to reconstitute what is usually defined as a relevant curriculum for women . |
| 12 | They have become a symbol , along with rainbows , of the dawning of a new age of Aquarius , when qualities of love , peace , and harmony have their renaissance on the earth . |
| 13 | In higher grade cases , some Down 's people have undergone operations , either at their own or their parents ' instigation , to alter the physical characteristics which have become a stigma for them . |
| 14 | For we have become a spectacle to the world , to angels and to men ( like the dying gladiators ) . ’ |
| 15 | The coca mafia have become a law unto themselves . |
| 16 | They have become a bit more open-minded now but they like to make changes slowly . |
| 17 | I think I have become a bit more positive . |
| 18 | Well I , I think after this er people have n't appreciated yet that they 've , the grounds have become a bit safer than they were the hooligan element seemed to be taking over , they have er closed circuit television now , at Walsall , so they can get to the hot spot of any trouble and er they erm the ground |
| 19 | All night rave parties involving music and dancing have become a way of life for a large section of young people . |
| 20 | Shortages have become a way of life here , to find these people queueing for staple products shows just how desperate the situation has become . |
| 21 | I am convinced that simple answers , in working man 's English and full of hard facts ( often lacking in your replies ) , would alleviate the impression many of us hold that you have become a master in the art of waffling . |
| 22 | Unused for worship since the seventies , hymns are now left to the churchyard chaffinches and the pews have become a home for roosting butterflies . |
| 23 | I mean , for instance , in my dreams er cars have taken on a very distinct personal symbolism that has really nothing to do with what you might think , because of personal experiences of mine , and I now know that whenever I dream about cars it always always has this but that 's because of something that happened to me and because of my personal erm kind of experiences , so cars have become a dream symbol . |
| 24 | The flame-belching fires and smoke of the great Nova Huta steelworks at Krakow in Poland have become a stock shot of television coverage of Eastern Europe 's environmental crisis , a begrimed image of what was once an icon of progress . |
| 25 | One of his most interesting acquisitions was of 36 hectares of levels in the Cuckmere valley , on part of which he constructed ponds , some of which have become a reed bed . |
| 26 | The book will concentrate on the period since the mid 1960s during which foreign stars have become a fixture in every county and many league teams . |
| 27 | Forced Sales of players like Paul Simpson and Lee Nogan for three quarters of a million pounds simply to keep the club alive have become a neccessity . |
| 28 | Who is constantly arguing for proper scientific evaluation of all the interventions which have become a matter of habit with many midwives and obstetricians , like artificial membrane rupture ? |
| 29 | It would not be compatible with the duty of the Secretaries of State to ‘ promote the education of the people of England and Wales ’ , or with their accountability to Parliament , to abdicate from leadership on educational issues which have become a matter of lively public concern . |
| 30 | Another concern we have is that special employment and training measures , ( now catering for over 31,000 people in the North ) , have become a substitute for jobs — a way of reducing the official unemployment statistics and complementing the massive statistical fraud which those figures now represent . |