Example sentences of "has become an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orchard House in Wendlebury near Bicester has become an emergency centre receiving refugees direct from the Bosnian War Zone . |
| 2 | The old monolithic Communist party has become an anachronism . |
| 3 | Their form of mutual ownership has become an anachronism . |
| 4 | The jet has become an aviation legend . |
| 5 | For Adorno , though , the audience — indeed , the entire production-consumption process — has become an abstraction , resting on ‘ an idealist inversion of the abstract and the concrete ’ ( ibid : 49 ) , in which real historical moments and differentiations of practice have no place . |
| 6 | Tact , in eighties Britain , has become an affectation . |
| 7 | What was once a polite lament over lost species and habitats has become an outcry , a powerful force which both national and international authorities can no longer ignore . |
| 8 | ‘ The Libyan desert has become an inferno where the front line moves continuously as if it had gone mad , ’ wrote Monelli , an Italian war correspondent . |
| 9 | As a result , TV production has become an issue both for agencies and advertisers . |
| 10 | Prison security has become an issue , especially since the troubles in Northern Ireland , and it is worth noting that the 1983 report of the Chief Inspector of Prisons suggested that the lessons of the 38-prisoner-escape from the Maze could be applied to England and Wales . |
| 11 | Instead of just being part of the context within which politics occurred and was constrained , it has become an issue in politics on which interests and parties were keenly divided . |
| 12 | We appreciate that , over the past 12 months , unemployment has become an issue again , as the figures have begun to rise . |
| 13 | Immigration to France since the Second World War has become an issue of major social , economic and political importance . |
| 14 | And for many of Britain 's best known companies the cost of law has become an issue in a way it never was before . |
| 15 | It has become an indicator of status , the number of television screens you own a factor in your popularity . |
| 16 | It has become an art to both beat the target projections and the cuts without offending important political constituencies . |
| 17 | Protest itself has become an art form since the end of General Franco 's dictatorship . |
| 18 | He has become an expert layman ( and a doctor groupie ) . |
| 19 | He knew little of health administration before accepting the position but has become an expert during four years of radical change in the NHS . |
| 20 | The emphasis is , therefore , on the conjugal bond , to such an extent that marriage has become an index of ‘ normality ’ or ‘ settling down ’ and is now a status formally open to almost everyone of the appropriate age [ … ] . |
| 21 | ‘ Corrie Palmer has become an obsession with you , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Over the years , the mobile service has become an institution in the Pennine communities served by the line , actively supported by local clergy and Christians . |
| 23 | The spread of the Apple Macintosh within publishing to the point where it has become an industry standard . |
| 24 | Even if well fed , they can not stop searching and exploring , as this has become an end in itself in their behaviour repertoire . |
| 25 | We gained the impression that — like several other practices in primary education — the strategy of grouping has become an end in itself rather than a device adopted for particular educational purposes ; moreover , as a strategy grouping may have become so deeply ingrained in primary consciousness and practice that to ask questions about its educational purposes may seem , to some , almost impertinent . |
| 26 | FOR MANY years British golfers in search of winter sunshine headed for the fairways of Spain or Portugal , but with good exchange rates against the dollar the Atlantic seaboard of the United States has become an alternative . |
| 27 | Pennick and Devereux are blunt on this point : ‘ The dowsing rod has become an implement to authorise the acceptance of subjective ideas as factual statements . ’ |
| 28 | The fireball has become an ember . |
| 29 | Just because Jenkins , courtesy of Davies and Norster , has become an insider does not mean he will keep his thoughts to himself . |
| 30 | In China alone there are about 250 million practitioners of the art ; in the West tai chi chuan has become an aspect of medicine . |