Example sentences of "become a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Time has moved on since you first started dealing with someone who has become a major influence in your life and now you need to re-work your thoughts and opinions . |
| 32 | Contaminated land has become a major issue , and many companies have leapt in , touting biotechnological , chemical or physical processes as the panacea for clean-up . |
| 33 | Because of changes in society in general , and in the student and academic population in particular , bias has become a major issue in academic writing ( reflected for example in current arguments over " political correctness " ) . |
| 34 | And it has meant that product design has become a major factor in product management . |
| 35 | of Britain 's exports — it has become a major factor in world trade and international power-broking . |
| 36 | The January Sales have become a major event — many people queue overnight in London 's Oxford Street so they can be first through the doors of the big department stores . |
| 37 | By the autumn of 1917 , food queues had become a major grievance and demands for a more equitable distribution of food led to mass demonstrations and even strikes in many parts of the country . |
| 38 | Now owned and being developed by chip manufacturer , Intel , DVI has become a major focus for multimedia . |
| 39 | Palestinian stubbornness has become a major stumbling block to the peace process as conceived by the United States . |
| 40 | Worldwide , indeed , ‘ exotic ’ species introduced by human beings have become a major cause of extinctions : probably second in importance only to loss of habitat . |
| 41 | Now that many previously rich Arab states are virtually spent-up , oil has become a major method of paying for weapons . |
| 42 | It might be noted at this point that in recent years there has been a dramatic growth in the volume of business conducted in the interbank market and this has become a major source of liquidity for banks . |
| 43 | Experimentation with colour and support has become a major preoccupation for him . |
| 44 | The dependence of the individual on the group and on certain individuals within it has become a major theme in any analysis of Japanese society . |
| 45 | The Oxford Advanced Learner 's Dictionary ( or OALD ) uses such markup , and for this reason has become a major resource for the current project . |
| 46 | Television , which had become a major force in American political life , was essential to Reagan 's success in obtaining the Republican nomination in 1980 . |
| 47 | These departments have become a major force in local government and are among the main spending departments after education . |
| 48 | The interpretation of the events of 1868 has become a major topic of controversy among historians of Japan . |
| 49 | The Great Idea had become a major disaster , she had been lucky to escape with her life . |
| 50 | The fact that the country has become a major exporter means a boost to the balance of payments of something over £7 billion per year in 1984 as opposed to a debit of some £4 billion ten years ago . |
| 51 | Bush appeared to have recovered from what was later described as gastric influenza by the following day , but this was the second occasion within a year that the health of the 67-year-old President — and the possible succession of Vice-President Dan Quayle — had become a major news issue [ see p. 38183 ] . |
| 52 | A second team is currently working at Moscow airport , which has become a major transit point for people without proper documents . |
| 53 | Endothelin-1 has become a major research topic since its discovery and characterisation as a potent vasoconstrictor . |
| 54 | His book , 30 Ans du Cinema Americain has become a seminal text for cinephiles everywhere . |
| 55 | There the 12th of July parade had been re-routed to take it away from the ‘ Tunnel ’ , part of the traditional route which had become a Catholic area . |
| 56 | Goremykin , the premier had become a mere figurehead in charge of no major department , and individual ministers reverted to reporting independently and in haphazard fashion to the Tsar . |
| 57 | And in 500 years , when the distinction between twentieth-century decades will have become a mere specialist detail ( as is the distinction , for most of us , between the 1840s and the 1850s ) ? |
| 58 | Joe continued to look over his shoulder to where the figure in the distance had become a mere speck . |
| 59 | Since Siegfried Gohr left the Kunsthalle to become Director of the Ludwig , the Kunsthalle has become a mere exhibition space without a director and without a programme . |
| 60 | I was sad to see him die , because he had become a good friend . |