Example sentences of "have become [adv] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The province has become sadly familiar with news of lay-offs and redundancies , factory closures and company collapses . |
| 2 | The Audit Commission has become increasingly influential over education policy . |
| 3 | CambsTEC in Cambridge says : ’ Over recent months , CambsTEC has become increasingly concerned about Youth Training 's ability to meet the increasing demands placed upon it , due to the limited employment opportunities presently available to young people . ’ |
| 4 | It includes structures that ( according to some observers ) have facilitated policy discontinuity — a discontinuity not incompatible with an empirical orientation to change — yet comprises such an interdependent complex of political bodies that it has become increasingly difficult for government to govern and to initiate radical and comprehensive change . |
| 5 | These include a consideration of the history of the migratory process , the impact of returnees and migrant remittances , the consequences of various international aid projects , and of the way in which Pakistan 's economy as a whole has become increasingly dependent on migrant remittances . |
| 6 | On the adverse side , the field has become too small for comfort , and it is not easy to line up the binoculars on the target . |
| 7 | It may be objected that the identification of such continuities bases a far-fetched proposition on simple coincidences , against which one can argue that it simply extends to the Reeve 's tale an alert manner of reading which has become absolutely orthodox in respect of the Miller 's Tale . |
| 8 | Finally , since 1979 the educational system in Britain has become less concerned with equality . |
| 9 | With the US dollar buying only 116 Japanese yen , US companies should be slashing their prices in Japan — but they claim that they ca n't — Apple Japan Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc say they are not benefiting from the strong yen because they buy so much from Japan , and that has become more expensive in dollar terms as the yen has risen . |
| 10 | In general , the topic has become more prominent in management and trade union circles over the last few years . |
| 11 | The use of computers in cartography has had a number of effects ; first of all , cartography as a discipline has become more independent of geography . |
| 12 | I 've become very choosy about food since researching my latest novel , PORTENT ( Hodder & Stoughton , £14.99 ) , which is about weird ecological disasters . |
| 13 | But the new Karen had become sickeningly selfless in bed . |
| 14 | In the early eighteenth century the West Indian islands had established their position as the overseas area that meant most to Britain , and had become completely dependent on sugar and on slaves to grow the sugar . |
| 15 | During the campaign , which focused on opposition accusations that Charles had become too authoritarian in style , the Prime Minister had suggested that the DFP could win all 21 seats . |
| 16 | Presumably he had become as immune to disgust as he obviously was to the sweet-sour smell of his mortuary . |
| 17 | As a former aide to president Johnson told Paul Light in early 1979 : From the president 's perspective Congress had become impossibly formless in structure . |
| 18 | A Chinese social scientist studying student behaviour told me that since the demonstrations at the end of 1986 , many had become less interested in education . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was institutions like the dowry system which made the East African Asian Patels status conscious , or maybe they used the dowry with such enthusiasm because they had become so preoccupied with status as a result of their role in East Africa . |
| 20 | Portable electric cement mixers have become increasingly popular with DIY enthusiasts . |
| 21 | In an increasingly health-conscious world , executives from Brazil to Britain have become increasingly fed-up with luncheon excesses . |
| 22 | In the United Kingdom , for example , executive-level civil servants have become increasingly interested in policy issues , despite their formal assignment to implementation . |
| 23 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 24 | The problems of equipment-cost inflation have become so crucial in Defence planning that it is worth recalling briefly how the British weapon procurement system works . |
| 25 | China 's leaders have become so fearful of revolt that Tiananmen is guarded round the clock by uniformed soldiers with guns while the rest of Peking remains firmly under martial law . |
| 26 | It will also provide additional conference facilities which have become so important to College income . |
| 27 | When understood as our ‘ extra-somatic means of adaption ’ they have become almost defi-nitional of culture ( White 1959 ) . |
| 28 | Since then , however , few new hydrogels have become routinely available for contact lens work , whereas the wider exploration of hydrogels in other biomedical applications has increased . |
| 29 | A number of Community Mothers and parents have become more involved in community activities such as mother and toddler groups and Adult Education programmes involving literacy and personal development as a result of their contact with the Community Mothers programme , so that once the process of change and empowerment has begun for them it develops a momentum in other directions . |
| 30 | These areas of conduct have become more subject to self-constraint and less subject to external constraint . |