Example sentences of "have become [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps , not surprisingly , in a short space of time life skills training has become detached from the wider objectives associated with liberal humanist education : the point being that teaching young people about society has been replaced by criteria designed to alter their relationship with it . |
| 2 | In the case of many other states parties , the Convention has become incorporated into the domestic law , thus discharging a primary rather than a secondary function ( i.e. coming into operation only in the event of a failure of domestic remedies ) . |
| 3 | Over the years that The Women Artists Slide Library has been collecting and documenting the work of women artists it has become sensitised to the many issues around health and disability . |
| 4 | The former take little account of the latter although much of the HMI 's thinking has become known over the same period i.e. the late 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 5 | No side has won successive grand slams since Wavell Wakefield 's England of 1924 , though it is worth recalling that what has become known as the Irish Problem deprived Wales in Barry John 's farewell year , 1972 ; they won handsomely against England , France and Scotland but like the Scots dared not venture to Dublin at the height of The Troubles . |
| 6 | The results of these and other experiments fit in well with the predictions of what has become known as the standard electroweak model . |
| 7 | This gives rise to the danger of what has become known as the two-thirds , one-third society in which the majority obtains secure well-paid full-time ‘ core ’ jobs and the minority become ‘ marginalised ’ , obtaining less well-paid , part-time , temporary , ‘ peripheral ’ jobs and hovering on the verge of poverty . |
| 8 | Secondly , we outline what has become known as the Keynesian theory of national income determination . |
| 9 | The monitoring network has become known as the radioactive incident monitoring network ( RIMNET ) and has , as its prime responsibility , the detection of abnormal increases in radiation levels within the UK of the kind that might arise from an overseas nuclear accident . |
| 10 | The school is a snapshot of the American West , the great swath of the Plains between the Missouri River and the Rockies that makes up one fifth of continental America but which in the last generation has become known as the Empty Quarter , or the Dying Heart of the US . |
| 11 | Spasticity , which comes from the word ‘ spasm ’ , has become known as the common term for the whole range of cerebral palsy handicaps but the three forms are significantly different . |
| 12 | The modern world has become dominated by the rational and technical society where specialisation in work is no longer related to traditional skills or crafts ( based in the home ) but to the economic and functional necessity of the marketplace . |
| 13 | In an age which has become dominated by the Gross National Product and the Dow — Jones Index , the level of interest rates and the state of the pound , the money supply and the Public Sector Deficit , and at a more mundane level , the Sunday colour supplements offering a world of gourmet food and package holidays in the sun , it is a warning which is easily muffled by our culture . |
| 14 | The -e has become attracted to the -ly ; the speller is seeing the word as a whole , instead of as love + ly |
| 15 | Community policing is a preventive rather than a crime control made of policing and in the United Kingdom it has become associated in the popular image particularly with those inner-city areas where crime rates have risen sharply and where police relations with ethnic minorities have deteriorated , although it is also a response to the police 's loss of contact with other sections of the community , especially young people ( Schaffer 1980 ) . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , it has become established as the only real alternative for organisations seeking to avoid or escape proprietary , single vendor solutions . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it has become established as the only real alternative for organisations seeking to avoid or escape proprietary , single-vendor systems . |
| 18 | Nature conservationists and farmers ( who both understand what does happen to abandoned land ) should know better , but in the past few years , seem to have become possessed by the same fear of some dark , prolific genie escaping from the bottle . |
| 19 | In the house he now wined and dined in a style that not even Grandfather Funnell had ever done , but all paid for by Grandfather Funnell 's wife , who seemed to have become rejuvenated by the smart , young , fast-talking Mr Jones . |
| 20 | Perhaps the second fragment had become detached at the same time and simply fallen to the ground where she had picked it up . |
| 21 | So the patron saint had become absorbed into the feudal world . |
| 22 | March 1953 , by which time United Soviet States of Russia had become isolated from the western world , refusing to accept Marshall Aid and hiding behind the ‘ Iron Curtain ’ which they had created . |
| 23 | The government emphasized the need to improve relations with neighbouring countries , which had become strained during the last year of Rajiv Gandhi 's government . |
| 24 | Within a short space of time , the laboratory had ceased to be involved in the launch vehicles , themselves ( so making ‘ Jet Propulsion ’ a highly anomalous title ) , and had become connected to the newly-formed NASA empire . |
| 25 | The case method had become adopted as the dominant method of legal study in the elite American law schools in the period up to the First World War . |
| 26 | There was , of course , a mortuary chapel — indeed Kensal Green had two chapels , so that Anglicans and Dissenters , even in death , could remain segregated ; but the dead had become divorced from the Christian communities to which they had once belonged . |
| 27 | It showed how firmly union officials had become embedded in the governing structure and how reluctant Labour politicians were to jeopardize the chances of gaining office . |
| 28 | This was published and printed from tiny offices in the centre of Dar es Salaam by R.B. Thaker , an Asian printer and stationer who had become committed to the nationalist cause and assisted TANU with its printing work on a number of occasions . |
| 29 | Her eyes had become focused on the firm line of his lips , and a scalding message raced into her belly where it clenched in a strange , anticipatory tingle . |
| 30 | In the borderlands themselves , in Poland , for example — as Rosa Luxemburg so cogently argued — the interests of the aristocracy of the minority peoples ( where it existed ) had become interwoven with the Tsarist order . |