Example sentences of "has become [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The anthropological fieldworker who eventually returns to the social setting of his homeland usually finds that it has become quite a different place . |
2 | The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics . |
3 | It is a question that needs to be asked now that , in theoretical terms , the affirmation of difference has become almost a new orthodoxy . |
4 | The term " Urgonian " has become almost a dirty word in Cretaceous stratigraphy , for it is not one of the internationally accepted stage names and it is said to be a diachronous , southern facies . |
5 | I know several inspectors who have refused a college scholarship , arguing that the time spent away from the force was time spent in structural limbo , and it has become almost a common adage that time away is time lost in ‘ the promotion stakes ’ . |
6 | Reproduced in calendars , on birthday cards , and in coffee-table books , this painting has become almost a ritualized symbol of the reverence which English people have for their countryside . |
7 | Since 1987 , the MTFS has become more an official pronouncement of the growth path of M0 than a useful guide to the methods of achieving policy objectives . |
8 | For companies like , pitching to investors has become virtually a full time job . |
9 | A spokesman said : ‘ It has become virtually a one-man book , with almost all the bets on the mighty Quinn . |
10 | IN the West Indies the appropriately coloured rainbow flag for friendship can sometimes be used to replace the plethora of different ensigns ( there are more ensigns than steel bands among the islands ) , but mostly it has become merely an additional flag . |