Example sentences of "it [verb] become the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most recently , the company has concluded an agreement whereby it has become the exclusive installers for the American Decoturf range of tennis surfaces in the UK . |
| 2 | It was taken by Madeiran emigrants to various parts of the world , including the Hawaiian islands , where it has become the Hawaiian ukelele . |
| 3 | It has become the premier institution of higher education in the maintained sector in Wales , and especially since the transfer of responsibility from the DES to the Welsh Office in April 1978 , it has occupied a unique position in that , compared to England with its large number of polytechnics and to Scotland with its three central institutions which are analogous to polytechnics , it is the only polytechnic in Wales . |
| 4 | Finding work and migration It has become the common wisdom that using relatives to help you find work — associated in the past with the early phase of industrialization and more recently with informal methods of recruiting casual labour — is of little significance in the present . |
| 5 | The strategy which he argues for in the early nineteen thirties , and it subsequently becomes the dominant strategy of the Party and Mao becomes the er recognized leader of the Communist Party er really at the beginning of the second half of the nineteen thirties , nineteen thirty five nineteen thirty six , around that time it has become the dominant position . |
| 6 | As a consequence many large firms began to conduct their own market research until , more recently , it has become the specialised trade of advertising agencies and professional market research organisations . |
| 7 | Digital Equipment Corp is very much an also-ran in X-terminals with its VXT 2000 line , but the firm says it wants to become the dominant player in the market and to that end is following leader Network Computing Devices Inc in going after OEM business — minimum 3,000 units . |
| 8 | It is often asserted that the First World War rescued the Unionist Party from an impossible position and left it poised to become the dominating force ; the war broke up Liberalism and destroyed the Liberal-Labour alliance , so opening the way for Unionism ; Lloyd George carried the party to victory in 1918 , incurred the odium for the post-war slump and was cast aside ungratefully in 1922 . |
| 9 | James Hadley , writing his will in 1532 , remembered the church as one of Somerset 's ‘ holy places ’ , and by the late eighteenth century it had become the frequent destination of topographical writers who came searching for the romantically sublime . |
| 10 | It had become the regular haunt of hearty working men with fearsome bottom cleavage , who shared an appreciation of small newspapers with big headlines , a moderate spread at an affordable price and a well-turned ankle . |
| 11 | In local elections on Dec. 17 , 1989 [ see also p. 37197 ] , the PSD won 31.46 per cent of the vote ( as compared with 50.2 per cent in the July 1987 general election when it had become the only party in the post-1974 era to secure an absolute parliamentary majority — see pp. 35388-90 ) . |
| 12 | Positivism in turn can be seen as a set of ideas tending to reinforce the ideological domination ( or ‘ hegemony ’ ) of the bourgeois class at a yet later stage when it had become the ruling class in Europe : if criminal actions can be described as the result of mindless pathology rather than rational choice this both absolves capitalism of any blame for crime and helps to delegi-timize protest against the existing order ( Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 13 | Okay the video 's called Electric Ecology it was actually produced by er the Cen er Central Electricity Generating Board which does n't actually now exist it 's become the National Power and Nuclear Electric has n't it ? |