Example sentences of "[verb] become [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other cells especially sensitive to light became vestigial eyes , and those susceptible to vibrations became hearing organs , and so on . |
| 2 | It 's not long before an ex who in reality was a size-12 middle manager who played badminton and cooked a moderately engaging moussaka has become Super Ex — the international top model and cordon bleu squash champion with a masters degree in astrophysics . |
| 3 | Scott replaced former marketing director Ian Kennedy , who has become general manager for indirect business channels within the company . |
| 4 | Meanwhile SunPics has recruited Lalita Tademy from Alps Electric ( USA ) as its new vice president and general manager , replacing Bill Marr who has become vice president , US sales at Sun Microsystems . |
| 5 | It would not be difficult to show that the phrase ‘ the Rule of Law ’ has become meaningless thanks to ideological abuse and general over-use . |
| 6 | This is not just of interest to professional politicians or academic specialists ; local government has become front-page news , its leading politicians such as Ken Livingstone , David Blunkett and Derek Hatton have been catapulted to national fame and the local-central government conflict detailed in Chapter 4 has been a major issue in three successive general elections . |
| 7 | Technology and the Future of Work — crystallises many of his most radical ideas and has become compulsory reading , particularly in the corridors of his new department . |
| 8 | Louis Montrose , who has become New Historicism 's most eloquent theoretical exponent , has described the self-critical awareness which prompts a new relation between texts and history as based on : |
| 9 | Even chewing gum has become New Age — witness ginseng , that sine qua non of the Sixties spaced-out set , now available in chewing gum format from health stores . |
| 10 | This postponement of examination until completion has become normal practice and the use of epitomes of title when photocopies are supplied has reduced the procedure , in most cases , to a matter of minutes . |
| 11 | In just a few short years the throwline has become standard equipment for white water paddlers . |
| 12 | In what has become standard concern to make reparation to the Church in Russia , the authorities involved failed to think of the now homeless books . |
| 13 | It has become standard practice to picture the two cultures as standing in the most acute opposition at that time . |
| 14 | It has become usual practice for record companies to advance bands some money to underwrite the costs of these first tours . |
| 15 | What was once muscle has become plaited wood , frayed and plaited wood . |
| 16 | Consideration of the effects of stress in the workplace has meant that for many employers the workaholic has become bad news . |
| 17 | The close identity between fans and their club has weakened as football has become big business and as the players , who were once from the same working-class community as the fans , have become rich superstars . |
| 18 | Rugby has become big business and a spectator sport . |
| 19 | Criminal legal aid has become big business for lawyers . |
| 20 | The water industry has become big business . |
| 21 | The various Telethon type appeals have raised more than 50 million pounds in the past year and charitable giving has become big business and highly organised . |
| 22 | Over the last 30 years , research has become big business , and has been a key element in the formation of new academic disciplines . |
| 23 | Charity has become big business . |
| 24 | In fact , as film-makers have moved out of the studio and on to location , to achieve more realistic impressions of dramatic situations , the attraction of on-location filming into cities and regions has become big business . |
| 25 | It has become big business with a huge amount of money riding on the outcome . ’ |
| 26 | Violent censorship has become common place and journalists in Zaire who attempt to convey the truth are in constant fear for their lives . |
| 27 | The scientists who man the climatological observation posts are less cautious than they used to be now that the general theory of climate change has become common property ; government servants are more confident and outspoken ; and , while scepticism remains , no cabinet minister is likely to denounce the theory and the accompanying evidence as hysterical . |
| 28 | It has become common form to invoke the magic names of the French theorists , as if the names alone would cause a torpid academic establishment to collapse . |
| 29 | By 1987 Wilmink was able to conclude that the Act ‘ has had a stimulating effect on the development of plans for the construction of bicycle tracks ’ and that ‘ attention to bicycle facilities in all stages of planning , design and maintenance of the infrastructure has become common practice . ’ |
| 30 | Unfortunately this latter function is very difficult to generate using simple analogue circuits , So it has become common practice to approximate the velocity profile by linear ramp functions [ Figs. 8.8 ( b , c ) ] . |