Example sentences of "[verb] become [adj] business " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Rugby has become big business and a spectator sport . |
| 3 | Criminal legal aid has become big business for lawyers . |
| 4 | The water industry has become big business . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Over the last 30 years , research has become big business , and has been a key element in the formation of new academic disciplines . |
| 7 | Charity has become big business . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It has become big business with a huge amount of money riding on the outcome . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Three years ago , pondkeeping became big business , and I started selling goldfish and a few small Koi , ’ said Ken . |
| 11 | By the late nineteenth century Champagne had become big business , as the very industrialised impression of this drawing of Moët & Chandon 's bottling hall depicts |
| 12 | By 1896 , his enterprise had become big business and he had more than 60 products . |
| 13 | The CWS , and later the Scottish CWS , had become big business . |
| 14 | Nazi-hating had become big business . |
| 15 | That 's a lot of people , so as in the nature of things , dieting became big business with faddy diets and weight-loss systems abounding . |
| 16 | But the price tags attached to the various deals over the past year have also shown that musicians and copyright have become big business . |
| 17 | As the heritage boom gathers pace , made-to-measure company and family biographies have become big business . |
| 18 | Charity Christmas cards have become big business over the years , but it 's not always clear just how much they benefit charitable organisation . |
| 19 | Set up last century by charitable foundations to support local cultural activities and to combat usury , they have become big business . |
| 20 | But in the opinion of one analytical chemist connected with racing , designer drugs have become big business in America and side-by-side with their development have come masking agents — innocent in themselves but if administered at the same time capable of totally wiping out any trace of them . |