Example sentences of "[verb] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the haoles took everything , surfing became a gesture of revolt , a symbolic reassertion of power over superior forces . |
| 2 | Did her trick to catch the saint who avoided becoming a martyr . |
| 3 | Many elderly housebound people living alone feel the loss of their independence very keenly and fear becoming a burden to others . |
| 4 | Maybe I should consider becoming a Power Pack leader . |
| 5 | The programme reveals that the actor was a notable pianist and once considered becoming a concert pianist . |
| 6 | The tale is slight ; a voyage on a luxury train during which a down-on-his-luck-but-permanently optimistic producer attempts to regain the services and the affections of the famous actress he helped become a star . |
| 7 | Those are the words of Rose Laird , a pioneer in skincare who has become a legend in the beauty industry . |
| 8 | The objective of the Lausanne conference should be to encourage Kenya and its allies to emulate the conditions pertaining in the Kruger and Hwange national parks , where culling has become a necessity born out of successful conservation , rather than to encourage policies which could turn them into the run-down disaster zones Mr Leakey described . |
| 9 | Rescheduling of such debts has become a necessity for the private banks , and a practice which has emerged is that new agreements have been made conditional on such countries accepting the stringent programmes of the IMF which are intended to promote effective adjustment of a country 's balance of payments and ensure that the use of Fund resources is temporary . |
| 10 | He says : ‘ We are making more and more DCDs — Driver Controlled Deliveries — where the driver not only delivers a tanker of petrol to a filling station , but is trained to unload it into the underground storage tanks ’ This has become a necessity , as more and more petrol stations are operated by one person locked behind security windows . |
| 11 | And Sandra has become a style icon , for the fashion world particularly . |
| 12 | To post-war generations , the deli has become a way to stay connected , through the taste buds with their roots . |
| 13 | It is a cliche to say that it has become a way of life , and that the stone-throwing is only the public , propaganda face of a whole political , social , economic and psychological transformation — the Palestinians ' own perestroika — which both sustains the Intifada and lays the groundwork for the eventual transition to statehood . |
| 14 | However , the shame is that for some health service insiders it has become a way of life . |
| 15 | It has become a way of life for you . |
| 16 | ‘ It has become a way of life for me here — but it must be unsettling to the players . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been leading scorer at Boro for five out of the last seven seasons — but it has become a way of life to be talked about as the player who is leaving or out of the team . |
| 18 | 1985 : The BPI admit that home-taping has become a way of life and produces a booklet that estimates some 466 million hours of music were taped in the home during 1983 alone . |
| 19 | In most of the prisons , corruption has become a way of life and inmates believe that without taking recourse to corrupt practices they can not cope with the culture that prevails . |
| 20 | I do n't know which is most unlikely , but after studying in Louisiana , and spending a ghastly summer and a magical Christmas in New York , I have been savagely bitten by the travel bug , while writing the novel has become a way of life . ’ |
| 21 | Barter has become a way of life . |
| 22 | In recent days that particular visualization has become a bit more sophisticated . |
| 23 | These cases are an indication of the liberal attitude currently being taken by the courts , which have obviously recognised that the old saying that a security on a dwelling is ‘ as safe as houses ’ has become a bit of a mockery . |
| 24 | It has become a bit tiresome of late . |
| 25 | The series has become a bit of a cult in the UK , with Victor becoming much better known than the actor who plays him , Richard Wilson . |
| 26 | Mind you he has become a bit of an opinionated arsehole recently … more like Jonathan King , or Nina Myskow — y'know being deliberately contentious to get people to write in . |
| 27 | As long as the controls are there to make sure they 're not wandering around all over the place which one hears about Group 4 and their reputation for letting people go which has become a bit of a joke . |
| 28 | For the second , public ownership has become a question to be settled on the merits of the particular case . |
| 29 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |
| 30 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |