Example sentences of "[noun] have become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are lines round my eyes and my hair has become a hag 's rope . |
| 2 | Among many other activities of other fellows we may record that Professor Anna Davies gave the Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures at Harvard University , that Barbara Harvey has become a member of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts , and Hilary Ockendon a deputy director on OCIAM , the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics . |
| 3 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Software Products division has become a charter member of a new Tools Interface Standards committee , an industry group that aims to define specifications that enable vendors to enhance the interoperability and portability of 32-bit development tools and to improve the economics of developing 32-bit applications ; others include Borland International Inc , Intel Corp , Lotus Development Corp , Metaware Inc , Microsoft Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc and Watcom Ltd , which will work to define a set of tool interface specifications for 32-bit operating systems and provide an open forum . |
| 4 | But Brightness has become a money-spinner ; the Russians have become capitalists ; and the Beluga has become a pawn in an international game . |
| 5 | As she rightly points out , the effectiveness of metronidazole in rosacea was first reported in Britain and topical metronidazole has become a market leader in the United States . |
| 6 | The origin of the Swastika has become a source of speculation for western researchers throughout time . |
| 7 | The parliament has become a garrison . |
| 8 | Like the video recorder and the pocket calculator , the PC has become a commodity item . |
| 9 | Strict liability has become a basis on which a victim can sue a producer . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ But since then Colin has become a champion so I 'm quite sure that he would like a fairly substantial purse for the fight . |
| 12 | An undercover detective said : ‘ Stalking has become a problem that we must take seriously . ’ |
| 13 | Deborah Warner has become a cult figure for stark and emotive work . |
| 14 | The press has mushroomed , stalls are packed with newspapers and Romania has become a mecca for journalists from the West eager not only to report but instruct the new media , still largely partisan and biased , in western techniques and styles . |
| 15 | Money has become a thing of no value : usury , once a sin , is now the faith of nations . |
| 16 | Third … the budget has become a vehicle for reducing inequalities … |
| 17 | She was buried at Cholsey where her grave has become a shrine for fans from all over the world . |
| 18 | Sometimes this obstinacy was the refuge of the poor man who can not afford change and to whom stagnation has become a habit of mind necessary for survival ; at other times it represented a sound rejection of improper techniques culled by ‘ philosophical ’ amateurs from the journals of French and English agricultural societies . |
| 19 | Football has become a substitute for patriotism amongst the disaffected , half-educated white working-class youth of a nation which only a generation ago was respected and feared throughout the world . |
| 20 | The Kandy perehera has become a highlight of religious life throughout the island . |
| 21 | Throughout the 1980s the North-East has become a magnet for new investment . |
| 22 | I 'm thinking really of the way misogyny has become a sort of public spectacle |
| 23 | But comparing rivals ' performances has become a discipline in its own right , and the consultants are out in force |
| 24 | ‘ Going to Hungary has become a synonym for going to the West . |
| 25 | DELIGHTED Dawn Eddery has become a mum — thanks to a hospital waiting list . |
| 26 | The seal has become a medusa , a jellyfish . |
| 27 | None of what he found now seems novel but that is , perhaps , because the study has become a classic . |
| 28 | Subsequently , after the Second World War , that practice has become a token at Memorial Services on the nearest Sunday to the eleventh of November each year . |
| 29 | Or I might suspect too much vehemence in his insistence that he loves gibbons , and suggest that he is deceiving himself , that visiting the animals has become a habit without much joy in it . |
| 30 | Bobby has become a symbol of canine loyalty . |