Example sentences of "[conj] have become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here and in the United States , most experts now agree that a doctor is not obliged either ethically or legally to continue treatment when it 's refused or is useless or has become a burden to the patient . |
| 2 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 3 | AUDREY HEPBURN is up to her cat-like eyes in murder and dirty double crossing in this clever comedy thriller that has become a film classic . |
| 4 | In classical biological control , a natural enemy is introduced to control an organism that has become a pest in its absence . |
| 5 | Surprisingly , the turning point that saw a struggling business transformed into a trendsetting group that has become a household name can be traced back to a Dutch merchant banker , who persuaded Conran to widen his horizons . |
| 6 | One of the latter is a book that has become a favourite in the two years since it first appeared in hardback form . |
| 7 | You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage . |
| 8 | But his interest in them came out in a unique way almost twenty years ago when he founded a shop that has become a fixture on Prince Street Untitled . |
| 9 | Whereas a course of dealing can incorporate a term that has in effect become customary between the two parties in question , trade usage can incorporate a term that has become a custom amongst all the buyers and sellers dealing in the environment in question . |
| 10 | But Korn/Ferry have not developed the teamwork approach that has become a hallmark of Russell Reynolds . |
| 11 | The estate agent suggested an asking price and took some measurements and then a photograph , standing on the edge of the lawn that had become a meadow , where Rufus had stood and taken photographs a year before . |
| 12 | It stood like a slice of stale chocolate cake , marooned in a tar ox-bow , that had become a cul-de-sac when the main thoroughfare ploughed another course . |
| 13 | She had expected to spend that night with Edward and wake up beside him , the left-hand side , that had become a habit and it was a mistake , no doubt , to allow marriage to become a matter of habit , but that did n't prove that she was not a woman . |
| 14 | When he tried and saw the sky covered with rushing clouds , the lawn that had become a hay-field , the cedar 's wheeling branches , the gun levelled , there would come an explosion in his memory like the firing of that shot-gun , a redness in front of his eyes with splintered edges , then black-out . |
| 15 | Cranks was another revue that had become a sort of watchword for the kind of show this was . |
| 16 | Nor could she have said what made her so positive about this assumption that had become a fixture in her head — unless it was the fact of Silas 's previous near engagement to Doreen . |
| 17 | Examples of such housing were built in Europe in the 1940s , but when it came to the public sector imitations in this country , narrowness of concep-tion and meanness in execution translated the idea into the publicly owned slabs and boxes that have become a feature of the landscape in our major cities ( McDowell , 1983 ) . |
| 18 | This attractive black and white mammal has widespread human appeal and has become a symbol for conservation efforts both within China and internationally as the symbol of The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) . |
| 19 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |
| 20 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |
| 21 | The factory has expanded to four times its original size and has become a showpiece of British industry . |
| 22 | Much of this now forms part of Africa 's stock of debt as the recipient countries have been unable to service their export credits , and has become a burden on the export credit guarantee agencies of the EC governments . |
| 23 | The agreement contradicted the promise of Arab self-rule that Britain had made to Sherif Hussein of Mecca ( King Hussein 's great-grandfather ) and has become a byword for duplicity . |
| 24 | THE whole question of sex education in school has arisen in recent years and has become a matter of real importance . |
| 25 | This was a one-off film for Chaplin and he was well aware that to have sustained that role and that theme would have been to sacrifice much of his great following and to have become an artist with a more sectional support . |
| 26 | He had great force of character , and had become a legend in his own lifetime . |
| 27 | By then , he had been a Recorder for ten years and had become a QC in 1974 , continuing in active practice until January 1985 , since when Sir Anthony — he was knighted last year — has acted as both Ombudsman and Health Service Commissioner . |
| 28 | By the winter of 1920–1 the application of compulsion to the workers and peasants had become absolutely counterproductive , and had become a factor in the general collapse of the economy facing the Bolsheviks . |
| 29 | By the time Rune had unclothed her completely Gina 's whole body knew the intimate touch of his mouth and hands and had become a conflagration of need for the ultimate knowledge of the man himself . |
| 30 | After serving as US permanent representative at the UN , Young had spent two terms as mayor of Atlanta , an eight-year period during which the city had been transformed into a magnet for domestic and foreign investment and had become a symbol of the " New South " . |