Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As diverse evidence also indicates that the stars found in star-forming regions lose mass either from their surfaces or from surrounding accretion disks , a causal connection between stellar mass loss and the H-H objects has become a widespread article of faith . |
| 2 | In a survey of small businesses , Nat West said that late payment of trade debts has become a major problem over the past year . |
| 3 | But in the corporate structure this has become very much more common , in relation to a highly organized and fully capitalized market in which the direct commissioning of planned saleable products has become a normal mode . |
| 4 | But since then , 27-year-old Hall capped 21 times has become a central part of Wales ' dramatic recent resurgence . |
| 5 | The creation and use of computerised databases has become a key feature of the international information economy . |
| 6 | The poll is not analysed , but it is striking that countries where pollution from cars has become a major problem have the highest percentages of people who believe that the state of the environment requires urgent action : 85 per cent in Italy ( at the top of the list ) , where Milan , one of the world 's smoggiest cities , now has car-free days and the capital Rome also suffers severely from vehicle congestion and pollution ; 84 per cent in Greece , where restrictions on cars in Athens are imposed to save the citizens ' lungs and their ancient monuments ; 80 per cent in the most vehicle emission-conscious country in Europe , West Germany , whose dead trees have become the symbol of pollution . |
| 7 | Judge Geoffrey Vos told Brendan Glorney : ‘ In this particular part of the country the stealing of or from cars has become an absolute epidemic . |
| 8 | The eyes had become a jet-black bar that flamed . |
| 9 | The pomeshchiks had become a substantial body and provided the military backbone of the State . |
| 10 | It is also true that in the late 1970s and early 1980s unemployed school-leavers have become a longer-term and therefore more serious problem . |
| 11 | Alter almost three decades of escalating research effort , punctuated by occasional headline reports in the lay press , biosensors have become an integral part of analytical biochemistry . |
| 12 | Few can rival the Natural History Museum 's offer of drinks beneath its dinosaur , but Christmas and new-year parties have become a nice little earner for museums and galleries right across the country . |
| 13 | Although computers and calculators have become an accepted part of mathematical teaching their presence in the classroom , should not be taken as evidence per se of ‘ up-to-dateness ’ . |
| 14 | Bright images have become an accepted advantage of the existing system and the new design increases the brightness even further . |
| 15 | But as well as sharing in the donkey work , Platt 's goals have become a vital part of England 's armoury and before last week 's 4–0 win over Turkey he scored his country 's previous five goals . |
| 16 | Although camcorders have become a popular means of picture-taking , many more people are familiar with video in the form of table-top recorders ( VCRs ) for the time-shifting of television programmes and the viewing of rented films . |
| 17 | Ben Hope 's impressive 3040 feet has become a meagre 927 metres to satisfy Brussels and Luxembourg , who could n't care less . |
| 18 | One of Brazil 's biggest industrial areas has become an environmental time-bomb which could explode at any time . |
| 19 | A final threat to parliamentary government is increasing technocracy : ‘ the modern state in all advanced countries has become a formidable machine of which the control lies less in the hands of elected representatives of the people than of technicians , specialists , experts . |
| 20 | Leaving behind their Stalinist-era organisation and programme , Poland 's Communists want to become a left-wing parliamentary party capable of winning elections . |
| 21 | Catering for the sports enthusiasts has become a top priority for the weekend resort . |
| 22 | Her declared love of cakes has become an established part of her repertoire . |
| 23 | YELLOW lines have become a common feature of towns and cities though they are no less intrusive than when they were first introduced . |
| 24 | The disposal of trade , effluents has become an important factor in running factories in many industries all over the world , and attention has to be given to methods of dealing with waste waters in order to select the most economical methods , both in running costs and in capital expenditure . |
| 25 | The bright tangle of plants had become a funereal monochrome , and there was a dullness where there had previously been a dazzling glimpse of the Mediterranean . |
| 26 | But now , with unemployment touching 10 per cent and rising , undeclared work and workers have become a political scapegoat . |
| 27 | What is perhaps most striking in the past three decades is the way in which social movements of very diverse kinds have become an accepted part of political life in the Western democracies , and to some extent have provided models for movements in countries where the expression of criticism , dissent and opposition through formal political institutions is virtually impossible . |
| 28 | What was once a landscape of banks of back-to-backs has become an asymmetrical mess of flats and maisonettes . |
| 29 | What was once a landscape of banks of back-to-backs has become an asymmetrical mess of flats and maisonettes . |
| 30 | The A34 main road from Southampton to the midlands has become a familiar venue for contraflows and queues . |