Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Overconstrained designs tend to become a compromise between these well defined parameters , which generally leads to low-risk , slow product development . |
| 3 | But comparing rivals ' performances has become a discipline in its own right , and the consultants are out in force |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was a statement that summoned up some private vision they had of her , the simple words swelling to become a vehicle for all their feelings about her . |
| 6 | Shortages have become a way of life here , to find these people queueing for staple products shows just how desperate the situation has become . |
| 7 | I mean , for instance , in my dreams er cars have taken on a very distinct personal symbolism that has really nothing to do with what you might think , because of personal experiences of mine , and I now know that whenever I dream about cars it always always has this but that 's because of something that happened to me and because of my personal erm kind of experiences , so cars have become a dream symbol . |
| 8 | The first involves the statutory local planning process ; for the location of quarries , mines , factories or holiday complexes in rural areas has become a source of conflict among local social groups . |
| 9 | The central road between the gardens had become a parade ground . |
| 10 | But it has also begun to create a corporate culture where some companies have become a kind of economic prison where senior management can legally abuse and ill-treat their employees , and silence any protest with the threat of the sack . |
| 11 | The development of massive and little used collections in universities has become a matter of custom — a practice scarcely requiring justification , unless taken to task . |
| 12 | So exploiting the capacity of existing stations has become a priority . |
| 13 | ‘ Charles 's problem has been that he married a 19-year-old inexperienced girl who over the years has become a world figure , the most famous woman on the planet . |
| 14 | Because the panic attacks had become a habit with her , I spent a few sessions with Eileen teaching her how to overcome them . |
| 15 | Alternative accommodation in the metropolitan area for a new breed of large steamships had become a matter of some urgency . |
| 16 | Research in neutral networks has become a growth industry . |
| 17 | The Lord of the Rings has become a classic . |
| 18 | She gave them an understanding of the qualities needed to become a star . |
| 19 | The movies had become a story-telling medium , and , as had been the case with earlier fictional forms such as the melodrama and the ‘ dime novel ’ , the stories would necessarily have to be given a recognizable social setting . |
| 20 | Thus , a facility which at first appeared a useful addition to arts development resources had become a source of extra responsibility for many advisers , consuming time they could ill afford . |
| 21 | Affordable housing for families had become a priority . |
| 22 | Is Horace , at the close of a poem published only a few years before the end of his own life , talking at and through " Torquatus " , talking to Rome , to the culture whose imperial destiny was beginning to seem less and less convincing and whose traditional virtues had become a matter of pious rhetoric ? |
| 23 | The gifts had become a pressure , an embarrassment , and her refusal to accept them had made him manipulative . |
| 24 | Within a few days the whispers had become a roar — South Africa for the 1995 World Cup . |
| 25 | The balance of payments has become a stranglehold . |
| 26 | I asked Leppard to write them for me , because I felt that the standard cadenzas had become a bit worn out . ’ |
| 27 | Then I got the nuts off , by which time these two ladies had become a crowd of people staring at me changing this tyre , and then it becomes a performance . |
| 28 | The book will concentrate on the period since the mid 1960s during which foreign stars have become a fixture in every county and many league teams . |
| 29 | However , borrowing to meet health and financial commitments has become a fact of life for many mothers on benefit . |
| 30 | The report accused the military of re-establishing the repressive structures of the former Duvalier dictatorship and concluded that torture , executions and arbitrary arrests had become a part of daily life . |