Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] become [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are lines round my eyes and my hair has become a hag 's rope . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The origin of the Swastika has become a source of speculation for western researchers throughout time . |
| 5 | The parliament has become a garrison . |
| 6 | Like the video recorder and the pocket calculator , the PC has become a commodity item . |
| 7 | Strict liability has become a basis on which a victim can sue a producer . |
| 8 | An undercover detective said : ‘ Stalking has become a problem that we must take seriously . ’ |
| 9 | When a haemophiliac wants to become a butcher it makes sense to discourage him . |
| 10 | An independent report supporting allegations that senior managers in the procurement office at the US National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) have systematically discriminated against African-Americans and have operated a ‘ social network ’ in which sexual favours are exchanged for career advancement has become the focus of a campaign by two civil rights organizations to improve conditions for blacks at NIH . |
| 11 | Money has become a thing of no value : usury , once a sin , is now the faith of nations . |
| 12 | Third … the budget has become a vehicle for reducing inequalities … |
| 13 | She was buried at Cholsey where her grave has become a shrine for fans from all over the world . |
| 14 | Now , at a cost of around $7 million , he has , and the dilapidated eight-storey warehouse has become the Tribeca Film Centre , a tailor-made prestige base for De Niro 's company , and other East Coast film types : Brian De Palma has offices there , as do Miramax , the independent company that produced sex , lies and videotape . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Football has become the focus for a new kind of identity for working-class male youth and it is quite possible that other forms of sport — cricket for instance — will be similarly used . |
| 18 | The Kandy perehera has become a highlight of religious life throughout the island . |
| 19 | Throughout the 1980s the North-East has become a magnet for new investment . |
| 20 | I 'm thinking really of the way misogyny has become a sort of public spectacle |
| 21 | In short , after promising to hit the ground running , people wonder why the President has become the leader of the Slow Is Beautiful Movement . |
| 22 | The seal has become a medusa , a jellyfish . |
| 23 | None of what he found now seems novel but that is , perhaps , because the study has become a classic . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Whether offensive or defensive strategies are being reassessed , the Gulf War has brought home the fact that automation has become the cornerstone of virtually all new military systems — so much so that we are moving steadily towards a fully automated battlefield . |
| 26 | But it is not generally the stuff that appears on television , where self-restraint has become the norm . |
| 27 | ‘ The human standard of living has become the planet 's standard of dying . |
| 28 | Since the introduction of the magic lightweight mountain bike , cycling has become the United Kingdom 's second most popular active sport and hundreds of cycle clubs hold events right through until October . |
| 29 | The two-yearly conference of the International Association for Mass Communication Research has become a focus for critical communication researchers from around the world , according to Pradip Thomas , Coordinator of WACC 's Asian Programme . |
| 30 | The debate over research has become the battleground for the competing ideologies of the academic community and of the state . |