Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] become [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The escalating costs associated with handling this raw material and the uncertain consequences of future government asbestos regulation … have necessitated our decision to work towards the elimination of asbestos from all our friction products and this eventuality has become an essential part of our long-term production and manufacturing plans . |
| 2 | A 70-year old woodland has become the first plantation forest to be declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) by English Nature . |
| 3 | Experimentation with colour and support has become a major preoccupation for him . |
| 4 | Change has become an ever-present aspect of life , dispelling many of the comfortable dogmas of the past , and offering the working population a new diversity and richness of opportunity . |
| 5 | Tartus has become the primary maintenance facility for Soviet submarines operating in the Mediterranean . |
| 6 | The Platinum Award has become a regular feature of Edinburgh College of Art 's jewellery curriculum and for several years students from the section have made it to the finals — frequently winning at least one of the prizes . |
| 7 | Reasons are that the PC has become the conventional engineering tool ; most DSP applications programs run under ms-dos ; hardware interfacing of target DSP boards to the PC has become a standard practice , and the PC represents a low cost entry point into the field of DSP development . |
| 8 | Bung in a card , plug in to the LAN , and your humble workaday PC has become a sexy , hi-tech LANstation . |
| 9 | Reasons are that the PC has become the conventional engineering tool ; most DSP applications programs run under ms-dos ; hardware interfacing of target DSP boards to the PC has become a standard practice , and the PC represents a low cost entry point into the field of DSP development . |
| 10 | SMOKING has become the main health concern of companies , with a sharp rise in the number introducing policies to control smoking at work , a conference on the issue was told yesterday . |
| 11 | Used in this way , the computer has become a valuable background resource in British schools rather than an agent of revolutionary change . |
| 12 | In addition , if in this century racism has become the prototypical instantiation of the concept of ‘ prejudice ’ , then similar justificatory strategies can be expected , when people deny racism and prejudice : in denying that one is racist , one is denying that one is prejudiced , and vice versa . |
| 13 | Palestinian stubbornness has become a major stumbling block to the peace process as conceived by the United States . |
| 14 | This versatile long sleeved shirt has become an essential part of my wardrobe . |
| 15 | For feminists , the acknowledgement of lesbian experience has become a central theoretical issue . |
| 16 | The Finaghy branch has become an important link in the chain , as far as the Halifax Property Services operation in the south Belfast and Lisburn area is concerned . |
| 17 | Because of the population turnaround in many rural areas , the definition of a rural community in a widespread and confused literature has become an elusive concept ( Lewis , 1979 ) and although most parts of the UK have reached Time C in Figure 5.4a , some areas are characterized by a mixture of repopulation and depopulation in Zone III , and depopulation and repopulation in Zone II , so that the hallmarks of both the population and depopulation quadrants of Figure 5.4b can be found together in a very small area . |
| 18 | If Nigel de Gruchy of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Women Teachers ( and there 's a catchy title if ever there was one ) can not weave any more magic into his protest than ‘ The national curriculum has become a political football being booted up and down the right wing of the Conservative Party , ’ he does n't deserve to be taken seriously . |
| 19 | What will be the likely effects of such judgements on someone for whom practising meditation has become an important part of life , perhaps helping them to cope with difficulties and gain a sense of freedom and peace ? |
| 20 | When Jakobson asserted that ‘ If the science of literature wants to become a real science it will have to recognize ‘ the device ’ as its sole ‘ hero ’ ’ ( O'Toole and Shukman 1977 : 37 ) , it was because he was concerned with the differential nature of literariness . |
| 21 | In the mythology of modern soccer , the ‘ scout ’ , an expert in a shabby raincoat has been replaced by the more avaricious figure of the ‘ agent ’ , the character with the car-phone who along with the club chairman has become the financial ‘ Lucifer ’ of football . |
| 22 | A BABY ostrich called Linford after the Olympic flyer has become the first of his kind to be born in Britain outside a zoo . |
| 23 | In only a half a century , television bought violence has become a central theme to the life of our young people . |
| 24 | Small traces may not hurt , but in households where modern hygiene has become a fanatical pursuit , the unhappy pet is at some risk . |
| 25 | What 's really moved me over the last three or four years , as AIDS has become a major threat in this country , and especially since spring 1985 with the rising public hysteria about it , is that it 's brought out tremendous reserves of strength in lesbians and gay men which show the importance of the achievements of the previous fifteen years . |
| 26 | In the long battle to combat the headbanging tendency of the far left , Labour has become a sterile shell : sanitised of socialism , anaesthetised against activism . |
| 27 | Welcome back : Over the last fifty years the car has become a vital part of most people 's lives . |
| 28 | Consequently , for lack of a better alternative , the car has become the favoured means of personal expression , or as an Autobacs Seven director , Kenzo Kido , puts it , ‘ the equivalent of life space . |
| 29 | COMPUTERISATION has become an urgent problem for Britain 's 36,000 family doctors . |
| 30 | The Underground has become an alternative gallery for artist 's work . |