Example sentences of "[noun sg] have become the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 70-year old woodland has become the first plantation forest to be declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) by English Nature . |
| 2 | Tartus has become the primary maintenance facility for Soviet submarines operating in the Mediterranean . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the mythology of modern soccer , the ‘ scout ’ , an expert in a shabby raincoat has been replaced by the more avaricious figure of the ‘ agent ’ , the character with the car-phone who along with the club chairman has become the financial ‘ Lucifer ’ of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 . |
| 7 | A BABY ostrich called Linford after the Olympic flyer has become the first of his kind to be born in Britain outside a zoo . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Midsummer has become the high point of the operatic year in London , especially where new work is concerned . |
| 10 | An Oxford priest has become the first in the country to announce he 'll leave the Church of England following the vote to ordain women priests . |
| 11 | A village which has been hit by a big increase in crime has become the first in Britain to install video cameras on its roads . |
| 12 | In some companies reading e-mail has become the first task of the morning . |
| 13 | Inhibition of gastric acid secretion has become the traditional medical treatment for reflux oesophagitis . |
| 14 | THEFT has become the fastest growing business with more than £2 billion worth of goods stolen every year , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 15 | Robert Wilson from John O'Gaunt Golf Club has become the 40th recipient of the Gold Award in the Golf Foundation Merit Award Scheme . |
| 16 | By 1542 , Henry 's fear had become the dominant emotion and he ordered Parliament to legislate against those who used incantations and practices of sorcery aimed at killing or injuring people , or destroying their goods and chattels . |
| 17 | ‘ In the village , my deformity had become the sole topic of conversation , ’ Panna told me . |
| 18 | Students on the Media course at Stroud College have become the first in the country to get permission to broadcast to the public . |
| 19 | On the one hand , Kautsky argued that the state was an instrument of the ruling class , and that it ‘ will not cease to be a capitalist institution until the proletariat has become the ruling class ’ ( Kautsky , 1971 , p. 110 ) . |
| 20 | But capitalism has dwindled into the economy , and its management has become the sole area of dispute : an autonomous , uncontested economic system whose necessities are increasingly disarticulated from human need . |
| 21 | A nine-year-old boy has become the youngest in history to pass an A-level in mathematics at the time of writing . |
| 22 | Eight years on , that DIY exercise has become the main display pool , and is working as well as ever . |
| 23 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 24 | Edinburgh District Council has become the first UK city authority to promote a car-pooling scheme , following the launch of a commercial venture earlier this year [ see ED 55 ] . |
| 25 | The Vale of White Horse district council has become the first to set its Poll Tax at £412 . |
| 26 | Going out to work had become the normal pattern of their lives , not a deviant one . |
| 27 | With , until recently , so many ‘ deals ’ being done , agency work had become the high-profile end of surveying practice . |
| 28 | For the anarchists , the POUM and sections of the Socialist left the social revolution within the Republican zone had become the chief reason for fighting fascism and , indeed , the only basis upon which workers and poor peasants could be expected to fight it . |
| 29 | In all parts of the country Wesleyan Methodism had become the chief alternative to the Established Church and in purely agricultural regions religious differences often amounted to a choice between either the Church of England or Wesleyan and Primitive Methodism . |
| 30 | Punishment in the community has become the other side of Conservative penal policy . |