Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb -s] become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
| 2 | But as I argued earlier , the various attempts to construct a theory of nationalism have concentrated unduly on the twentieth century , and it has become apparent that a broader historical view needs to be taken if we are to develop an adequate scheme of explanation . |
| 3 | And it has become apparent that the elderly and poor will be most affected . |
| 4 | Charles took up watercolour painting nearly twenty years ago , and it has become one of his greatest pleasures . |
| 5 | In recent years , however , the world sugar prices have slumped and it has become one of the poorest areas in the Philippines . |
| 6 | Britain has been governed by south-east England for the past 13 years , and it has become possible for London and the Home Counties to ignore some aspects of reality . |
| 7 | The bond which assures the existence of the individual , and provides him with his basic loyalties to his father and brothers and cousins , is also the bond which assures the cohesion of the nations , and then of the world , ‘ but it does become weaker as the numbers become greater ’ . |
| 8 | But it has become one of the big post-war economic success stories , with one of the world 's most open trading systems and a business environment not far behind Switzerland , Japan and west Germany . |
| 9 | But it has become difficult to convince those hypochondriacs who also happen to be cat owners that there is no danger . |
| 10 | We have already seen this statement in St John Ackers ' postscript to the 1890 Education Act , but it has become popular again ( Van Uden , 1981 ) . |
| 11 | He has resisted attempts to remove him from the Maine Road board in the past , but it has become clear that Lee 's intervention provided much greater pressure on him to step aside . |