Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [vb base] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When granting the abbey of Holyrood a foundation charter , David I had given its canons the right to build and profit from a burgh of their own , in what has since become the Canongate . |
| 2 | The inaugural exhibition , ‘ Fashion and History : a Dialogue ’ , is curated and installed by Katell le Bourhis , the former Met curator who has since become the director of Musee des Arts de la Mode et du Textil in Paris . |
| 3 | Copernica , his first in the US , did likewise , and Dream Dancer , a Group 1 winner in France that year , has since become the sire of last year 's Arc winner Suave Dancer . |
| 4 | The transition was then less abrupt than has since become the habit . |
| 5 | Lothian Region has successfully net the challenges of the past by anticipating the effects of proposed changes and , through cooperation between staff and the Directorate , implemented the changes necessary to ensure the survival and prosperity . |
| 6 | During the spring the Sol becomes a torrent as melt waters vastly increase the volume of water . |
| 7 | Judging by the number of recent articles , letters to newspapers and magazines and general comment on the future of the game , it is the controversy over professionalism which has rightly become the item for debate . |
| 8 | It sees the widow as the creator of life who has suddenly become the symbol of death , and who also , as an unsupported woman , may be an expensive burden on the rest of the ‘ tribe ’ for the remaining years of her life . |
| 9 | She has suddenly become the oppressor , the Marcos family the oppressed . |
| 10 | Happily , the advent of closed-circuit television has largely overcome the difficulty of an invisible console , even if the pipes themselves are still in an inconvenient place in relation to other instruments . |
| 11 | ‘ The major has just become the father of an eight-pound boy , ’ Stok said , and then there was a lot of soft rapid Russian , which was probably Stok wising the major up on me and my department . |
| 12 | The issue is the people 's right to choose their representatives and to hold them accountable ; and , in this English context , Parliament has already become the focus of the struggle for democracy , as it was to remain in subsequent centuries . |
| 13 | Liz , whose duel on the Montjuic mountain top with South African sensation Elana Meyer could bring an Olympic flashpoint , has already run the race several times in her thoughts . |
| 14 | It has also become the focus of protest for miners ' support groups all over Lancashire and further afield , as demonstrated by the early arrival of three young members of Lancaster Miners ' Support Group in a transit van . |
| 15 | The classic has now set the record and the longest-running TV comedy of all time — Compo and company first appeared on our screens in 1973 ! |
| 16 | Accordingly , the DMS has now become the Council 's diploma-level qualification in general management . |
| 17 | This has now become the standard internationally recognised format of the final report ( see chapter 3 , page 34 ) . |
| 18 | The global economic system has now become the conduit for the western universalising mission . |
| 19 | Also the multi-talented winger/disco dancer Lee Sharpe ( Sharp with an ‘ E ’ — quite appropriate really ) who has now overcome the mystery illness , lately diagnosed as viral meningitis , and presumably contracted at one of the many ‘ raves ’ which young Lee ( with two ‘ E's ) likes to attend . |
| 20 | Privatisation has now split the CEGB into three and the environmental research and development work is to be cut back . |
| 21 | The allegations come from one of the major 's Household Cavalry troopers who has now quit the regiment . |
| 22 | Darren bought a 72,000-mile Sierra Sapphire 16 months ago and has now run the mileage up to an incredible 112,500 miles with no attention apart from a new exhaust , replacement rev-counter and three services . |
| 23 | And I gather that it has n't cost the department too much money . |
| 24 | Christopher has n't shut the door . |
| 25 | In practice , however , the sovereignty of Parliament has increasingly become the sovereignty of the Commons , and the sovereignty of the Commons has increasingly become the sovereignty of the government and the majority party . |
| 26 | In practice , however , the sovereignty of Parliament has increasingly become the sovereignty of the Commons , and the sovereignty of the Commons has increasingly become the sovereignty of the government and the majority party . |
| 27 | Like other Ayurvedic preparations the drug is effective , which is not surprising since it contains almost double the quantity of aspirin used in normal aspirin tablets . |
| 28 | Tonight , two covers conveniently mark The Fatima Mansions ' musical parameters . |
| 29 | It has therefore become the focus for extensive study and research . |
| 30 | The point is important , because conservation has recently become the subject of fierce debate . |