Example sentences of "[vb -s] become [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps , not surprisingly , in a short space of time life skills training has become detached from the wider objectives associated with liberal humanist education : the point being that teaching young people about society has been replaced by criteria designed to alter their relationship with it .
2 In the case of many other states parties , the Convention has become incorporated into the domestic law , thus discharging a primary rather than a secondary function ( i.e. coming into operation only in the event of a failure of domestic remedies ) .
3 ‘ Women 's Lib ’ has matured and has become incorporated into the language and into the superficial behaviour of most self-respecting liberal socialists .
4 Volcanic bombs can be composed of either lava , or of preexisting rock which has become incorporated into the magma in the neck of a volcano .
5 Within France , the issue has become absorbed into the debate over the forthcoming referendum on the Maastricht treaty , with opponents claiming that an EC single market would result in France becoming the " dustbin of Europe " .
6 Nuclear power , once thought to be a way to buy time while fixing all of the above problems , has become discredited following the Chernobyl disaster .
7 Over the years that The Women Artists Slide Library has been collecting and documenting the work of women artists it has become sensitised to the many issues around health and disability .
8 What really happened has become over-printed by the fiction .
9 ‘ Our philosophy has become emasculated by the anxiety to propitiate deterministic sciences .
10 But more than that , John has become rated as the man for the big occasion .
11 But more than that , John has become rated as the man for the big occasion .
12 The former take little account of the latter although much of the HMI 's thinking has become known over the same period i.e. the late 1970s and early 1980s .
13 Paradoxically , in most years the outcome of the Defence budgetary process is under-rather than overspending , and this is not because the accounting officers fear the wrath of Parliament , but because of what has become known as the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ , illustrated in figure 3 .
14 The school is a snapshot of the American West , the great swath of the Plains between the Missouri River and the Rockies that makes up one fifth of continental America but which in the last generation has become known as the Empty Quarter , or the Dying Heart of the US .
15 Spasticity , which comes from the word ‘ spasm ’ , has become known as the common term for the whole range of cerebral palsy handicaps but the three forms are significantly different .
16 This movement has become known as the Renaissance in the English-speaking world , the Rinascimento in Italy .
17 Several parish and community councils have given themselves the status of a town council , whereupon the chairman of the parish council has become known as the town mayor .
18 The monitoring network has become known as the radioactive incident monitoring network ( RIMNET ) and has , as its prime responsibility , the detection of abnormal increases in radiation levels within the UK of the kind that might arise from an overseas nuclear accident .
19 It turned out that a mathematically-respectable ‘ electroweak ’ theory required three exchange particles for the weak force : two electrically charged particles , W+ and W- , and a third neutral partner which has become known as the Zo .
20 The results of these and other experiments fit in well with the predictions of what has become known as the standard electroweak model .
21 He was able to introduce what has become known as the Herbert Act to extend the grounds for divorce to include ( in addition to adultery ) desertion , cruelty and incurable insanity .
22 Well served by local ferryboats , the capital Ely has become known as the Hong Kong of the West .
23 Most of the main animal groups appeared quite suddenly 600 million years ago in what has become known as the ‘ Cambrian explosion ’ .
24 It is a system which has become known as the ‘ Caring Hearing System ’ because people are listened to , and problems handled in a sympathetic way .
25 It is not surprising that this has become known as the ‘ Whig ’ Bible .
26 This gives rise to the danger of what has become known as the two-thirds , one-third society in which the majority obtains secure well-paid full-time ‘ core ’ jobs and the minority become ‘ marginalised ’ , obtaining less well-paid , part-time , temporary , ‘ peripheral ’ jobs and hovering on the verge of poverty .
27 The remaining Elves of Nagarythe , which has become known as the Shadowlands , take up a wandering , nomadic life shunning the trappings of civilisation .
28 Any description of the service sector has to take into account the legacy of what has become known as the Fisher/Clark thesis or the ‘ three-sector , model of economic growth .
29 The other is contained in what has become known as the ‘ autumn statement ’ .
30 The minimum period which a prisoner can be expected to serve in order to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence has become known as the tariff period .
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