Example sentences of "become the foundation " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nineteen-year luni-solar cycle became the foundation of the Jewish and Christian calendars , since it solved the problem of establishing the dates of new moons for religious purposes . |
| 2 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
| 3 | During the eighteenth century imported black-and-whites from Jutland became the foundation of the British Friesian , which continued to develop with the help of imports from the Netherlands at intervals and also imports from South Africa ( 1922 ) and Canada ( 1946 onwards ) . |
| 4 | They were just what their case needed , and for a few years these texts became the foundation of the Canterbury case . |
| 5 | Although it is worth stressing that Saussure 's work is open to a variety of interpretations , and although he himself did not use the concepts structure and structural , it was his idea of the arbitrary and differential nature of the linguistic sign , and therefore of the essential disjunction between language and reality , that became the foundation of the structuralist movement . |
| 6 | The sad reality is that nearly seventy years after Eglantine Jebb drafted the world 's first charter of children 's rights , the charter which became the foundation for the nineteen eighty nine U N convention . |
| 7 | At the time , Comdisco was busy taking advantage of IBM 's 3090-E systems , which would eventually become the foundation of today 's ESA architecture base . |
| 8 | The writers , while condemning the failings of the old nobility , notably their decadence and degradation , thought that their way of life could be revitalised and could become the foundation of a civil life that stemmed the rising tide of democracy and , as they feared , mob rule . |
| 9 | As is evident from the writing of Hegel , Marx and many later writers , technology itself , as the deliberate imposition of rational will upon the world , may become the foundation for the dominant ideologies of the industria-lized world ( e.g. Castoriadis 1984 : 299–59 ) . |
| 10 | The first circular , in March 1992 , sent jointly by the chief inspector of the SSI and the deputy head of the NHS , set out the eight implementation ‘ key tasks ’ , which have become the foundation stones for the changes . |
| 11 | Property changes in nature as private property is introduced , and this type of property becomes the foundation of capitalist exploitation . |
| 12 | Bureaucratic power thus becomes the foundation for a new ruling class . |
| 13 | The problem with alienistic attitudes is that if they are allowed to become the foundation of the system — the part of the system that everything else hinges upon — they are hard to shift . |