Example sentences of "have become so " in BNC.
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| 1 | These ways have become so much a part of the fabric of dance that they are used almost unknowingly by teachers and dancers . |
| 2 | China 's leaders have become so fearful of revolt that Tiananmen is guarded round the clock by uniformed soldiers with guns while the rest of Peking remains firmly under martial law . |
| 3 | If salmon is still the rich man 's herring , one can no longer think of herrings as the poor man 's salmon for they have become so expensive that one buys them by the troy ounce . |
| 4 | His criticisms have become so predictable and strongly worded that they are counter-productive . |
| 5 | The problems of equipment-cost inflation have become so crucial in Defence planning that it is worth recalling briefly how the British weapon procurement system works . |
| 6 | But Exodus 1.8 read , ‘ Now there arose a new king over Egypt , who did not know Joseph , ’ and then began the story of Egyptian brutality and oppression to which we have already referred , and after that we are back with the tales of the Israelites ' stubborn complaining in the wilderness with which we have become so familiar . |
| 7 | Indeed , hierarchical ways of organizing Church reality have become so normative that we do not ordinarily stop to examine them . |
| 8 | At lunch at the commissary of 20th Century Fox , Spyros P. Skouras ( he who had insisted that his movie makers clear themselves of Communist taint ) asked in his speech where else in the world but in America could a poor Greek boy have become so important a person as president of 20th Century Fox ? |
| 9 | Karajan 's response to Honegger 's Symphonie liturgique and its near contemporary , Strauss 's Metamorphosen , of which he made the first recording in 1947 , provides specifically musical evidence of Karajan 's priorities and allegiances that I have yet to see considered by those who have become so concerned to analyse and recycle often erroneous information about his alleged political sympathies before and during the Second World War . |
| 10 | There are a number of different groupings , which may be included under the rubric of social movement : neighbourhood councils , which include the gamut of barrio and community organisations aimed at solving problems of urban facilities and also those that are concerned with living standards , particularly in the form of rising prices of food , transport and other necessities ; women 's movements , which have become particularly prominant in Grenada and Nicaragua , but which also exist in more localised forms in other countries ; human rights groups , which have become so well-known on a national scale in Argentina , but are also active at neighbourhood level as for example in São Paulo , where one was formed in 1978 in the barrio of São Miguel after one of the inhabitants was victimised by police brutality ( Singer 1982 ) ; CEBs , as described in Chapter 4 , are spreading now throughout the continent ; regional movements have emerged in countries where the interests of one region have been subordinated to those of other areas as in Peru ; and political protest groups , which in the extreme become guerrilla groups , such as Sendero Luminoso in Peru . |
| 11 | In some policies the two problems are seen to be combined where the systems of farming collectively called shifting cultivation have reached a point where their carrying capacity has been exceeded , and fallow periods have become so short that degradation and erosion have set in ( Allan 1967 ) . |
| 12 | It is not surprising that some viruses have taken advantage of the sexual act as a vehicle for their transmission , but , while bacteria such as gonococci , treponemes , and the organisms responsible for the tropical sexually transmitted diseases have become so specialized that non-venereal transmission is extremely rare , the sexually transmitted virus infections , with the exception of genital warts , are frequently transmitted in other ways as well . |
| 13 | Often , too , husband and wife have become so caught up in their work , their children or their respective outside interests that they devote less time to each other . |
| 14 | ‘ You are like the wild cat , you are not in it , ’ meaning that present-day-wild cats have become so inter-bred with domestic cats , they are no longer pure : like Scots who have lost their native tongue . |
| 15 | There are probably many situations where you as a manager have become so used to a task or a situation that it is no longer easy to bring to it a vigorous or fresh approach . |
| 16 | However , the languages of science and engineering have become so specialised that communication across the disciplines is difficult to achieve , but there seems to be no reason in principle why this must be so as the concepts are universal . |
| 17 | SCIENTISTS have become so familiar with the fine structure of living cells , that their manipulation and culture now appear commonplace . |
| 18 | At first any new way of being is bound to feel strange , even unnatural , because we have become so used to moving in habitual ways . |
| 19 | At first , new ways of performing these actions will feel very strange because we have become so used to moving in our own particular way . |
| 20 | We have become so used to thinking of Günter Wand as a conductor who specialises exclusively in the late 18th and 19th Century symphonic repertoire that it comes as something of a shock to find him performing a wide variety of works of more contemporary lineage . |
| 21 | Superfecundation is most likely to occur in town and city cats , where the individual territories have become so reduced in size that the odour of a sexually active female can easily be detected by a whole collection of different males . |
| 22 | The time may well arrive — indeed , that process is now under way — when the notion of the supremacy of the institutions of the Community and the primacy of Community law have become so firmly established that they are widely acknowledged to be a feature of the United Kingdom 's constitutional landscape . |
| 23 | There appears to be little evidence that as a society we have become so rich that a substantial number of people are at this point . |
| 24 | The Kleinwort analysts believe that the group 's accelerating cash generation will attract increased market attention now that all companies ' earnings have become so volatile under FRS 3 reporting . |
| 25 | These characters have become so much a part of our own childhood that we almost forget their origin . |
| 26 | Several beaches have become so polluted that they are now closed . |
| 27 | Night Goblins have become so accustomed to the dark that when they come out into the open they prefer to move around at night and hide away during the day . |
| 28 | Another , upon which it depends and which usually arises early in a child 's educational career , before the extrinsic rewards have become so tangible and external , is his or her teacher 's public comparison of one student with another . |
| 29 | We have become so obsessed with dowries and transfer payments that we are unable to look comprehensively at the needs of users |
| 30 | In the UK we have become so obsessed with dowries and transfer payments that we are unable to look comprehensively at the needs of users , let alone ask their views , and community care encourages this approach to service delivery . |