Example sentences of "had become a matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternative accommodation in the metropolitan area for a new breed of large steamships had become a matter of some urgency . |
| 2 | By the early 1980s it had become a matter of faith . |
| 3 | By the 1980s this practice — twin-tracking' , as it became called — had become a matter of political controversy . |
| 4 | Everything had become a matter of commerce , negotiation and the studied application of scientific theory . |
| 5 | The check had become a matter of necessity rather than of choice . |
| 6 | Despite significant advances in family planning , the report said , birth control had become a matter of global survival . |
| 7 | Guardian 27 September China to tackle acid rain The Chinese government has announced that controlling the country 's growing acid-rain pollution had become a matter of " extreme urgency " . |
| 8 | Is Horace , at the close of a poem published only a few years before the end of his own life , talking at and through " Torquatus " , talking to Rome , to the culture whose imperial destiny was beginning to seem less and less convincing and whose traditional virtues had become a matter of pious rhetoric ? |