Example sentences of "have become [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has no practical purpose whatsoever but has become rather a measure of ability — if you can duck gybe it is an indication that you must be quite good . |
| 2 | President Reagan is probably right in thinking that private companies could introduce innovations to what has become rather a moribund operation . |
| 3 | There can be no doubt that the PhD , no longer seen as a sign of unusually high scholarly achievement , has become simply a certificate of professional competence , and that intellectual standards have declined accordingly . |
| 4 | The demand for central direction , then , partly as we have seen , a demand that the Local Education Authorities should be kept in their place , has become also a demand for a particular style of rigorous , and rigorously examined , curriculum . |
| 5 | Surprisingly , the programmers managed to cram all the action into a single load ; this has become quite a rarity these days , particularly where tie-ins are concerned . |
| 6 | Over the years the exchange of engines between the 15″ gauge railways in England has become quite a feature of the little railway scene . |
| 7 | Pam Dixon , a teacher at Alsop High , said Tommy has become quite a celebrity with his school pals . |
| 8 | Basically I got a fax from him in LA yesterday , and apparently his daughter is a great fan of yours and Basil 's … and he too has become quite a fan . |
| 9 | In America today modernity as a term synonymous with the problems of life in the advanced societies has become almost a cliche . |
| 10 | The government laid down extensive amendments at both the Committee and Third Reading stages of the Bill , such that one MP considered that there had been a ‘ complete rewriting of the whole Bill ’ and another that it ‘ has become virtually a Government Bill ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The Satanic Verses has the good fortune of having become just a novel again , and I 'm very happy for it . |
| 12 | When people of the late 1970s and 1980s remembered those heady times it was the ludicrous lack of realism that they recalled rather than the idealism — ‘ hippie ’ had become simply a term of abuse . |
| 13 | Being a replacement had become almost a way of life . |
| 14 | His voice had become almost a screech of anger and frustration . |
| 15 | Alfred had become almost a recluse , a man haunted by his dream . |
| 16 | When the true meaning of the custom had been forgotten , and the maypole had become merely a part of the holiday festivities , people saw no reason for felling a new tree every year and began to leave one erected permanently , merely decking it with flowers and fresh greenery on Mayday . |
| 17 | One other respect in which Pascal is a modem thinker is in his view , which he shared with the Jansenists , that language had proven too strong for mystery , so that theology had become merely a branch of rhetoric . |
| 18 | It had become purely a temple art . |
| 19 | The New Forest had become virtually a fortress of barbed wire and road blocks . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she said , when the shuddering had become only a shiver . |
| 21 | Roberts ' prints have become almost a cliché , corrupted by overuse , representative of both a cause and a dream . |