Example sentences of "have become a important [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes the estimates are discordant , but a little practice will work wonders , and variable star work has become an important branch of modern amateur astronomy . |
| 2 | Since moving to Sussex , landscape has become an important vehicle for his ideas . |
| 3 | ‘ PL 480 was enacted as a means of exporting surplus U.S. commodities to dollar-short nations ’ and ‘ has become an important vehicle for developing commercial export markets , for meeting humanitarian food needs , and for spurring economic and agricultural growth in the developing world ’ ( p.20 ) . |
| 4 | Fourteen years later , the wheel has almost turned full circle as once again JM has become an important part of Johnnies ' offshore investments . |
| 5 | What will be the likely effects of such judgements on someone for whom practising meditation has become an important part of life , perhaps helping them to cope with difficulties and gain a sense of freedom and peace ? |
| 6 | Lending to small business owners has become an important profit centre for banks and the importance of establishing an efficient means of raising finance is also vital to the economy , because ‘ recent evidence shows that small firms have been the major creator of new jobs in the 1980s ’ . |
| 7 | This argument has become an important factor in recent debates about a new escalation of the arms race and major changes of nuclear strategy involved in the Star Wars proposal ( the Strategic Defence Initiative ) as well as proposals for new weapons systems based on new technologies . |
| 8 | The disposal of trade , effluents has become an important factor in running factories in many industries all over the world , and attention has to be given to methods of dealing with waste waters in order to select the most economical methods , both in running costs and in capital expenditure . |
| 9 | The more lurid and alarmist versions may perhaps be discounted , but they have fed the popular distrust of the use of artificial chemicals in agriculture and this , however much farmers may deplore the fact , has become an important factor in the politics of environmentalism . |
| 10 | It has become an important feature of business with developing countries and eastern European countries which do not have the financial or borrowing capability to make large investments in plant , machinery or construction projects . |
| 11 | The Finaghy branch has become an important link in the chain , as far as the Halifax Property Services operation in the south Belfast and Lisburn area is concerned . |
| 12 | Advocacy was an important objective for many projects and has become an important objective for every project . |
| 13 | Since the advent of third party service companies , however , price competitiveness has become an important issue . |
| 14 | Modern phenolic glued plywood is quite impermeable to water , in the sense that the veneers will not come apart when it is soaked , and it has become an important material in modern boatbuilding . |
| 15 | Over the past few years , however , live colouration has become an important criterion in taxonomy , and as synspilum differs markedly from melanurum in this respect , and has a different distribution , it is now once again generally considered a separate species , albeit probably very closely-related . |
| 16 | Since the reserviour was built it has become an important tourist and recreational centre but now none of the businesses can be sure they have a future . |
| 17 | Nuclear energy has become an important tool for plant breeders and Russian horticultural researchers have been putting it to good use in their iris-breeding programmes . |
| 18 | It has become an important aspect of the response by both government and individual older workers to the current continuing economic recession in the labour market . |
| 19 | Segal describes the ‘ powerful and effective ’ voices of black feminism , and argues that ‘ paying more attention to the needs of Black women on a practical and descriptive level , constantly being vigilant about old assumptions that ‘ we ’ women are white , has become an important aspect of feminism in the eighties ' . |
| 20 | As we have seen , representation other than by lawyers has become an important form of representation before tribunals . |
| 21 | Money sent home has become an important source of income for the country — especially from those who live in the United States and send remittances to their families in dollars . |
| 22 | But the Masters may have become an important link between monarch and subject . |
| 23 | In the past three years , as his star had risen , Sting had become an important asset in Virgin 's publishing catalogue . |
| 24 | It felt as though anti-racism had become an important issue over a period of just one year . |
| 25 | By 1848 the Count had become an important figure in the administration of Hungary but the prospects of civil war and revolution led to his nervous collapse and he spent the next decade in an asylum . |
| 26 | Novgorod ( new town ) was , despite its name , an old settlement which , by the tenth century , had become an important trade centre . |