Example sentences of "that it [vb -s] become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quarrelling among siblings is so common that it has become accepted as ‘ normal ’ . |
| 2 | Then when you stop dieting , the body , which has been acting in a kind of starvation mode , finds that it has become used to its new BMR and requires less calories to function . |
| 3 | ‘ Over the last two months the bridge has been repeatedly vandalised to the extent that it has become necessary to replace all the remaining timbers with expanded metal panels , ’ he said . |
| 4 | However , it is only within the last 10 years that it has become possible to process text electronically and thus improve the way non-routine information can be handled . |
| 5 | A colourless gas with a faint tang , it can produce narcosis and even ( after a lengthy exposure at a concentration of 5 per cent or more ) unconsciousness and death , but it is as a greenhouse gas emitted in the course of producing man-made energy that it has become central to our end-of-century concerns . |
| 6 | Ever since there has been Christmas there have been complaints that it has become over-commercialised . |
| 7 | This problem is so great that it has become fashionable to call for a new kind of organization to put in place of managerial hierarchy , an organization that will better meet the requirements of what is variously called the Information Age , the Services Age or the Post-lndustrial Age . |
| 8 | Subsequently , President Moi has consolidated his position in such a way that it has become difficult , if not impossible , for anyone to challenge his position by constitutional means . |
| 9 | It 's also clear that the teacher population has erm improved in the sense that it 's become much less mobile . |