Example sentences of "it [verb] become [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the context of ancient sites , it involves becoming aware of the special nature of the place and taking some action , however small , in recognition of this . |
| 2 | Its impact could probably have been even greater but it ceased to become available to students by 1980 and this was unfortunate when many much less meritorious texts have soldiered on ! |
| 3 | Britain has been governed by south-east England for the past 13 years , and it has become possible for London and the Home Counties to ignore some aspects of reality . |
| 4 | They have meant , for example , that housing policies have endorsed the view that each nuclear family should have its own household , and thus increasingly it has become possible for people to take that option . |
| 5 | In the twentieth century increasingly it has become possible for older people who have withdrawn from the labour market to support themselves from resources provided by the state rather than rely on their families ; the same has not been true of the youngest generation . |
| 6 | Erm it has become worse in a way that er we did , I did experience some sort of er , er racial intolerance er with the youth , but the middle-aged and the er m older people were very , very er tolerant I had to ask er when I could n't find my way , ask my way to certain places and er there was an that er the lady just walked by me er with me and she , she said I 'll have to walk with you you ca n't find it . |
| 7 | The NHS was supposed to treat all equally but now it has become similar to the difference between first class and tourist class air travel . |
| 8 | Although a native of southern Europe , it has become naturalized in the rest of Europe , and is now grown commercially . |
| 9 | It has become clearer to people what they are there for , and the importance of research and students . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As it has become familiar over the years , the constant discord and the rhythmic complexities have ceased to shock . |
| 12 | Charles took up watercolour painting nearly twenty years ago , and it has become one of his greatest pleasures . |
| 13 | As a result , it has become one of the great monuments of the world and a national symbol , like the Eiffel Tower , the Statue of Liberty and the Great Wall of China . |
| 14 | IT HAS BECOME one of the clichés of political debate that a concern for conservation is a new — and therefore probably transient — phenomenon and in addition that it is the hobby of an élite determined to fight against the inevitable overriding dictates of modern economic growth . |
| 15 | It has become one of the basic and seminal texts in the sociological study of this topic . |
| 16 | But it has become one of the big post-war economic success stories , with one of the world 's most open trading systems and a business environment not far behind Switzerland , Japan and west Germany . |
| 17 | In recent years , however , the world sugar prices have slumped and it has become one of the poorest areas in the Philippines . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It has become traditional in the West ( as well as in the former Soviet Union ) to move publication dates of new books on Chernobyl as close to the anniversary of the accident as possible . |
| 20 | It has become apparent on some of the issues , some of the comments that we made that was if I could call it the you 'll know what we 're talking about and I do n't if we are talking about the there was there was a point somewhere where talked about ing an increase or short of journey time along the ring road and this has been taken as I understand to be that we are setting out an increase of speed er traffic on the sections of road to a junction and that 's totally in force and it was either . |
| 21 | As for the vision of the animals , which is absent from Gregory 's version of events , it has become crucial to modern interpretations of Merovingian history as a tale of steady degeneration . |
| 22 | The British extreme right has also been particularly plagued by schism , exacerbated in part by political failure , after it has become impossible for the party to hide inherent divisions and tensions among its leaders . |
| 23 | It is timely to consider that , because since the beginning of this Session it has become compulsory for us to comply with European EIS legislation . |
| 24 | It has become commonplace in educational debates to assert that schools should reflect cultural differences , that the divisions within the school population are cultural ones , represented in different ethnic identities . |
| 25 | In recent years , it has become common for local political party caucuses to threaten to withdraw endorsement as candidates from Members who voice views unacceptable to them and there seems to be no reason in principle why this should not be treated by the House as a contempt the essence of which , in this respect , is to deny to a Member the freedom to exercise his power as a Member in the manner dictated by his own personal judgment . |
| 26 | Often they still are , but in recent years it has become common for other senior academics to act as heads of departments , sometimes in rotation . |
| 27 | It has become synonymous with sober science , if not pompous solemnity . |
| 28 | Under normal circumstances , the show would have given the audience the closeness with the warbirds it has become well-known for . |
| 29 | It has forgotten about its opponent ; it has become interested in the architecture . |
| 30 | It has become clear over the years that a level of formality is required for fair and impartial decision making , though it is equally clear that proper decision making does not always require ritual conduct or observance of the formal rules of evidence . |