Example sentences of "it [verb] become the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In legal and semi-legal texts , it has become the norm to use lexical repetition even in instances where no ambiguity might result from using pronominal reference . |
| 2 | Although it probably began as a lung , over the course of evolution it has become the swimbladder , an ingenious device with which the fish maintains itself as a hydrostat in permanent equilibrium . |
| 3 | It has become the centre of a bitter controversy : Catholic conservative accusations of treason to the national spirit and of religious heterodoxy have obscured the implications of luces ( Enlightenment ) , and the intentions of its advocates within the government service . |
| 4 | It has become the drug of choice for the American armed forces and for the World Health Organization , and has survived against the threat of resistant strains for a surprisingly long time . |
| 5 | Wedgwood first produced fine bone china in the early years of the 19th century and since the turn of the 20th century it has become the company 's major product . |
| 6 | We are told that their slogan is the power to choose and the right to own ; however , it has become the power to take and the right to steal . |
| 7 | ‘ It has become the number one crime in Europe . ’ |
| 8 | It has become the world 's most popular passenger car diesel since it was introduced just over 10 years ago . |
| 9 | In recent years it has become the practice in leases granted for more than five years or so to contain some machinery for enabling the rent to be reviewed , either continuously or at periodic intervals . |
| 10 | It has become the fashion to make a few comments about the Sessional Orders , which is very useful . |
| 11 | Instead of the passport opening frontiers to the traveller without let or hindrance , it has become the means of international surveillance . |
| 12 | It has become the means for distinguishing between leases and licences , the latter being the means by which lawyers sought to find a way around statutory controls regarding the levels of rent and security for the tenant . |
| 13 | Today it has become the focus of work on machine intelligence , particularly within connectionism . |
| 14 | It has become the focus of concern after scientific studies suggested that depletion of the ozone layer was resulting in a 12 per cent reduction in numbers of phytoplankton — the organism at the bottom of the marine food chain , on which whales depend . |
| 15 | The idea of ‘ care ’ has been carefully nurtured until it has become the hallmark of solid acceptability , the key to political creditworthiness , and the disability industry 's SDI designed to shield their programmes of social control from criticism . |
| 16 | It starts becoming the norm . |
| 17 | By 1884 it had become the Art Workers ' Guild , the hub of the Arts and Crafts Movement , which aimed to bring back all the fine and craft arts and to follow the writings of Ruskin and William Morris . |
| 18 | Its origins were Queen Anne but it had been remodelled several times , most radically at the turn of the century when it had become the holiday home of a London architect . |
| 19 | By 1914 , it had become the headquarters of the Village Institute stopped generating electricity and was , in the 1930s , largely destroyed by fire . |
| 20 | By that time , many more men had arrived , swirling up through the yard to be sucked into the hall , as if it had become the quiet , humming centre of some whirlpool of power . |
| 21 | By the summer it had become the Los Angeles Free Press . |
| 22 | As its great historian pointed out , " French became the language of states because it had become the language of courts and aristocracies " . |
| 23 | It had become the truth . |
| 24 | Certainly , there were examples of transparent deception : for example , when , as proof of their transcendental patriotism , the ICP dissolved itself and announced it had become the Association for Marxist Studies . |
| 25 | By the following century , it had become the nucleus of a Benedictine abbey which grew to become one of the leading centres of learning in central Europe . |
| 26 | But by the 430s it had become the religion of most educated Roman town-dwellers . |
| 27 | They were also aware of an even deeper change in the texture of Christianity : it had become the religion of a warrior nobility whose values and culture it had necessarily to absorb in the process of Christianizing them . |
| 28 | Now it threatens to become the cuckoo in the nest of European Fusion research . |
| 29 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |