Example sentences of "it [verb] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may seem a paradox and different from the usual pattern of learning , therefore it needs to become a habit . |
| 2 | He is also the man who made the male pony-tail so heterosexually de rigueur that it has become a badge of masculinity on the toughest football terraces . |
| 3 | It has become a commonplace of political and economic discourse to talk about a North-South divide . |
| 4 | The novelty of such a situation will be more apparent if we compare with it what can be called the classical situation of the ancient world between 600 and 300 B.C. It has become a commonplace , after Karl Jaspers ' Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte — the first original book on history to appear in post-war Germany in 1949 — to speak of the Achsenzeit , of the axial age , which included the China of Confucius and Lao-Tse , the India of Buddha , the Iran of Zoroaster , the Palestine of the Prophets and the Greece of the philosophers , the tragedians and the historians . |
| 5 | It has become a tradition not to have Blacks . ’ |
| 6 | Now it has become a scene of misery and discontent . |
| 7 | It has become a bit tiresome of late . |
| 8 | ‘ Most people already think it has become a farce . ’ |
| 9 | From being a seller of bills , it has become a buyer . |
| 10 | Sounds as if IBM Corp has thrown in the towel and acknowledged that it will never make it with a word processor of its own : it has become a member of Wordperfect Corp 's Customer Advantage Programme , a fancy name for a company-wide licence for IBM to distribute and use Wordperfect products throughout the company with ‘ significant savings ’ and simplified licence administration . |
| 11 | It has become a hive of activity . |
| 12 | It has become a centre of business and commerce , with an important place in banking and insurance . |
| 13 | There can be no doubt that in the 112 years it has been standing on the embankment it has become a part of the London scene . |
| 14 | NCR is the latest bastion to fall to Novell : it has become a part of Novell 's Alliance Program to collaborate on early development of Novell products . |
| 15 | It has become a part of life . ’ |
| 16 | Furthermore , it is probable that identification with the aggressor still exists today in young children or those with regressed or fixated ego-development for this very reason : namely , that it has become a part of the genetically inherited behavioural repertoire of our species . |
| 17 | It has become a part of me . |
| 18 | Recently it has become a port for a cross-Channel ferry service |
| 19 | can I say that as long as the integrity of each religion is preserved , then education is a very sound er erm is very sound in prospect , but sadly it has become a melting pot and as my Noble Friends like to refer to it a mish-mash and I do n't think it does anything more than serve to confuse children if it 's done badly . |
| 20 | It has become a cliche to say that Prague is the most beautiful city in Europe , but that fact still struck me as a stunning truth on this , my first visit there . |
| 21 | It has become a cliche that Mexico 's government has more academically competent economists and technocrats working for it than practically any country . |
| 22 | In Christianity , it has become a problem for many believers that the masculinity of the doctrine is stressed and the feminine aspects marginalized . |
| 23 | It is a cliche to say that it has become a way of life , and that the stone-throwing is only the public , propaganda face of a whole political , social , economic and psychological transformation — the Palestinians ' own perestroika — which both sustains the Intifada and lays the groundwork for the eventual transition to statehood . |
| 24 | However , the shame is that for some health service insiders it has become a way of life . |
| 25 | It has become a way of life for you . |
| 26 | ‘ It has become a way of life for me here — but it must be unsettling to the players . |
| 27 | ‘ I have been leading scorer at Boro for five out of the last seven seasons — but it has become a way of life to be talked about as the player who is leaving or out of the team . |
| 28 | It has become a specialist in adding value to chemicals and selling them on to the major companies . |
| 29 | The reason that it has received so much attention is not primarily that it is of practical importance ( although it has applications , e.g. Sections 26.2 , 26.5 , 26.6 ) , but rather that it has become a context for the development of ideas about the consequences of instability and evolution towards turbulent motion . |
| 30 | And , third , there has been an irreversible ‘ rationalization ’ of agriculture : instead of farming being a ‘ way of life ’ as described by Newby ( 1980 ) , it has become a business where farms are organized in terms of profitability . |