Example sentences of "they have become [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxfam aid workers say they 've become the new targets in the war in Somalia . |
| 2 | Today they had become a real sun-trap and it was a relief to swop the white , rocky desert for the subdued greens and browns of heather and grass which sweep across The Allotment up towards Simon Fell , its flanks scarred by the pale slash of Ingleborough 's eastern approach track . |
| 3 | He should be used to them by now because they had become a frequent occurrence during the past few months , particularly since Martin had been bringing Miss Crosbie to the house . |
| 4 | They were used to working in the dark ; they had become a secret society . |
| 5 | Most , however , had reached and even overshot their maturity ; they had become the elder statesmen of their breeds : exceptional , memorable examples of the extremes nature is capable of attaining . |
| 6 | They had become the first team ever to escape relegation from the top division not having won an away game . |
| 7 | They had become the largest property owners in North America and beyond that , the world . |
| 8 | Since she had grown up , they had become the best of buddies . |
| 9 | The former Romanian regions of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina had been annexed from Romania in June 1940 in the course of the Soviet advance against the pro-German troops of the Romanian government , and after 1947 they had become the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic ; in practice , the dispute was much older , dating back to Russia 's liberation of the region from Turkish rule in the early 19th century . |
| 10 | Spurr concedes that the influence of this group grew steadily between 1660 and 1688 , and that by the 1690s , when one of their number , John Tillotson , was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury , they had become the dominant Anglican theological school . |
| 11 | State family planning programmes were first introduced in 1968 and since the establishment of the National Population Commission in 1974 , they have become a major government priority . |
| 12 | Their calls are also very intricate , and the sounds of some of them , the young , sexually mature humpback males , are so haunting that they have become a best-selling record . |
| 13 | They have become a prime target for teenage joyriders who often set fire to stolen cars when they have finished with them . |
| 14 | Many Aborigines become disorientated as tribal societies crumble and black independence erodes further — they have become a marginalized minority . |
| 15 | Today , with powerful venoms added , they have become a formidable defence system against anything that enters the domain of the spiny fish . |
| 16 | And they have become a Trojan Horse to undermine some very basic and strongly-held principles of welfare and the welfare state . ’ |
| 17 | At times they have become an overt issue in industrial disputes . |
| 18 | And in doing so they have become the laughing stock of world sport over the great ball-changing saga in the Texaco Trophy one-day international . |
| 19 | In the next six years , thirty polytechnics were officially designated and since then they have become the major institutions of higher education within further education , catering for about two-thirds of the full-time , including sandwich , students in advanced further education . |
| 20 | Opinion polls represent only a small fraction of all the social research which is conducted in Britain , but they have become the public face of social research because they are so heavily reported : on average there is at least one poll story in each copy of every national or local newspaper in Britain . |
| 21 | Instead they have become the favourite fishing method of several highly industrialised fishing nations , and the use of oceanic drift-nets has grown rapidly . |