Example sentences of "has become a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those are the words of Rose Laird , a pioneer in skincare who has become a legend in the beauty industry . |
| 2 | Rescheduling of such debts has become a necessity for the private banks , and a practice which has emerged is that new agreements have been made conditional on such countries accepting the stringent programmes of the IMF which are intended to promote effective adjustment of a country 's balance of payments and ensure that the use of Fund resources is temporary . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , the shame is that for some health service insiders it has become a way of life . |
| 5 | It has become a way of life for you . |
| 6 | ‘ It has become a way of life for me here — but it must be unsettling to the players . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 1985 : The BPI admit that home-taping has become a way of life and produces a booklet that estimates some 466 million hours of music were taped in the home during 1983 alone . |
| 9 | In most of the prisons , corruption has become a way of life and inmates believe that without taking recourse to corrupt practices they can not cope with the culture that prevails . |
| 10 | I do n't know which is most unlikely , but after studying in Louisiana , and spending a ghastly summer and a magical Christmas in New York , I have been savagely bitten by the travel bug , while writing the novel has become a way of life . ’ |
| 11 | Barter has become a way of life . |
| 12 | These cases are an indication of the liberal attitude currently being taken by the courts , which have obviously recognised that the old saying that a security on a dwelling is ‘ as safe as houses ’ has become a bit of a mockery . |
| 13 | The series has become a bit of a cult in the UK , with Victor becoming much better known than the actor who plays him , Richard Wilson . |
| 14 | Mind you he has become a bit of an opinionated arsehole recently … more like Jonathan King , or Nina Myskow — y'know being deliberately contentious to get people to write in . |
| 15 | As long as the controls are there to make sure they 're not wandering around all over the place which one hears about Group 4 and their reputation for letting people go which has become a bit of a joke . |
| 16 | For the second , public ownership has become a question to be settled on the merits of the particular case . |
| 17 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |
| 18 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |
| 19 | Now it has become a scene of misery and discontent . |
| 20 | The aristocratic house has become a mausoleum of sad secrets . |
| 21 | More commonly , the minister under attack is shielded by collective responsibility and the decision as to whether he or she goes or stays is one for the Prime Minister , based on the criteria of the extent to which he or she has become a liability to the government . |
| 22 | By harvest time the grain has become a mass of spores , which spread as a cloud of dust . |
| 23 | So Herbert Chapman established a pattern in relations between directors and manager which has become a feature of many of the major clubs , where the only veto on the manager 's power is the sack if he fails to bring results . |
| 24 | The city 's persistent smog problem , known locally as nefos , or cloud , has become a feature of Athenian life . |
| 25 | Parkin criticized her opponents as " anarchists " , and said that " the Green Party has become a handicap for Green politics " . |
| 26 | The study concludes that ‘ She has become a mistress of the pre-planned , carefully packaged appearance . ’ . |
| 27 | DARLINGTON has become a blackspot for cycling accidents according to road safety officials . |
| 28 | It is said that Britain has become a country of High Mass Consumption . |
| 29 | In Christianity , it has become a problem for many believers that the masculinity of the doctrine is stressed and the feminine aspects marginalized . |
| 30 | In so far as bureaucratic power has become a problem for modern democracy , it has been a result of the inadequacies of political control as much as the internal features of bureaucracies themselves . |