Example sentences of "[noun sg] have become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are lines round my eyes and my hair has become a hag 's rope . |
| 2 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Software Products division has become a charter member of a new Tools Interface Standards committee , an industry group that aims to define specifications that enable vendors to enhance the interoperability and portability of 32-bit development tools and to improve the economics of developing 32-bit applications ; others include Borland International Inc , Intel Corp , Lotus Development Corp , Metaware Inc , Microsoft Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc and Watcom Ltd , which will work to define a set of tool interface specifications for 32-bit operating systems and provide an open forum . |
| 3 | As she rightly points out , the effectiveness of metronidazole in rosacea was first reported in Britain and topical metronidazole has become a market leader in the United States . |
| 4 | The origin of the Swastika has become a source of speculation for western researchers throughout time . |
| 5 | The parliament has become a garrison . |
| 6 | Like the video recorder and the pocket calculator , the PC has become a commodity item . |
| 7 | Strict liability has become a basis on which a victim can sue a producer . |
| 8 | An undercover detective said : ‘ Stalking has become a problem that we must take seriously . ’ |
| 9 | Money has become a thing of no value : usury , once a sin , is now the faith of nations . |
| 10 | Third … the budget has become a vehicle for reducing inequalities … |
| 11 | She was buried at Cholsey where her grave has become a shrine for fans from all over the world . |
| 12 | Sometimes this obstinacy was the refuge of the poor man who can not afford change and to whom stagnation has become a habit of mind necessary for survival ; at other times it represented a sound rejection of improper techniques culled by ‘ philosophical ’ amateurs from the journals of French and English agricultural societies . |
| 13 | Football has become a substitute for patriotism amongst the disaffected , half-educated white working-class youth of a nation which only a generation ago was respected and feared throughout the world . |
| 14 | The Kandy perehera has become a highlight of religious life throughout the island . |
| 15 | Throughout the 1980s the North-East has become a magnet for new investment . |
| 16 | I 'm thinking really of the way misogyny has become a sort of public spectacle |
| 17 | The seal has become a medusa , a jellyfish . |
| 18 | None of what he found now seems novel but that is , perhaps , because the study has become a classic . |
| 19 | Subsequently , after the Second World War , that practice has become a token at Memorial Services on the nearest Sunday to the eleventh of November each year . |
| 20 | The two-yearly conference of the International Association for Mass Communication Research has become a focus for critical communication researchers from around the world , according to Pradip Thomas , Coordinator of WACC 's Asian Programme . |
| 21 | Her bedroom had become a nest . |
| 22 | Jazz had become a way of life for her . |
| 23 | A bakery had become a betting shop and a draper 's had turned into the offices of a building society . |
| 24 | The thumb prick had become a finger prick over the years and was the only bit which mildly hurt . |
| 25 | The college had become a body concerned with the formulation and execution of foreign policy and nothing else . |
| 26 | The former Archbishop of Prague , Cardinal Frantisek Tomasek , who under Communist rule had become a symbol of the struggle for religious freedom , died on Aug. 4 aged 93 , of heart failure complicated by pneumonia . |
| 27 | The reformers , until 1964 mainly outside the House , argued that since the public wished to vote governments in or out of power and since every serious vote had become an issue of confidence , it was no longer possible to restore freer voting in order to improve the independence and power of the House . |
| 28 | Becoming leaner and fitter has become a choice of which limb to amputate next , ’ Mark Corner , Newcastle 's Labour chairman of education said . |
| 29 | First there is the fact that when the work has become a commodity , produced to be sold at a profit , the internal calculations of any such market production lead directly to new forms of cultural control and especially cultural selection . |
| 30 | The Liverpool waterfront has become a magnet for tourists from near and far . |