Example sentences of "[noun sg] have become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experimentation with colour and support has become a major preoccupation for him . |
| 2 | The Platinum Award has become a regular feature of Edinburgh College of Art 's jewellery curriculum and for several years students from the section have made it to the finals — frequently winning at least one of the prizes . |
| 3 | Reasons are that the PC has become the conventional engineering tool ; most DSP applications programs run under ms-dos ; hardware interfacing of target DSP boards to the PC has become a standard practice , and the PC represents a low cost entry point into the field of DSP development . |
| 4 | Bung in a card , plug in to the LAN , and your humble workaday PC has become a sexy , hi-tech LANstation . |
| 5 | Used in this way , the computer has become a valuable background resource in British schools rather than an agent of revolutionary change . |
| 6 | Palestinian stubbornness has become a major stumbling block to the peace process as conceived by the United States . |
| 7 | For feminists , the acknowledgement of lesbian experience has become a central theoretical issue . |
| 8 | If Nigel de Gruchy of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Women Teachers ( and there 's a catchy title if ever there was one ) can not weave any more magic into his protest than ‘ The national curriculum has become a political football being booted up and down the right wing of the Conservative Party , ’ he does n't deserve to be taken seriously . |
| 9 | In only a half a century , television bought violence has become a central theme to the life of our young people . |
| 10 | Small traces may not hurt , but in households where modern hygiene has become a fanatical pursuit , the unhappy pet is at some risk . |
| 11 | What 's really moved me over the last three or four years , as AIDS has become a major threat in this country , and especially since spring 1985 with the rising public hysteria about it , is that it 's brought out tremendous reserves of strength in lesbians and gay men which show the importance of the achievements of the previous fifteen years . |
| 12 | In the long battle to combat the headbanging tendency of the far left , Labour has become a sterile shell : sanitised of socialism , anaesthetised against activism . |
| 13 | Welcome back : Over the last fifty years the car has become a vital part of most people 's lives . |
| 14 | As football has become a big-business enterprise in this country , and since the players , who once were seen as members of the same working-class community as the fans themselves , have become rich superstars , the close identity between fans and their team has been eroded . |
| 15 | Rising crime has become a key election issue . |
| 16 | But , in recent years , alcoholism has become a greater and nationally recognised social problem . |
| 17 | In recent years tunny fishing has become a popular sport around Madeira , and there are now many sport fishing boats available for hire . |
| 18 | In truth the rolling review has become a running review circumstances are changing with no respect for the committee cycle . |
| 19 | Tom then decided to join a club which admits women ( not all of them do ) and snooker has become a shared interest . |
| 20 | In modern times , American hard rock has become a clumsy , conventional and tacky beast . |
| 21 | Picking the select few to make the transition from a successful playing career in football to television reporting has become a minor entertainment in itself . |
| 22 | Now his pub entrance has become a mini Jobcentre . |
| 23 | Lately , that pleasure has become a dual-edged sword . |
| 24 | Over the last ten summers the Trabukos Beach Club has become a great favourite with club 18–30 . |
| 25 | By 1750 the buying and selling of government stock had become a straightforward routine . |
| 26 | Coalition had become a political habit that would be quite difficult to break and had sapped the party 's confidence in itself . |
| 27 | Thin streaks of cirrus lay parallel to the horizon , and between them the sun 's orb had become a well-defined sphere of a rich rose-crimson . |
| 28 | His tremor had worsened in the past weeks , a mild oscillation had become a violent jerk of the head . |
| 29 | The statement of light had become a depressing and , at times , boring mess of discontent . |
| 30 | They make major depredations on oyster beds and the recent activities of the ‘ Crown of Thorns ’ starfish ( Acanthaster ) in chewing up great chunks of the Great Barrier Reef have become a modern ecological object lesson ( and , incidentally , a source of funds for many marine biologists ) . |