Example sentences of "[noun sg] that have become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was clearly some basis here for irredentist disputes of a kind that had become familiar in interwar Europe . |
| 2 | It holds that groups defined as ‘ nations ’ have the right to , and therefore ought to , form territorial states of the kind that have become standard since the French Revolution . |
| 3 | A fierce solidarity was forged of a kind that has become archaic in the west . |
| 4 | Thurmaston , just to the north of Leicester , was another village that had become dependent upon framework knitting by the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | As modernity has progressed in the last one hundred and fifty years , it is not only the world of work that has become secularised , but also government . |
| 6 | An older discovery that has become significant is the taxon ‘ Proconsul ( Xenopithecus ) hamiltoni ’ described for a maxilla fragment from Lothidok Hill in northern Kenya , because the Eragaleit beds from which this fossil came ( together with some additional undescribed specimens ) have recently been dated at between 24.3 and 27.5Myr . |
| 7 | First the managers will be encouraged to tackle an issue that has become problematical in a bureau by asking open questions of themselves and the bureau staff . |
| 8 | Very frequently he was away from home , sampling the forms of service offered by the various high-church ecclesiastics in the area , driving determinedly over the countryside in a little red Mini that had become used to the eccentricities of his driving technique . |
| 9 | Although ‘ laicisation ’ is a process that has become universal in the Western world , it is in North America where it is at its most advanced . |
| 10 | There must be nothing worse than to find , after a couple of decades of academic graft , that there is a whole world of ideas out there of incomparable pedigree that has become inaccessible . |
| 11 | It was the sound of more than a hundred working men and it rose above the sounds of the countryside that had become familiar to Seb 's ears . |
| 12 | Considering his band had clocked up four months on a promotional treadmill that had become steeper and faster the more ‘ Nevermind ’ sold , he looked in pretty good shape . |
| 13 | In this chapter we will present an analysis of the colliding wave problem using a method that has become familiar in the study of stationary axisymmetric space-times . |
| 14 | But this would be a very modern reading of Darwin , a reading that extracts a message that has become popular only in the age of environmental awareness . |
| 15 | One of its most powerful adversaries is Fredric Jameson who suggests postmodernism is ‘ an alarming and pathological symptom of a society that has become incapable of dealing with time and history ’ ( in Foster 1983 : 117 ) . |
| 16 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 17 | However , in Coca-Cola Co. of Canada Ltd. v Pepsi-Cola Co. of Canada Ltd. ( 1942 ) , it was held that PEPSI-COLA was not too close to COCA-COLA because the suffix COLA was a word that had become common and descriptive of a type of beverage ; that is , a generic word . |
| 18 | I refer , of course , to manners of thought that have become formalised , certain convolutions , the consistent combination of apprehensions with little twistles of kinaesthetic intimation , d'ye follow me ? ’ |
| 19 | He had a splinter in his nail that had become inflamed . ’ |
| 20 | A similar example of a type of assimilation that has become fixed is the progressive assimilation of voice with the suffixes and ; when a verb carries a third person singular ‘ -s ’ suffix , or a noun carries an ‘ -s ’ plural suffix or an' — ‘ s ’ possessive suffix , that suffix will be pronounced as if the preceding consonant is fortis ( ‘ voiceless ’ ) and as if the preceding consonant is lenis ( ‘ voiced ’ ) , thus : |
| 21 | Right in the heart of a city that has become accustomed to being regarded as an eyesore . |
| 22 | Hollywood confidently made stylish films and presented them to an audience that had become larger than ever . |
| 23 | Some phonologists maintain that a syllabic consonant is really a case of a vowel and a consonant that have become combined . |
| 24 | There is little doubt that to have become obese in the first instance we have simply eaten too much of the wrong sorts of foods . |
| 25 | The final scene , with its tear-jerking hospital-bed supplications for forgiveness , is neither more nor less than the ‘ I love you ’ , ‘ I love you too Momma ’ curtain-line that has become mandatory in a thousand soap operas . |
| 26 | Jargon is technical language that has become vernacular and , similarly , it is not intrinsically bad ; if technical language were not vernacular to those who need to use it , then it would actually serve very little purpose . |