Example sentences of "[noun pl] it have become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In large organizations it has become common practice for audit committees , consisting of representatives of senior management , the internal audit department and external auditors , to meet . |
| 2 | In the past few months it has become clear to Her Majesty that her own children have spectacularly failed in their duty to the Crown . |
| 3 | But by the mid-1960s it had become evident that the post-war promise of unlimited prosperity and the reduction of class conflict was illusory . |
| 4 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 5 | Over the years it had become apparent that Constance considered Brian a person of little consequence and that , this being the case , she would not have minded if he had hired the Albert Hall to denounce her as a barbarian and certainly cared nothing for his kitchen sulks and drawing-room sarcasm . |
| 6 | Over the years it has become apparent that certain questions are asked more often than others . |
| 7 | In the last ten years it has become apparent that there is some stability and continuity in intellectual and cognitive functioning from infancy through early and later childhood . |
| 8 | Over the years it has become usual to rate small transformers for this sort of application in terms of rectified and smoothed d.c. outputs , but you ca n't always be sure of this and caution is advisable . |
| 9 | In recent years it has become common , when the whole of the stated authorised share capital is not intended to be issued initially , to designate the unissued shares as ‘ unclassified shares . ’ |
| 10 | Often they still are , but in recent years it has become common for other senior academics to act as heads of departments , sometimes in rotation . |
| 11 | This standard was developed with commercial accounts in mind and it confirms the view that depreciation is a matter of allocation , not of valuation ; though in recent years it has become acceptable to allocate revalued amounts . |
| 12 | In recent years it has become fashionable to say that Modi only suffered from poverty because of his drinking and drug-taking . |
| 13 | In the last few years it has become clear that many other churches are working in this way in every denomination . |
| 14 | Over a period of nine years it has become clear that the breeders referred to in the cup of that name do not include those operating on this side of the pond . |
| 15 | In recent years it has become clear that certain tumour derived cell lines can be associated with the production of gut peptides , and that some of these peptides are mitogenic to the same cells . |
| 16 | In the past few years it has become clear that the small intestine is also damaged by NSAIDs . |
| 17 | As a result of these changes it has become possible , among other things , to show more of the male and female body . |
| 18 | Under normal circumstances , the show would have given the audience the closeness with the warbirds it has become well-known for . |
| 19 | But with ‘ decultured ’ Aborigines it has become such a problem that it has been labelled the Black Death . |
| 20 | During the parliamentary debates it had become clear that the government would be able to count on external support from the Socialist Party of Labour on the far left , the Greater Romania Party on the far right and several other nationalist groups . |
| 21 | using such criteria it has become customary to distinguish at least four sources in the Pentateuch ( commonly designated J.E.D and P ) . |