Example sentences of "[pers pn] has become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study concludes that ‘ She has become a mistress of the pre-planned , carefully packaged appearance . ’ . |
| 2 | TELEVISION presenter Jayne Irving tells me she has become a forces ' pin-up in Bosnia . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She is now divorced and after periods of University Lecturing at Bristol and Manchester she has become a teacher at Withington Girls ' School . |
| 5 | Link correspondent has reported many employees ' weddings in the past , but now she has become a bride herself . |
| 6 | She has become a hospital ‘ link worker ’ , interpreting for members of London 's Greek community who do n't speak English . |
| 7 | She has become a parody of herself , doomed to spend the rest of her life acting out her own mythical qualities . |
| 8 | In order to generate interest in his players and their careers , he has become a press and publicity machine . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The ANC has worthy successors to him , but he has become a symbol of the anti-apartheid struggle . |
| 11 | But by the end of the poem , he has become a character of extra-terrestrial proportions , a romantic sufferer carrying on his shoulders the sins of society . |
| 12 | If he has become a hero to the Muslim masses outside , and probably to a lot of Third World non-Muslims , it is not on his merits , but because the United States , with gratuitous and superfluous aid from Britain , has cast him for the part . |
| 13 | He has become a scapegoat and an excuse , so that romantic writers can maintain their vision of a lost golden age . |
| 14 | He has become a target for abuse — and powerful sponsors who back the team with around £20-£25million a year want a say in what has become the greatest sports outcry of all time . |
| 15 | Now he has become a pain in the neck to the establishment . |
| 16 | Following Gazza 's first league goal for Lazio in the derby match against Roma , and his unforgettable second against Pescara on December 6 , he has become a sensation in Italy . |
| 17 | He is also the man who made the male pony-tail so heterosexually de rigueur that it has become a badge of masculinity on the toughest football terraces . |
| 18 | It has become a commonplace of political and economic discourse to talk about a North-South divide . |
| 19 | The novelty of such a situation will be more apparent if we compare with it what can be called the classical situation of the ancient world between 600 and 300 B.C. It has become a commonplace , after Karl Jaspers ' Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte — the first original book on history to appear in post-war Germany in 1949 — to speak of the Achsenzeit , of the axial age , which included the China of Confucius and Lao-Tse , the India of Buddha , the Iran of Zoroaster , the Palestine of the Prophets and the Greece of the philosophers , the tragedians and the historians . |
| 20 | It has become a tradition not to have Blacks . ’ |
| 21 | Now it has become a scene of misery and discontent . |
| 22 | It has become a bit tiresome of late . |
| 23 | ‘ Most people already think it has become a farce . ’ |
| 24 | From being a seller of bills , it has become a buyer . |
| 25 | Sounds as if IBM Corp has thrown in the towel and acknowledged that it will never make it with a word processor of its own : it has become a member of Wordperfect Corp 's Customer Advantage Programme , a fancy name for a company-wide licence for IBM to distribute and use Wordperfect products throughout the company with ‘ significant savings ’ and simplified licence administration . |
| 26 | It has become a hive of activity . |
| 27 | It has become a centre of business and commerce , with an important place in banking and insurance . |
| 28 | There can be no doubt that in the 112 years it has been standing on the embankment it has become a part of the London scene . |
| 29 | NCR is the latest bastion to fall to Novell : it has become a part of Novell 's Alliance Program to collaborate on early development of Novell products . |
| 30 | It has become a part of life . ’ |