Example sentences of "[coord] have become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here and in the United States , most experts now agree that a doctor is not obliged either ethically or legally to continue treatment when it 's refused or is useless or has become a burden to the patient . |
| 2 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 3 | This attractive black and white mammal has widespread human appeal and has become a symbol for conservation efforts both within China and internationally as the symbol of The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) . |
| 4 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |
| 5 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |
| 6 | The factory has expanded to four times its original size and has become a showpiece of British industry . |
| 7 | Much of this now forms part of Africa 's stock of debt as the recipient countries have been unable to service their export credits , and has become a burden on the export credit guarantee agencies of the EC governments . |
| 8 | The agreement contradicted the promise of Arab self-rule that Britain had made to Sherif Hussein of Mecca ( King Hussein 's great-grandfather ) and has become a byword for duplicity . |
| 9 | THE whole question of sex education in school has arisen in recent years and has become a matter of real importance . |
| 10 | This was a one-off film for Chaplin and he was well aware that to have sustained that role and that theme would have been to sacrifice much of his great following and to have become an artist with a more sectional support . |
| 11 | He had great force of character , and had become a legend in his own lifetime . |
| 12 | By then , he had been a Recorder for ten years and had become a QC in 1974 , continuing in active practice until January 1985 , since when Sir Anthony — he was knighted last year — has acted as both Ombudsman and Health Service Commissioner . |
| 13 | By the winter of 1920–1 the application of compulsion to the workers and peasants had become absolutely counterproductive , and had become a factor in the general collapse of the economy facing the Bolsheviks . |
| 14 | By the time Rune had unclothed her completely Gina 's whole body knew the intimate touch of his mouth and hands and had become a conflagration of need for the ultimate knowledge of the man himself . |
| 15 | After serving as US permanent representative at the UN , Young had spent two terms as mayor of Atlanta , an eight-year period during which the city had been transformed into a magnet for domestic and foreign investment and had become a symbol of the " New South " . |
| 16 | William Penn , a son of the admiral who captured Jamaica , was a friend of the Duke of York and had become a Quaker of the quieter second generation that followed George Fox in his beliefs but not in his attacks on all symbols of the established order . |
| 17 | When I told them that I was born in a similar bed and had become a doctor afterwards they were more convinced . |
| 18 | Gratitude because of the unhesitating generosity with which Doreen gave him the hospitality of her body ; responsibility because he had ceased to be a passing visitor to that body , taking what he could get , and had become a guest , leaving behind something as a token of their intimacy . |
| 19 | By the later nineteenth century , these dangers were much less ; and perhaps more striking is Davy 's other remark , about how in his lifetime chemistry had ceased to be a science of furnaces and large quantities , and had become an activity to be carried on with spirit-lamps and test-tubes in the drawing room . |
| 20 | But there was also a growing disaffection among the younger poets and critics : he had ceased to be a poet and had become an institution , and the only thing to do with an institution is to attempt to pull it down . |
| 21 | He began work as a boy at the Pensher coalmine of Charles Stewart , third Marquis of Londonderry [ q.v. ] , and had become an overman by 1837 . |
| 22 | They come to be seen as existing in their own right ; so that , even when they have ceased to serve their original social purpose and have become an impediment to the progress of society , men continue to defer to them . |
| 23 | It started off as a laugh , but has become a job to me . |
| 24 | He knew little of health administration before accepting the position but has become an expert during four years of radical change in the NHS . |
| 25 | They had not only been active in discussion among themselves , but had become a source of commentary about the state of the nation . |
| 26 | Roads are a vitally important aspect of the UK 's infrastructure , but have become an obsession with some people . |