Example sentences of "has become the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the US and Japan , Nintendo has become the standard , with NEC and Sega being the main challengers . |
| 2 | Novell Inc has formed a new business unit at the old Digital Research base in Monterey , California to focus on helping customers use commodity hardware and Novell 's client operating systems to build low-cost turnkey systems for manufacturing and service industry applications such as manufacturing process control , industrial automation and support of point-of-sale terminals — where it claims the Digital Research FlexOS has become the standard . |
| 3 | On-screen editing has become the norm for all student work . |
| 4 | In legal and semi-legal texts , it has become the norm to use lexical repetition even in instances where no ambiguity might result from using pronominal reference . |
| 5 | But it is not generally the stuff that appears on television , where self-restraint has become the norm . |
| 6 | Kroger , a client of Goldman Sachs , has become the country 's second-largest grocery chain with the help of junk bonds . |
| 7 | The debate over research has become the battleground for the competing ideologies of the academic community and of the state . |
| 8 | Mr Donnelly , consultant surgeon at Liverpool 's Cardiothoracic Centre , has told of his hopes for a three-year study to find out why Merseyside has become the lung cancer capital of the world . |
| 9 | What was once the tide of progress and aspiration embodied in John Betjeman 's twee Metro-land verses has become the sediment of middle-aged , middle-class insularity . |
| 10 | With increasing costs and generally static science budgets , international collaboration has become the order of the decade . |
| 11 | COMPUTER-AIDED experimental design has become the order of the day in the research and technology department of Courtaulds ' Interpon powder business . |
| 12 | Here Racal is compensating by cultivating paramilitary forces , and has become the Government 's nominated supplier of secure mobile radios to UK police forces . |
| 13 | The expressive order , it is argued , has become the message itself , with ‘ back ’ emotions exploding out to the ‘ front ’ . |
| 14 | As well as bringing up their three children — Andrea , six , Charlotte , five , and Pierre , three — on her own , Caroline , 34 , has become the boss of the eight companies owned by the Italian oil heir . |
| 15 | Although it probably began as a lung , over the course of evolution it has become the swimbladder , an ingenious device with which the fish maintains itself as a hydrostat in permanent equilibrium . |
| 16 | Because of its strategic position Strasbourg has become the rail centre of Europe . |
| 17 | One of her first purchases has become the museum 's biggest loss : ‘ The Concert ’ by Jan Vermeer , bought at an auction in Paris for FFr29,000 . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , in the light of these considerations it is hard to escape the impression that , like the Venus of Willendorf , or the many-breasted Diana of Ephesus , the modern welfare state has become the re-embodiment of the primal mother , the abstract , secular , bureaucratic equivalent of the mother-as-breast . |
| 19 | " Capital sums " — section 739(3) ( 4 ) states : ( 3 ) Where , whether before or after any such transfer , such an individual receives or is entitled to receive any capital sum the payment of which is in any way connected with the transfer or any associated operation , any income which , by virtue or in consequence of the transfer , either alone or in conjunction with associated operations , has become the income of a person resident or domiciled outside the United Kingdom shall , whether it would or would not have been chargeable to income tax apart from the provisions of this section , be deemed to be income of that individual for all purposes of the Income Tax Acts . |
| 20 | In the ‘ new South Africa ’ , as with all sports , this has become the prerequisite for South African rugby 's re-entry into the international arena , no matter that those sympathetic to Danie Craven 's SARB feel other options to exist . |
| 21 | The very fact that the ‘ log-cabin' has become the symbol of the pioneer farmer indicates this : on the great prairies timber was not so plentiful . |
| 22 | Winfrith has become the home to a new apprenticeship scheme serving the South West following the move of Headwey ( UK ) Limited to lease facilities on site . |
| 23 | The triggers for Britain 's nuclear bombs were tested within their thick concrete walls and they housed the first experiments into radar.The buildings , on a remote spit of land on the Suffolk coast , may not be the oldest but they are certainly among the most historic and sinister in the ownership of the National Trust.They are on Orford Ness , a desolate wildlife haven , which has become the Trust 's latest acquisition at a cost of £3.5 million.Yesterday , in pouring rain and silence broken only by the eerie shriek of gulls , the buildings were shown to journalists for what is thought to be the first time since they were erected.Strands of barbed wire and a Ministry of Defence ‘ keep out ’ notice are now the only remaining evidence of the tight security , overseen by armed guards , which surrounded one of Britain 's most secret research establishments . |
| 24 | The old walled town around the castle has become the CBD with shops , banks and offices . |
| 25 | It has become the drug of choice for the American armed forces and for the World Health Organization , and has survived against the threat of resistant strains for a surprisingly long time . |
| 26 | As has become the tradition , the tournament got under way when Gene Sarazen , 90 earlier this year , struck the opening drive . |
| 27 | Sandor Rado , in an article devoted to the elucidation of manic-depressive disorders , expresses the opinion that ‘ At the bottom of the melancholiac 's profound dread of impoverishment there is really simply a dread of starvation … drinking at the mother 's breast remains the radiant image of unremitting , forgiving love , ’ and he adds that ‘ It is certainly no mere chance that the Madonna nursing the Child has become the emblem of a mighty religion and thereby the emblem of a whole epoch in our Western civilization . |
| 28 | Annie has become the subject of her daughter-in-law 's revenge by being forced to pay her money to see her grandchild . |
| 29 | It says a lot about the present that the recent past has become the subject of much dewy-eyed recollection — mostly by people who were still at primary school when Grandmaster Flash began cutting his way into musical history . |
| 30 | The mill has become the subject of a thorough restoration programme . |