Example sentences of "have become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It says the intelligent network market in the US and Europe will reach $107,000m by then — a six-fold increase on today 's figure , and will have become a standard part of the phone service . |
| 2 | erm I think the city must have become a real mess , there were stores piled up everywhere , wood , coal , corn , often I think they had to build sort of , something to hold the corn , there 's a lot of the evidence for that in the college accounts certainly . |
| 3 | Had it continued , however , the rebel university could have become a rival establishment to both Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 4 | And in 500 years , when the distinction between twentieth-century decades will have become a mere specialist detail ( as is the distinction , for most of us , between the 1840s and the 1850s ) ? |
| 5 | Sometimes a tool was ground after a breakage or similar accident , and the resulting shape would allow a usage not previously possible , and may even have become a treasured ‘ special ’ . |
| 6 | Such patterns may have become a conventional part of the mosaicist 's repertory , indeed , the similarity of these mosaics to some in north-eastern England ( part IV ) suggests a widespread acceptance of these forms of decoration . |
| 7 | Chaos now seemed poised to threaten the system from inside and without , and it is almost inevitable that the term ‘ civvy ’ should have become a derogatory reference . |
| 8 | At one time I could easily have become a fundamentalist advocate of natural childbirth ( Reaching for certainty NI 210 ) . |
| 9 | The difficulty here is best demonstrated when Honderich , analyzing the notion that Conservatism is a ‘ defence of the familiar ’ , argues that if this were central to Conservatism ‘ we should have a mystery on our hands , the mystery of how an egregious idiocy could have become a large political tradition ’ . |
| 10 | In short , the ration book would have become a national institution like the council house . |
| 11 | And it should be said that , at least outwardly , Murphy and his men retained their charm and their good humour throughout what must have become a harrowing experience . |
| 12 | I think , possibly people who do n't make it have become a little starstruck . |