Example sentences of "have become the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VSW Scientific Instruments has become the exclusive European distributor for the Dennis Leigh Technology range of mass spectrometers . |
| 2 | The result of this , as far as the individual is concerned , is still inevitably depression and its polar opposite mania , except that in these circumstances depression has become the vague permanent melancholy which state oppression invariably induces , and the intermittent mania is that produced by alcohol . |
| 3 | THEFT has become the fastest growing business with more than £2 billion worth of goods stolen every year , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 4 | Inhibition of gastric acid secretion has become the traditional medical treatment for reflux oesophagitis . |
| 5 | This has become the standard Tory party-point in which the Labour Party can be linked with the ecological disaster areas of the no-growth communist world . |
| 6 | VAT , which replaced purchase tax , has become the other major revenue raiser . |
| 7 | Maxwell House , which has become the other local brand now seeing as how Maxwell House is owned by Kraft , and Kraft now own Terry 's . |
| 8 | Herman Ouseley has become the first black chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 9 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG has become the first non-US company to adopt Hewlett-Packard Co 's SoftBench computer-aided software engineering environment . |
| 10 | Adele Graham from Pest Control South West has become the first female supervisor . |
| 11 | PIONEERING Dawn Walden pictured right , has become the first female fire fighter at Courtaulds Fibres ' Grimsby plant in the UK . |
| 12 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 13 | The new republic of Hungary has become the first eastern European government to commit to open systems and will use X/Open 's XPG brand in procurement . |
| 14 | Middlesbrough has become the first local authority in Cleveland to approve a proposed licensing scheme for doormen . |
| 15 | An Institute member has become the first chartered accountant to face trial on money laundering charges under the drug Trafficking Offence Act 1986 . |
| 16 | THE Isle of Man has become the first British authority to issue plastic identity card driving licences with tamper-proof colour photographs , using a £30,000 digital imaging system developed by Hitachi and NBS Card Systems of Weybridge , Surrey . |
| 17 | Reading Transport has become the first British bus company to run its buses on a fuel derived from oilseed rape . |
| 18 | A pilot from Wiltshire has become the first British serviceman to be decorated in Bosnia . |
| 19 | Moss Bros has become the first high street retailer to launch a privilege card that clocks up points towards discounts at the till , giving customers money off at the group 's stores and other outlets . |
| 20 | Lord Hesketh , who farms 5,000 acres at Towcester Northamptonshire , has become the first honorary vice-president of the British Simmental Cattle Society . |
| 21 | DEC says its Ultrix MLS+ has become the only high-performance Compartmented Mode Workstation to pass the US government 's Initial Product Assessment Report Technical Review Board , the last major step before entering Formal Evaluation . |
| 22 | The spread of HIV infection has become the major public health issue of the century . |
| 23 | The UK has become the largest fast food market in Europe — by 1990 there were about 1,500 fast food outlets in the UK . |
| 24 | The unprecedented blitz of media hype surrounding the restoration , expansion and long awaited re-opening of Frank Lloyd Wright 's great spiralling concrete shell has created a huge public interest and lining up to get in and see what all the fuss is about has become the latest hot civic pursuit . |
| 25 | But Susan Hill 's spine tingler has become the longest running show ever at London 's Fortune Theatre with over 1347 chilling performances . |
| 26 | Hitch and Baddeley ( 1978 ) have proposed a model of working memory , developed from what has become the basic modal model in psychology , which gives a focus for our discussion ( fig. 11.1 ) . |
| 27 | We have seen how the corporatist welfare state which has emerged in this country over the past hundred years is a reflection of a humanist philosophy in which the creation of wealth is of less concern and morally inferior than its distribution , in which the pursuit of equality has become the dominant economic philosophy and in which the state rather than the individual has come to be held responsible for solving our problems . |
| 28 | It gives me some satisfaction to learn that 12 years later British Airways , privatised , efficient , and highly profitable , has become the biggest international airline in the world , while Lufthansa , struggling with high costs , has seen its reputation slip . |
| 29 | They may be piqued by the performance of fellow-American Salomon Brothers , which has become the biggest single bidder at most gilt auctions . |
| 30 | It may be significant that the most restrictive concept of copyright , that enshrined in the Berne Convention , has become the main worldwide standard . |