Example sentences of "it [verb] become [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has become usual practice for record companies to advance bands some money to underwrite the costs of these first tours . |
| 2 | It has become standard practice to picture the two cultures as standing in the most acute opposition at that time . |
| 3 | It has become common form to invoke the magic names of the French theorists , as if the names alone would cause a torpid academic establishment to collapse . |
| 4 | Unfortunately this latter function is very difficult to generate using simple analogue circuits , So it has become common practice to approximate the velocity profile by linear ramp functions [ Figs. 8.8 ( b , c ) ] . |
| 5 | In large organizations it has become common practice for audit committees , consisting of representatives of senior management , the internal audit department and external auditors , to meet . |
| 6 | However , it has become common practice to say that if the terms of the draft are approved , then the top copy should be retained and used as an engrossment for the purposes of signature . |
| 7 | It has become big business with a huge amount of money riding on the outcome . ’ |
| 8 | Ms Kennedy , who is writing a book on women in the criminal justice system , said it had become common practice in rape trials to employ women lawyers for the defence . |
| 9 | Before Morris introduced this type of maze , it had become common practice to study spatial learning in a more conventional version of the same task , in which rats are placed in various forms of radial mazes with four , six or eight arms , and must learn to run to a goal box containing food or water at the end of one of the arms . |
| 10 | By the middle of February , when the Shah had been in Morocco more than a month , it had become common gossip in the diplomatic corps that Hassan was giving him the cold shoulder . |
| 11 | Many unexplained and ignored results still litter the research journals of the early 1970s , unread and unconsidered because as a research paradigm memory transfer is no longer taken seriously ; it had become another victim of scientific fashion , though , unlike McIlwain 's slices , this time probably deservedly . |
| 12 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |