Example sentences of "[noun] have become a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Siegfried Gohr left the Kunsthalle to become Director of the Ludwig , the Kunsthalle has become a mere exhibition space without a director and without a programme . |
| 2 | As diverse evidence also indicates that the stars found in star-forming regions lose mass either from their surfaces or from surrounding accretion disks , a causal connection between stellar mass loss and the H-H objects has become a widespread article of faith . |
| 3 | Experimentation with colour and support has become a major preoccupation for him . |
| 4 | There are lines round my eyes and my hair has become a hag 's rope . |
| 5 | Among many other activities of other fellows we may record that Professor Anna Davies gave the Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures at Harvard University , that Barbara Harvey has become a member of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts , and Hilary Ockendon a deputy director on OCIAM , the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics . |
| 6 | For my three children , walking , toddling and cycling in the park has become a much more pleasant experience . |
| 7 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Software Products division has become a charter member of a new Tools Interface Standards committee , an industry group that aims to define specifications that enable vendors to enhance the interoperability and portability of 32-bit development tools and to improve the economics of developing 32-bit applications ; others include Borland International Inc , Intel Corp , Lotus Development Corp , Metaware Inc , Microsoft Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc and Watcom Ltd , which will work to define a set of tool interface specifications for 32-bit operating systems and provide an open forum . |
| 8 | But Brightness has become a money-spinner ; the Russians have become capitalists ; and the Beluga has become a pawn in an international game . |
| 9 | As she rightly points out , the effectiveness of metronidazole in rosacea was first reported in Britain and topical metronidazole has become a market leader in the United States . |
| 10 | The Platinum Award has become a regular feature of Edinburgh College of Art 's jewellery curriculum and for several years students from the section have made it to the finals — frequently winning at least one of the prizes . |
| 11 | The origin of the Swastika has become a source of speculation for western researchers throughout time . |
| 12 | The parliament has become a garrison . |
| 13 | Reasons are that the PC has become the conventional engineering tool ; most DSP applications programs run under ms-dos ; hardware interfacing of target DSP boards to the PC has become a standard practice , and the PC represents a low cost entry point into the field of DSP development . |
| 14 | Like the video recorder and the pocket calculator , the PC has become a commodity item . |
| 15 | Bung in a card , plug in to the LAN , and your humble workaday PC has become a sexy , hi-tech LANstation . |
| 16 | Used in this way , the computer has become a valuable background resource in British schools rather than an agent of revolutionary change . |
| 17 | Palestinian stubbornness has become a major stumbling block to the peace process as conceived by the United States . |
| 18 | Strict liability has become a basis on which a victim can sue a producer . |
| 19 | Rescheduling of such debts has become a necessity for the private banks , and a practice which has emerged is that new agreements have been made conditional on such countries accepting the stringent programmes of the IMF which are intended to promote effective adjustment of a country 's balance of payments and ensure that the use of Fund resources is temporary . |
| 20 | In a survey of small businesses , Nat West said that late payment of trade debts has become a major problem over the past year . |
| 21 | Since the Second World War the Sussex has become a stronger colour-marker , much neater of shoulder than the powerful draught type of old , shorter in the leg and better in the hindquarters , and it still produces lean , marbled meat , especially in the prime cuts . |
| 22 | In its idyllic surroundings of the Herefordshire Wye Valley Courtfield has become a natural haven of peace . |
| 23 | ‘ But since then Colin has become a champion so I 'm quite sure that he would like a fairly substantial purse for the fight . |
| 24 | An undercover detective said : ‘ Stalking has become a problem that we must take seriously . ’ |
| 25 | For feminists , the acknowledgement of lesbian experience has become a central theoretical issue . |
| 26 | Deborah Warner has become a cult figure for stark and emotive work . |
| 27 | If Nigel de Gruchy of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Women Teachers ( and there 's a catchy title if ever there was one ) can not weave any more magic into his protest than ‘ The national curriculum has become a political football being booted up and down the right wing of the Conservative Party , ’ he does n't deserve to be taken seriously . |
| 28 | The press has mushroomed , stalls are packed with newspapers and Romania has become a mecca for journalists from the West eager not only to report but instruct the new media , still largely partisan and biased , in western techniques and styles . |
| 29 | Money has become a thing of no value : usury , once a sin , is now the faith of nations . |
| 30 | But in the corporate structure this has become very much more common , in relation to a highly organized and fully capitalized market in which the direct commissioning of planned saleable products has become a normal mode . |