Example sentences of "[Wh det] have become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POWELL : That — that nursery of traitors and nest of vipers. ( clears throat ) A phrase which has become classic if not an actual thing . |
| 2 | For example , instead of working within an LEA 's planned admissions policy , managers must have information that can help them in the recruitment programme which has become possible through open enrolment legislation . |
| 3 | It is believed to be one of the few parasites which has become free-living . |
| 4 | Traditional grammars give two main explanations of the use of the definite article ( the ) rather than the indefinite article ( a , an ) : the former is used before nouns referring to something unique , or before a noun which has become definite as a result of being mentioned a second time . |
| 5 | We suggest an alternative wording for the second of the proposals : ‘ - to recycle valuable coastal land which has become redundant , e.g. the regeneration of rundown coastal towns and ports ; and … ’ |
| 6 | The passionate understatement of Hiromi Tsuchida 's HIROSHIMA also appears to be related to a movement which has become international — that first identified by the exhibition NEW TOPOGRAPHICS : PHOTOGRAPHS OF A MAN-ALTERED LANDSCAPE ( International Museum of Photography , George Eastman House , NY 1975 ) . |
| 7 | Thus , under capitalism , women 's oppression is not simply a question of individual men oppressing individual women , nor of men in general oppressing women in general ; it takes the form of exploitation in the labour market , which has become essential to maintaining capitalism — low wages , harsh working conditions , little job security — as well as exploitation in the home and family . |
| 8 | In 1775 Percival Pott recognized that scrotal cancers rarely occurred except in chimney-sweeps , an observation which has become famous as one of the earliest records of an industrial cancer . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 10 | It may be that the major mischief at which the Act was directed was the mischief which has become endemic of persons using one computer to hack into another computer . |
| 11 | The trigger , which gives the fish its name , is the leading ray of its dorsal fin which has become bony . |
| 12 | By ‘ thought ’ , however , Pascal does not mean that somewhat shallow notion of Reason which became fashionable in the eighteenth century and which has become fashionable again in the twentieth in the guise of formal logic . |
| 13 | However , although frequently described as polytheistic , it would be more accurate to describe Hinduism as a religion which has become monotheistic by another route to that taken by the Near Eastern religions . |
| 14 | The estate , which has become notorious for high speed races involving stolen cars , and recently attacks on police officers , means that they er will sending increasing numbers of police there . |
| 15 | This development has defined a new and higher standard for interfaces which has become common in all areas of data processing . |
| 16 | Also basing his work on media language , written as well as spoken , Bell ( 1985 ) studies in real time the spread of a process of determiner deletion in noun phrases which has become common in news reports , as demonstrated in 35 as opposed to 36 : |
| 17 | You are not likely to see feet photos on page three , which has become synonymous with mammaries . |
| 18 | What these moral stances have done successfully , is to define the Labour Party as progressive , which has become synonymous with irresponsibility and permissiveness . |
| 19 | Glenmuir , which has become synonymous with top quality golfwear , is offering exclusive to Golf Monthly readers the first prize of tickets for two to this unique spectacle , held this year from the 25th to the 29th of September . |
| 20 | Work by Smith et al. ( 1983 ) and Sneiderman ( 1983 ) developed the concepts behind moving and selecting screen representations , which has become important to all graphics-oriented applications ( such as GIS ) . |
| 21 | This is a point not to be neglected in the context of the film criticism which has become dominant in Anglo-American culture studies . |
| 22 | It has created a world of mobility : of rapid and constant change , with attention focused mainly on novelty or utility — a world eager to break free from tradition which has become irrelevant to a restless , fast-moving age . |
| 23 | Another form of game which has become popular among teachers other than drama teachers has been ‘ simulation ’ , where elaborate game structures are set up usually involving a great deal of time and application in order to teach some specific subject-matter about the civic planning of motorways , starvation in the Third World or executive decision-making in industry . |
| 24 | The outside model of Becker is the one which has become popular under the title of ‘ labelling theory ’ and which has seriously challenged the traditional approaches to the study of so-called deviance . |
| 25 | were traditional watermills and windmills which had become redundant with the introduction of steam , and later electrical power . |
| 26 | Resolutely opposed by two of Gardiner 's less-enlightened predecessors as Lord Chancellor , Simonds and Dilhorne , the Law Commission under its first chairman , Sir Leslie Scarman , soon earned acceptance as a valuable strengthening of the hitherto piecemeal procedures for revising laws which had become outdated or unsatisfactory in practice . |
| 27 | The ebbs and flows of population movement could not be matched by changes in a local government structure which had become fixed in the pattern established in the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | It was strongly supported in the 1950s by the companies who purchased the cotton grown as a cash crop in the savannah , because it appeared to be the most effective way to reverse the declining fertility and falling yields which had become apparent by that time . |
| 29 | However , under SP7/89 , a parent company can surrender ACT that was previously set off against its mainstream tax liability in an assessment which had become final . |
| 30 | Edward Heath 's attempts to commit the party to something more dynamic , outward-looking and enterprise-based , after the meeting at Selsdon Park in 1970 , collapsed in the face of a corporate culture which had become used to having things its own way under a succession of both Conservative and Labour governments . |