Example sentences of "as [pers pn] have become " in BNC.
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| 31 | The " demographic time-bomb " as it has become known will ensure that those who are nurses and those who decide to train to become nurses will become more precious by the year . |
| 32 | In addition , it is feared that methods of collecting the community charge by establishing a register of all residents over the age of 18 may result in those who can not afford the tax not completing their electoral registration forms , as this may alert the authorities to their liability for the community charge ( or Poll Tax as it has become known ) . |
| 33 | As a result , more extreme measures — rate limitation , or rate capping , as it has become known — have been introduced to curb those authorities that have been determined to provide a high level of public services despite the cost . |
| 34 | Under the old community the harvest was the climax of the rural year , not merely an incident in the more mechanical and depersonalized round on the farm as it has become today . |
| 35 | Over the past few years , part of the Left in Britain has moved into a more considered view as to the limits of elements of the British constitution , at the same time as it has become increasingly alive to the merits of elements of that same constitution — especially in so far as they bear on the issues of democracy , the sovereignty of Parliament and the people , and civil liberties . |
| 36 | On 1st May , 1685 , John Graham of Claverhouse , ‘ Bloody Clavers ’ as he had become known , was at Lesmahagow in Lanarkshire and due to leave on a patrol of Ayrshire . |
| 37 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |
| 38 | As he had become an English citizen and relations between ourselves and the Soviet Union were , when he died , a great deal pricklier than they are today , this caused considerable suspicion and distrust among the fiscal authorities of both countries . |
| 39 | The Foreign Secretary he had appointed only six months previously , had for some weeks been as exhausted in health as he had become weak on Italian sanctions . |
| 40 | Colonel Lord C had decided to recall Sylvia from the USA , as he had become increasingly worried about Madeleine and Jeanne in Paris . |
| 41 | In January 1660 he became a captain in the regiment ( formerly Fleetwood 's ) of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper ( later first Earl of Shaftesbury , q.v. ) , and the connection continued after the Restoration , when Lord Ashley ( as he had become ) was chancellor of the Exchequer , and Warcup , among other financial concessions , was a farmer of the excise in Wiltshire and Dorset . |
| 42 | The ideas were always Durance 's , he always initiated the paintings and when his hands permitted he carried out the work , but as he had become increasingly crippled the execution had been left more and more to his protégée . |
| 43 | Auguste , or Mr Dee as he had become over the week , smiled . |
| 44 | They have also aroused Protestant anger against Dr Runcie , at the same time as he has become involved in a row over his attack on the ‘ Pharisees ’ of British society . |