Example sentences of "of [noun prp] have become " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press of carriages represented an increasing desire of those with money to display it rather than hoard it , determined to keep pace with the fashion : ‘ The dreary bourgeois of Balzac have become vain . |
| 2 | Since that time the Halifax Building Society and the Bank of Scotland have become Appointed Representatives and in future will sell only Standard Life 's products through their branches . |
| 3 | The Highlands and Islands of Scotland have become an ideal testing ground for this form of work , some of it extremely high-level . |
| 4 | THE FIVE counties making up the south western corner of England have become a prime target for supermarket development . |
| 5 | Since 1960 very precise tests of GR have become possible thanks to advances in technology . |
| 6 | The crowded , bustling scenes of Bosch have become an isolated , inward-looking face , an entire body suspended in space . |
| 7 | The landed gentry of Europe have become a leisured class cut off from the peasantry and increasingly divorced from the authority of scripture . |
| 8 | Scientists on board Greenpeace 's Rainbow Pacific research ship have claimed that whales in the southern reaches of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman have become disorientated by sonar signals emitted from Allied ships during the war with Iraq . |
| 9 | Flooded as part of wartime defence measures , the reedbeds of Minsmere have become famous for their bitterns and marsh harriers , and the muddy " scrape " with shingle islands near the beach is a splendid place for waders , ducks and terns , including a thriving colony of avocets . |
| 10 | His books such as The Man-eaters of Rudraprayag have become minor classics . |