Example sentences of "become a [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I , I think after this er people have n't appreciated yet that they 've , the grounds have become a bit safer than they were the hooligan element seemed to be taking over , they have er closed circuit television now , at Walsall , so they can get to the hot spot of any trouble and er they erm the ground |
| 2 | Norman had become a bit weary of struggling through the Edinburgh traffic jams from his home in Strathaven each day for 16 months since being asked by Peter Wood , then Managing Director of Financial Services Division , to take over the running of RBIS while a management consultancy exercise was carried out on the company by the Boston Consultancy Group . |
| 3 | It has become a bit tiresome of late . |
| 4 | At times when the government has been responsive to union calls for intervention , appeal to the minister has become a defacto final stage of the machinery . |
| 5 | Not only in school contexts , but in hospitals and day centres and at home , the new relationship has become a teacher/pupil one . |
| 6 | He 's become a success all by himself . |
| 7 | And he made a number of management changes which reinforced the impression that Eurotunnel had become a company capable of acting in the best interests of bankers and shareholders and standing up to the demands of the Anglo-French contracting consortium . |
| 8 | The college had become a body concerned with the formulation and execution of foreign policy and nothing else . |
| 9 | By this time though , judging what footholds you can and can not use on this bizarrely rippled slab , should have become a touch clearer . |
| 10 | As the 1980s came to an end the fitness movement worldwide had become a £1 billion industry . |
| 11 | By 1937 " appeasement " had become a term acceptable to supporters of the National government . |
| 12 | As the US administration and its lackeys in Downing Street drag Britain ever closer towards military catastrophe , the need for a mass movement against war in the Gulf has become a number one priority . |
| 13 | And , because parliament alone can change the constitution , it has become a weapon that parliament exploits cynically to block reform . |
| 14 | Because of improvements such as these , St. Peter 's had become a Grade 1 hospital under the EMS scheme , and in view of the additional duties falling on the shoulders of their medical officer , Dean Pollard 's salary was increased from £350 to £450 per annum . |
| 15 | But Greece 's have become a lot worse than most other people 's because of a couple of things those centuries it spent under Ottoman rule did to it . |
| 16 | At the time of writing , the situation had become a lot calmer , though it had only been a couple of weeks since Stan received his first injection . |
| 17 | And by the end of the decade , software will have become a commodity similar in importance to the machines themselves . |
| 18 | The pop video had become a commodity saleable to the public . |
| 19 | He criticised the backwardness of Islamic orthodoxy ; nevertheless he wrote on 17 October 1936 , ‘ a soul that was only superficially Islamic has become a soul convinced of Islam … a soul that daily rendered homage to HIM ’ . |