Example sentences of "become a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also the culmination of a fifteen-year period in which the care of children had become a major political concern , the focus of media attention and public outrage , and an ideological battleground for rival pressure groups and experts . |
| 2 | In practice , these attempts to control local government expenditure have become a major political issue in the past decade , with some authorities resisting central government controls . |
| 3 | The ‘ environment ’ had become a major political issue , and with the media constantly monitoring the progress of policy development , this resulted in active competition between elected officials to produce and be credited with strong legislation . |
| 4 | The violence began on June 4 in the city of Osh , which had a majority Uzbek population , sparked off by a dispute over the use of farmland for housing ( the scarcity of housing in Central Asia had become a major political issue in recent years , and had already been a factor in ethnic violence between Uzbeks and Meskhetians in the nearby Fergana valley in June 1989 , and in rioting in Tadjikistan in February 1990 — see pp. 36744-45 ; 37256-57 ) . |
| 5 | Dr Ed Dart , director of research at ICI Seeds , which has become a major international organisation since it started in 1985 , plays these down . |
| 6 | Already Bahrain has become a major international banking centre with over one hundred and fifty bank branches and representative offices , although oil market developments plus the political environment of the region could curb its rate of progress . |
| 7 | The May festival has become a major social event in the racing calendar and includes a classic trial for the Derby . |
| 8 | Multicultural education has become a major educational concern in recent years , especially in schools . |
| 9 | In addition , there is fanaticism and lack of religious tolerance , which has become a major human rights problem in many parts of the world . |
| 10 | The strong achievement orientation of Japanese society and the degree to which it has become a genuine educational meritocracy have led many to assume that this aim has been achieved . |
| 11 | It had become a worldwide traded commodity . |
| 12 | Indeed , the RUC has become a well-organised paramilitary force with a range of repressive powers . |
| 13 | You 'll get much more out of the tutorial and feel you " belong " , once you 've become a regular contributing member of the learning group . |
| 14 | An agent spotted the 18-year-old from Croydon in an airport queue — and since then Kate has become a real high-gloss jet-setter . |
| 15 | By this time Hill had become a recognized Evangelical leader in Oxford . |
| 16 | The drug mafia have become a new economic elite , beyond government control . |
| 17 | When this country is already committed to the highly expensive Trident ( which , from changes in global politics , has become a complete white elephant ) ; when the need for the EFA is also , to say the least , questionable , as recognised by all the partners in it and particularly Germany ; and when our own government accepts that public spending cuts are essential ; then surely the EFA should be the prime target for those cuts . |
| 18 | They make major depredations on oyster beds and the recent activities of the ‘ Crown of Thorns ’ starfish ( Acanthaster ) in chewing up great chunks of the Great Barrier Reef have become a modern ecological object lesson ( and , incidentally , a source of funds for many marine biologists ) . |
| 19 | In every other European country , regional policy has become a hot political issue , particularly in the past decade . |
| 20 | Few can rival the Natural History Museum 's offer of drinks beneath its dinosaur , but Christmas and new-year parties have become a nice little earner for museums and galleries right across the country . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course , it is n't the Done Thing to poach people — let alone a whole unit — from an Ally , ’ George went on , ‘ but our East German operations had completely fallen apart , the place had become a total black hole as far as The Firm knew , and they were desperate . |
| 22 | We were much pressed in argument with submissions that , although fraudulent conduct has become a serious social evil , there are other evils just as grave , or even graver , which have not attracted any special powers ; that if the reason for giving exceptional powers to the Serious Fraud Office is that many frauds involve complicated transactions which are difficult to unravel , then the same could be said of the long and complex trials ( for instance , arising from charges of affray , or of the importation and supply of prohibited drugs ) to which no such powers have been applied ; and that , moreover , the powers of the Office are made available even where the transactions in question are not complicated , since the Act applies to ‘ serious or complex fraud ’ — not ‘ serious and complex fraud . ’ |
| 23 | They were just pleased that the movies had become a normal everyday activity . |
| 24 | For the first time in history , later life has become a normal human expectation . |
| 25 | Arthur had become a professional musical instrument maker . |
| 26 | By 1959 , the 1.7-square mile site had become a small industrial town in its own right and production peaked at 470,000 cars , trucks and tractors . |
| 27 | Silk Slippers enabled Sangster — slowly-sinking in the super league of owners — to regain a foothold by wearing down the red-hot favourite , Moon Cactus , owned ironically by Sheikh Mohammed , in the dying strides of an event that has become a fertile proving ground for Classic fillies . |
| 28 | Now the political culture of the time was such that the political system which actually emerged is rather different from that which some of the people who went to Philadelphia thought would emerge and that really reflects a number of changes , one that America has grown from four million to two hundred and fifty million , two , from being isolated , remote and scattered the population has consolidated and grown , America has become a vast industrial power as opposed to a , an agricultural nation and all these have had their impact upon the importance and scope of government . |
| 29 | Mass unemployment was fully appreciated and influenced the thinking of all governments , which in Britain had become a strong Labour government , following a general election , leaving Winston Churchill as the leader of a small Conservative opposition . |
| 30 | The shapes of the pine trees on the far side of the river were already indistinguishable : the forest had become a dark impenetrable expanse that stretched from the water 's edge right up to the horizon . |