Example sentences of "[verb] become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In just three weeks , the Supreme Soviet has become a real parliament , in the sense that every problem of national life feeds into it . |
| 2 | Finding a roof over your head has become a real problem for many more thousands of young people seeking a home of their own . |
| 3 | ‘ The Fatsia japonica under the stairs has become a real fatso , ’ Claudia pointed out , but she has a more manageable fatsia , which happily shares his pot by the street door by the Clematis montana ‘ Tetrarose . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The pub has become a real community centre , and attracts locals from the villages . |
| 6 | He has become a real Telford native . |
| 7 | Writing in 1947 , Hogg ( later Lord Hailsham ) , presenting the Conservative Party case against the reforms introduced by the Labour government , felt that the rate of income tax ‘ has become a potent cause of social harm as well as a source of revenue ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Subject to sections 7 and 8 below , a person who has become a rehabilitated person for the purposes of this Act in respect of a conviction shall be treated for all purposes in law as a person who has not committed or been charged with or prosecuted for or convicted of or sentenced for the offence or offences which were the subject of that conviction ; and , notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment or rule of law to the contrary , but subject as aforesaid — |
| 9 | The smuggling of aliens , he says , has become a new source of money for the gangs ‘ and they are growing bolder by the month . ’ |
| 10 | Since the early 1960s it has undergone a transformation as great as that of the nineteenth century and has become a new settlement with virtually no connection with agriculture or coal . |
| 11 | Recording the fetal heart rate has become a fixed feature of intrapartum care ; we need to reconsider and remember that it is an extremely limited method for assessing the health of the fetus . |
| 12 | ‘ Because of the influx of television , video , radio , newspapers , and other means of mass communication , ’ they argued , ‘ the world has become a global village , making it possible to carry unhealthy materials from one side to another . ’ |
| 13 | The answer is that , for many of us , the cat has become a living toy rather than a real animal . |
| 14 | ‘ As you know only too well , ’ he wrote after leaving Broadlands on one occasion to embark on a six-month cruise , ‘ to me it has become a second home in so many ways , and no one could ever have had such a splendid honorary grandpapa in the history of avuncular relationships . ’ |
| 15 | Beck House , in Faverdale , has become a second home to many people in the area with learning difficulties . |
| 16 | All the same , among today 's MPs , the monarchy itself has become a touchy and electorally dangerous topic . |
| 17 | There , even a home-grown ‘ soft ’ discounter called Kwik Save , which offers a slightly wider product-range at higher prices than true hard discounters , has become a firm favourite with retail analysts . |
| 18 | Small it may be , but as the centre of an area of prosperous little villages , it has become a thriving business centre , and is equipped with a wide range of sports facilities , while the admirably designed , flag-bedecked Thurgauerhof is a thriving centre for concerts , exhibitions and other events . |
| 19 | And since last October ‘ The Little Red Province ’ has become a pejorative term , like ‘ Reds ’ . |
| 20 | The library has become a closer ally of subject work partly because of the emphasis given by the national curriculum to study skills and information technology . |
| 21 | Once it meant political independence and freedom from commercial pressures , but given the increasingly prescriptive and bureaucratic nature of grant-aid that has become a dubious notion . |
| 22 | ‘ How shall the crimes that have their direct source in the immoral motion pictures be measured ? ’ he asked , before declaring , ‘ Catholics are called by God , the pope , the Bishops and the priests to a united and vigorous campaign for the purification of the cinema , which has become a deadly menace to morals . ’ |
| 23 | In some counties , such as Staffordshire , such a previously common wetland plant as reed has become a rare sight . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The RSPCA confidently state that ‘ Dog Registration has become a political hot potato — the Royal society , along with other allied organisations and the majority of the general public , are convinced that national , compulsory registration for all dogs is the only way to solve the UK dog population explosion . |
| 26 | If Nigel de Gruchy of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Women Teachers ( and there 's a catchy title if ever there was one ) can not weave any more magic into his protest than ‘ The national curriculum has become a political football being booted up and down the right wing of the Conservative Party , ’ he does n't deserve to be taken seriously . |
| 27 | The repairs debacle has become a political battle symbolising the party 's awkward relationship to its own supporters . |
| 28 | In the last decade of the century , therefore , democracy and what may be called a ‘ democratic way of life ’ has become a political principle almost universally subscribed to , though its actual practice still remains very imperfect in large areas of the world . |
| 29 | The revelation that Canadian prices for new drugs are relatively high internationally has become a political issue . |
| 30 | Herbert Morrison attacked the Club in the December 1938 London News : There is ample evidence that the Left Book Club , through its groups , has become a political movement with substantial money behind it , and that one of its main activities is in the direction of manipulating and controlling local Labour Parties . |