Example sentences of "which have [adv] become " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote Leopold a philosophical letter which has since become famous , in which he said that over the past few years he had come to regard death as the ‘ true goal ’ of man 's existence , and that he had become so closely acquainted with this ‘ best and truest friend ’ that the image of death was no longer terrifying , but rather reassuring and consoling . |
| 2 | Since that case was decided , the nature of constitutional guarantees has subtly changed in the constitution of the United Kingdom , which has since become a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights , Article 11 of which guarantees to citizens of the signatory countries a right to freedom of assembly . |
| 3 | In Figueres , his Catalan hometown , he set up his own museum ( which has also become his mausoleum since his death two years ago ) , with its own foundation to administer it . |
| 4 | ‘ I left in 1940 to join the RAF , which I stayed with until November 1945 , and then I went to Hacker Rubens & Co which has now become Hacker Young . ’ |
| 5 | Out of this and out of a more general TANU mass media seminar in 1968 was eventually to come TANU 's mass media committee , which has now become an important influence on Tanzania 's mass media as a whole . |
| 6 | Because these were not casual , throw-away remarks , but a sustained celebration of youthfulness which has now become virtually unthinkable within the thickening twilight of liberal education : This kind of exhilaration has gone out of writings on the youth question , and some people will think that it is no bad thing . |
| 7 | By omission therefore , and it is an understandable though regrettable omission in the circumstances , they did not address the possibility which has now become a reality that a blood transfusion may be a life-saving procedure . |
| 8 | If the wavecut platform extends much further seawards than the projection of the degraded cliff it seems very likely that much of the platform was cut in the past at the foot of the cliff which has now become degraded and not in relation to the present active section at the bottom of the cliff , the state of affairs shown in Fig. 8.13 . |
| 9 | ‘ Memphis ’ is the name of the design partnership set up by the Italian designer Ettore Sottsass in 1981 when he exhibited the furniture which has now become pseudonymous with this name at the Italian Furniture Fair . |
| 10 | Because of that , the CITB has had to introduce various schemes using its own investment to tide it over what it believed at the outset would be a short recession , but which has now become a very deep and long recession . |
| 11 | Mm , yeah al almost holds so it 's obviously a word which has now become erm , obsolete for you people . |
| 12 | The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend . |
| 13 | Around Sarajevo there is always an atmosphere : the voice of bullets , shelling and mortars which has now become an atmosphere of ordinary life . ’ |
| 14 | Many of the elms have been replaced by Cupressus , notably the 18th fairway boundary hedge which has quickly become an effective screen and pleasing to look at . |
| 15 | Judging by the number of recent articles , letters to newspapers and magazines and general comment on the future of the game , it is the controversy over professionalism which has rightly become the item for debate . |
| 16 | Still , there is an alternative tradition in Western thought , one which has never become ‘ official ’ but which nevertheless arises spontaneously from experience . |
| 17 | Wriggling closer , she slid her hands inside his shirt , which had somehow become unbuttoned , then shivered and held her breath as his warm palms roved beneath her sweater , and an almost physical pain exploded inside her as one thumb touched her nipple . |
| 18 | After I had left her she had spilt her cup of tea all over the bedclothes , which had soon become not only wet but cold and wet . |
| 19 | She had mastered Eddie 's cycle and came around the corner as though she were taking part in one of the bicycle races which had recently become such a popular spectator sport . |
| 20 | We decided it would be a good idea to develop a computer corpus of British English , intended to match the Brown University Corpus of American English which had recently become available , and which was the first computer corpus of modern English . |
| 21 | When the cockchafers arrived , Lucy , the O'Hanlon sisters , Harry , Fleury , Mohammed and Ram were all seated around a little fire in the middle of the floor of the banqueting hall not too far from the baronial fireplace which had unfortunately become impossible to reach through the stacks of " possessions " ; this fire had been cleverly made by Lucy herself out of bits and pieces of smashed furniture ; a large gothic " chair of oak , which Lucy 's lovely but not very powerful muscles had been unable to get the better of , lay on its side with one leg in the fire while the kettle hung from the leg above it , an ingenious idea of Lucy 's own . |
| 22 | She had met him at one of those dinner parties which had now become the nexus of her social life , replacing conferences and meetings , although few of the individuals had changed . |
| 23 | In the kitchen , which had now become familiar to him , Joe set about making the two cups of cocoa . |
| 24 | Eagle Annuals and Dinky Toys , both of which had now become collector 's items . |
| 25 | This form of ‘ social Darwinism ’ emphasized the destructive capacity of struggle , but drew even more heavily upon pre-Darwinian models of historical development , which had now become fashionable in the age of imperialism . |
| 26 | Usually the agora was bounded on three sides by stoas which had now become more elaborate in design . |
| 27 | It was significant that during a press conference called on 18 May 1960 Khrushchev not only denounced Eisenhower but also asserted the importance of the Cuban revolution , which had suddenly become the subject of enthusiastic and laudatory articles in the Soviet press . |
| 28 | The immediate application of this engine was in pumping water out of mine workings , which had often become so badly flooded that it was impossible for them to be worked , and pumps driven by waterwheels were unequal to the huge drainage problems . |
| 29 | Confinement , which had gradually become accustomed and endurable , now chafed like chains . |
| 30 | Following weeks of arguments , which had gradually become more and more bitter , the crunch when it came had been swift and brutal . |