Example sentences of "has become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First the managers will be encouraged to tackle an issue that has become problematical in a bureau by asking open questions of themselves and the bureau staff . |
| 2 | Not until after the middle of the seventeenth century do we once more find a government clerk making use of verse as an outlet after he has become psychotic , and then , as he writes from the asylum , he has nothing to lose by revealing himself . |
| 3 | Is the Secretary of State for the Environment mistaken in pointing out that the Government 's position on RECHAR has become untenable ? |
| 4 | As a consequence land has become unproductive as unpalatable weeds have replaced nutritious fodder . |
| 5 | 5.5 Title to the goods comprised in each consignment shall not pass to the Purchaser until the Purchaser has paid their price to the Seller , but , even though title has not passed , the Seller shall be entitled to sue for their price once its payment has become due . |
| 6 | It is largely because the bran is stripped from white flour that our Western diet has become low in natural fibre content . |
| 7 | A fierce solidarity was forged of a kind that has become archaic in the west . |
| 8 | This transformation , so obvious in modern society , is the result of the fact that technique has become autonomous . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Plus , the form has become exhausted . |
| 10 | Sometimes competitors in the show ring find that their normally sensible horse has become anxious and irrational ; the reason often being because a horse nearby is a flashy appaloosa or tobiano ! |
| 11 | The word itself means ‘ blown out ’ , ‘ cool ’ , meaning that the fires of desire , hatred and illusion have been extinguished , the heat of desire has become cool . |
| 12 | ‘ Ethel , ’ continued Miss Hardbroom , ‘ just because you happen to be an excellent scholar and one of the most helpful members of my class , I do not expect you to lie your way out of a situation when it has become awkward . |
| 13 | Japan has become a leader of the Pacific area and to this extent cultivates close contacts not only with Southeast Asia , but also with Australasia , a valuable source of raw materials , where interest in Japan has become substantial . |
| 14 | Once loudly and publicly proclaimed , death has become private , secret , almost shameful : so much so that nobody of any age wants to talk about it . |
| 15 | The NHS was supposed to treat all equally but now it has become similar to the difference between first class and tourist class air travel . |
| 16 | POWELL : That — that nursery of traitors and nest of vipers. ( clears throat ) A phrase which has become classic if not an actual thing . |
| 17 | It is also the ordinary word for " marriage " in modern Nayar communities where property-owning has become individualised and most of the traditional taravad homesteads have disappeared . |
| 18 | Memory has become restricted and suffers from cultural prohibition . |
| 19 | Specac , the spectroscopic and optical accessories company , has become Graseby-Specac to echo its parent company 's name change from Cambridge Electronic Companies to Graseby , and is now part of the Electro-Optics group . |
| 20 | The global fishing industry of more than 1 million medium or large boats has become unprofitable , the FAO says , with costs of US$124,000 million and revenue of only US$70,000 million in 1990 , with much of the shortfall covered by state subsidies . |
| 21 | LANDLORD Roy Tolan has become obsessed with a new woman in his life — a glamorous ghost . |
| 22 | No , you 're just a pathetic monomaniac who 's lived too long and has become obsessed with the idea of making the entire planet suffer for an ancient wrong that was perpetrated by a mindless minority ! ’ |
| 23 | The use of names rather than arguments as ammunition has become noticeable in such exercises , on both sides of the Atlantic , as Chris Baldick remarks in a review of Frederick Crews 's Skeptical Engagements : |
| 24 | Gaminara draws only the most banal conclusions from his detailed subject matter and , by the end , the play ( his first for the stage ) has become contrived , sentimental and gratuitously violent . |
| 25 | It is believed to be one of the few parasites which has become free-living . |
| 26 | It 's not long before an ex who in reality was a size-12 middle manager who played badminton and cooked a moderately engaging moussaka has become Super Ex — the international top model and cordon bleu squash champion with a masters degree in astrophysics . |
| 27 | This measure may well have to be considered now ( as Washington is hinting ) , as it has become crystal-clear that the Bosnian war is being fomented by Milosevic and the extreme Serb leaders in Bosnia , and is primarily waged by the army . |
| 28 | If he does , it may signify that the cheek has become sore and the teeth need attention . |
| 29 | Though the odd player such as Dewi Morris , the England scrum- half , still has a hand-off , it has become rare enough to make the criticism of Wales 's Nigel Walker , the Olympic hurdler turned international rugby wing , sound almost like a phrase from another age . |
| 30 | A colourless gas with a faint tang , it can produce narcosis and even ( after a lengthy exposure at a concentration of 5 per cent or more ) unconsciousness and death , but it is as a greenhouse gas emitted in the course of producing man-made energy that it has become central to our end-of-century concerns . |