Sentence examples for has become mainly from inspiring English sources

Hale House in recent years has become mainly the recourse of imprisoned mothers eager to keep their children, although it continued to call the babies castoffs.

The VHS-format VCR, introduced in 1973, has become mainly a replacement-market, now that the average price is below $80, according to Tom Edwards, an analyst with NPD Intelect, a market research firm in Port Washington, N.Y.

The report, based on a six-month investigation by an expert panel, said the war "has become mainly about access, control and trade" of minerals, the most important being coltan.

The history chronicled here, to the extent it has reached the public record, has become mainly one of victories for the activists, visible in the community gardens that adorn every other block in the neighborhood and the squats that are now comfortable residences.

The presidency has become mainly an instrument of rooting out the least bit of doubt about our own supernatural capabilities in a disorderly and unpredictable world.

Currently in the UK NHS, paediatric surgery has become mainly restricted to tertiary centres, and hence with this move, the diagnostic capabilities and experts in paediatric surgical conditions are concentrated in tertiary centres.

Missionaries provided nearly all the education and health care available in the territories until the 1950s, but since then both have become mainly government responsibilities.

Whatever credit defaults are in theory, in practice they have become mainly side bets on whether some company, or some subprime mortgage-backed bond, some municipality, or even the United States government will go bust.

But by the 1920's, when scientists concluded that germs traveled from body to body, not via the floor boards, vacuums had become mainly for domestic aesthetics, she said.

Philip viewed his role and that of Spain essentially as that of defender of the Roman Catholic Church against the aggression of the heretics, an aggression that now seemed to have become mainly military and that consequently had to be met by military force.

But their reliance on the restaurants' own couriers mean that they are somewhat limited in their offering of cuisines and price points: they have become mainly associated in consumers' mind with relatively low-end takeaway food (pizza, burgers, Chinese, sushi etc).