1.   The main point is that the clash procedure becomes an end in itself.

2.   When however it is remembered that sugar was bought in loaves, the whole procedure becomes logical.

3.   Subsequently, guidelines concerning cardiopulmonary resuscitation have become widespread as the procedure has become more familiar.

4.   In clinical practice a new procedure becomes accepted treatment when it is offered by a critical mass of physicians or centres.

5.   As the search-space gets larger, more and more sophisticated searching procedures become necessary.

6.   Effective searching procedures become, when the search-space is sufficiently large, indistinguishable from true creativity.

7.   And until birth control procedures become universally accepted and effective, desperate families will always need abortion as an escape hatch.

8.   Before the new procedure became available, Degen would have faced an operation in which she would have been put to sleep and an incision made into her breast.

9.   But for many companies competing for this business, the procedure has become assembly-line simple.

10.   Even that procedure has become less daunting, Lodge said.