1.   During these years race became the cultural flashpoint, and most political careers were founded on a rhetoric of purity and exclusion.

2.   The championship race has suddenly become wide open and Middlesbrough are poised to put pressure on the three leading teams.

3.   And his ambitious pursuit is unfolding at a moment when race has once more become a troublesome concern in filmland.

4.   And that race had become increasingly bitter.

5.   As time went on the race became extremely costly, imposing unbearable economic burdens, particularly on the Soviet Union.

6.   At the end, the handshake was as perfunctory, suggesting that the race had become nasty and would probably stay that way for the next three weeks.

7.   A legal battle ensued, and the race quickly became a national story in Hungary.

8.   A just-released New York poll shows the GOP race has become a dead heat.

9.   A possible downside of the early advertising in Washington is that the Senate race has not become as close as Sierra Club officials expected.

10.   About a month ago, the race became a sprint.