In recent centuries their influence has become more subtle, but it is always there.

By this period, though, the influences had become regressive and conservative.

But recently, the Italian influence has become far more pronounced.

Certainly by the last third of the nineteenth century the influences were becoming more noted although they had always been there.

The public nature of the meeting may illustrate how tenuous the ministry's influence has become.

The influence on the music of this diversity has recently become more pronounced.

If the governor's influence had become dominant, the state's two Democratic senators could have lost any say in the appointments.

There he became the inspiring influence of a revival of church work.

The closer I came to the Greens, the stronger their mental influence became.

The influence of his teacher, very evident in these first works, became more diluted over the years.