Example sentences of "[be] [adv] become a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The space where the flowers had been soon became a thriving mass of weeds . |
| 2 | In other words , CD-ROMs are fast becoming a standard form of computer storage . |
| 3 | ‘ The hard truth is dental practices have cost too much money to run and are fast becoming a financial liability . |
| 4 | Magazines — deriving their name from the word in several languages for ‘ storehouses ’ — are increasingly becoming a recognised field for the collector . |
| 5 | The royal authority was being challenged not only by princes but by a growing menace of another kind , the increasing number of freelance soldiers , or routiers , who were gradually becoming a characteristic force in French society , reflecting the faltering grip of lawfully-established authority . |
| 6 | Council housing is rapidly becoming a residual service for specific categories of clients : the poor , the unemployed , the elderly and the disabled . |
| 7 | A Workshop Day at Marlow is also becoming a regular event , with local Teachers taking sessions throughout the day . |
| 8 | It is also becoming a substantial force in team sports , with virtually all UK First Division soccer clubs using it . |
| 9 | But they also need to improve the state 's port and other infrastructure if Yucatan is really to become a low-cost assembly centre for America 's east coast . |
| 10 | The hygiene control and safe handling of waste is now becomeing a legal obligation and should be a top priority for all catering businesses . |
| 11 | The Enterprise Lecture is now becoming a major event in the University calendar and this year 's lecture was an outstanding success . |
| 12 | erm And as I said , we 're trying to , not that I 'm giving the opposite view to Doctor Plumtree , as I said , we 're trying to fund the people on the front line , you know , the foresters in their back yard , as it were , we 're trying to preserve it , and we also feel we 're not being patronising , it 's not like we 're writing out a large cheque and saying ’ here you are ’ , we 're actually putting a lot of time and effort into this , I mean , it 's now become a full time job for me and certainly for Dave Kester , and all the other people working on it . |
| 13 | The growth in the installed base of IQs suggests that the device is fast becoming a viable platform for third-party publishing . |
| 14 | STIRLING is fast becoming a wired campus . |
| 15 | As things stand the division of money within the game is fast becoming a simple reflection of everyday life : a few get rich , the rest struggle along . |
| 16 | THE avenue to UEFA Cup qualification is fast becoming a blind alley for Hibs . |
| 17 | All right — I know I 'm exaggerating , but frankly it seems so trivial that it 's almost become a political version of the World Cup . |
| 18 | Though he was n't to know this , it was a gesture of defiance that was slowly becoming a sexual need . |
| 19 | I think a number of us were becoming very concerned indeed that this was eventually becoming a political area and this this is dealt with in this way |
| 20 | Many of the others — broke and sickened by the attitude of their non-refusenik colleagues , who included most of the staff of the Sun and the News of the World — experienced personal traumas as they struggled with the difficulties of what was obviously becoming a futile protest . |
| 21 | An apparent opportunity for , or at least inclination to , US participation in Vietnamese national affairs as suggested in Saigon was soon to become a recognized imperative in Washington : and when the French ministers arrived in October 1950 to ask how much could be expected from the US to avoid financial disaster it was the drain of resources in Vietnam as much as the problems of French rearmament in Europe which prompted a close examination of French budgetary as well as military plans . |
| 22 | The welfare of deaf people was thus becoming a grave concern to many people , and this led in 1911 to an important milestone being reached through the efforts of a wealthy merchant banker , a Mr. Leo Bonn , who was himself deaf . |
| 23 | The reclaiming of the trade by the men was nevertheless to become a permanent reality , as an editorial in The Vote had correctly predicted.73 It is possible that if the war had not intervened , the men would in any case have been able to secure the prolonging of the ban on women beyond June 1916 . |
| 24 | Rock became aware that the thrilling , magical father , who had taken his young son backstage , on the road , drinking , water-skiiing , was gradually becoming a resentful tyrant . |
| 25 | By the time Tony Crosland became Secretary of State ( following Michael Stewart , Labour 's first Secretary of State for Education ) he was overcoming his initial resistance to the binary idea , and was quickly to become a firm advocate . |
| 26 | By then Europe was clearly becoming a single State-system . |
| 27 | He was later to become a top BBC foreign correspondent , newsreader and co-presenter of Radio 4 's Today . |
| 28 | The freshly unveiled Natal anthem ‘ 15 Men of the Last Outpost ’ , a folksy ballad , was unwittingly to become a fitting epitaph for not only Natal but for nearly every other South African side that took the field against either set of Antipodeans . |
| 29 | The funeral was now becoming a public display of private wealth — a statement of status — rather than a dignified journey to the grave , and there were any number of tradesmen in the private sector eager to cater for the demand and , thereby , to profit from it . |
| 30 | The move was provoked by evidence that Venezuela was fast becoming a major centre for the laundering of drug profits and the storage and shipment of cocaine abroad , especially to growing markets in Europe . |