Example sentences of "[verb] becoming a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did her trick to catch the saint who avoided becoming a martyr . |
| 2 | Many elderly housebound people living alone feel the loss of their independence very keenly and fear becoming a burden to others . |
| 3 | Maybe I should consider becoming a Power Pack leader . |
| 4 | The programme reveals that the actor was a notable pianist and once considered becoming a concert pianist . |
| 5 | If you do n't and slalom continues to be so poorly attended it risks becoming a has-been sport . |
| 6 | The objective , in other words , was to avoid becoming a loser . |
| 7 | Here , as elsewhere , there are difficult questions to be answered : whether membership of a society should involve a positive duty to take care of one 's body for the general social good , either to avoid becoming a burden on other members of the community or even to preserve oneself as a positive contributor to that community . |
| 8 | He is so afraid of being controlled himself ( being done to as he himself does ) that he continues to control others to avoid becoming a victim himself and so having to face humiliation . |
| 9 | Under certain conditions these salts will be deposited becoming a type of dirt . |
| 10 | Next , for a short time , he fancied becoming a baseball player . |
| 11 | When I first started becoming a woman on playing on the beach and I ran home petrified . |
| 12 | Did you ever contemplate becoming a doctor ? |
| 13 | Union with God for the Christian does not mean recognising oneself as part of God ( ‘ self-realisation ’ ) but means becoming a member of God 's family by adoption . |
| 14 | What does becoming a tax exile involve ? |
| 15 | He contemplated becoming a teacher and giving up acting , except he could not shake off the desire . |
| 16 | After the war he contemplated becoming a District Officer in Rhodesia but decided to rejoin the Consular Service . |
| 17 | She even considered becoming a nun . |