Example sentences of "become an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an extremely good chance of this class becoming an official class of the Newcastle College of Arts and Technology in September 1992 if sufficient students come forward . |
| 2 | At what point erm did i er did it become an official dispute , how how at the point of becoming an official dispute ? |
| 3 | It was becoming an industrialised society constituted by highly impersonal secondary relations . |
| 4 | Peasant farmer weeps as he alleges that ‘ blood test at hotel ’ led to him becoming an unwilling kidney donor Turk tells of transplant ‘ theft ’ . |
| 5 | His argument is that the penetration of capitalism into the countryside leads to the articulation of the capitalist mode with the subsistence economy , which in turn leads to the diversification of the village economy , with wage migration becoming an increasing part of rural life . |
| 6 | Water erosion , whereby rain washes the topsoil off hillsides , is becoming an increasing problem in the United Kingdom , worsened by high-gear agriculture and drainage . |
| 7 | An accompanying central government preoccupation about local government in this period was the fact that it was becoming an increasing spender ( not surprisingly , in the light of central government 's expectations of it in areas like education , personal social services and housing ) . |
| 8 | Moreover , the establishment of the right of carers to separate assessment under the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 has formalized what was already becoming an increasing emphasis in social work practice . |
| 9 | Two-phase flow — the phenomenon involving the combined flow of gas and liquid through a pipeline at different rates — is becoming an increasing common issue in process plant . |
| 10 | The Japanese were successfully entering into many of the most sensitive markets in the EC ( e.g. cars , consumer electronic equipment , computing equipment ) , and the NICs were becoming an increasing threat to many of the industries of the member states . |
| 11 | City centre explosions , such a feature of daily life in Northern Ireland , are becoming an increasing threat to mainland Britain , according to army bomb disposal experts . |
| 12 | ‘ Glue sniffing is becoming an increasing problem in the town . |
| 13 | Could I please quote from the Bargaining Report Document dated twenty seventh of April nineteen ninety three which says , and I quote , works councils , elected bodies representing the whole workforce are becoming an increasing interest to the U K trade unionists and this par this in part because of the growing awareness of industrial relation structures in the rest of the E C. |
| 14 | ‘ There are ways , are there not , of avoiding becoming an unsupported mother , just as there are ways of avoiding becoming unemployed ? |
| 15 | Captain Kirk will end his boldly going where no man has gone before by becoming an intergalactic monk . |
| 16 | Merely giving management its ‘ marching orders ’ proved insufficient to ensure that the principal economic function of producing goods and services was carried out efficiently and without becoming an additional strain on state finances . |
| 17 | These represent the first steps towards AEA becoming an international business . |
| 18 | A brickie does not college N B Qs he needs to build his first house and first novel and immediately becoming an international best seller . |
| 19 | He , after all , was a member of an unbeaten Edinburgh Academy XV as a 15-year-old before devoting himself to athletics en route to becoming an international sprinter . |
| 20 | But in retrospect , with no immediate prospect of a plutonium-fed power station becoming an economic proposition even now ( decades later ) , the ‘ credit ’ is meaningless . |
| 21 | SAVE believes that modern architecture and planning is producing an environment that is not only a visual disgrace — a judgment with which future generations may conceivably disagree — but is becoming an economic and ecological nonsense as well . |
| 22 | Clearly Romania was well on its way to becoming an economic super-success and anyone with funds to spare was well advised to lend them to Ceauşescu . |
| 23 | By the later thirteenth century , Aquitaine , like Brittany and to some extent the comté of Flanders , showed every sign of becoming an autonomous principality . |
| 24 | If it were kept isolated during the critical period nothing would prevent it from becoming an affectionless psychopath for the remainder of its life . |
| 25 | Are in the final throes of becoming an all Fokker F-27 Friendship operation , with their last example , former Trans Canada Airlines ( CF-TDO ) and RCAF ( FL615 ) Dakota III ZS-DRJ up for sale , having been with them , on and off , since 1963 . |
| 26 | It 's becoming an all to familar story for the police , in some parts of the region car related crimes have reached epidemic porportions , in the Thames Valley region for instance , there were 40,000 car- related crimes last year . |
| 27 | We must leave the Tyrone family in their foggy mist and emerge ourselves learning , as with King Lear , that an individual 's suffering can rarely avoid becoming an entire family 's tragedy . |
| 28 | One of the themes in developing a mode of thinking about nursing and its practice must surely be preventing the potential problem of accident from becoming an actual one . |
| 29 | In this respect if in no other the concept of the family as a more or less stable institution is becoming an impossible one . |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't join G9 in the expectation of becoming an unthinking zombie . |