Example sentences of "[is] [adv] become a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beset by illness — with Gooch himself the most damaging victim of the last few weeks — and bemused by Indian spin , England must pull themselves together if a bitterly disappointing tour is not to become a total disaster . |
| 2 | Its aim , he says , is not to become a commercial body but to point users towards products and technologies that support their interests . |
| 3 | Council housing is rapidly becoming a residual service for specific categories of clients : the poor , the unemployed , the elderly and the disabled . |
| 4 | A Workshop Day at Marlow is also becoming a regular event , with local Teachers taking sessions throughout the day . |
| 5 | It is also becoming a substantial force in team sports , with virtually all UK First Division soccer clubs using it . |
| 6 | Tourism is also becoming an important component of developing nations ' economy because it is a source of foreign income . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The hygiene control and safe handling of waste is now becomeing a legal obligation and should be a top priority for all catering businesses . |
| 9 | The Enterprise Lecture is now becoming a major event in the University calendar and this year 's lecture was an outstanding success . |
| 10 | This article gives an overview of SCOTVEC 's current position on quality assurance , as it relates to workplace assessment , which is now becoming an important feature of SVQs . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's now become an annual event , one year here , the next in Barrow , where we played recently . |
| 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 | The so-called ‘ one-door approach ’ has many attractions in what is fast becoming an over-crowded arena and a strategic , national approach to export promotion is to be welcomed . |
| 18 | The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant , and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence … would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness , of shattered surface , of climatic excess , as to threaten the depravation , barbarism , and perhaps even extinction of the species . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A TELEVISION drive to persuade Britain 's seven million schoolkids to swap their lunch boxes for school dinners is about to become a real choker . |
| 21 | The channel tunnel is about to become a major part of the United Kingdom infrastructure . |
| 22 | Muller , however , is surprised to find himself in the company of players he once idolised , and he has yet to recognise that he is about to become a similar figure . |
| 23 | Japan turns out a vast number of graduates every year , but it begins to look as if the unthinkable in Tokyo , graduate unemployment , is about to become a serious problem : Fujitsu Ltd says it plans to slash the number of new hirings next spring to less than a seventh of this year 's figure — just 300 engineers , and , for the first year since its founding in 1935 , will take on no staff in its sales and administrative departments ; it will add 2,200 new staff to its 52,000 base this year compared with 3,000 in 1992 and nearly 4,000 in 1991 . |
| 24 | Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus . |
| 25 | Handsome Costa hunk Jesse Birdsall , who has only had eyes for the girls up to now , is about to become a bi-sexual victim of the killer virus . |
| 26 | PETER REID is about to become a vital part of the new Manchester City regime by teaming up again with Howard Kendall . |
| 27 | Bell 's absence leaves Durham without three of last season 's stalwarts as Billingham 's Nick Walton is about to become an assistant professional at Barnard Castle and Darlington 's John Howson has retired from county golf . |