Example sentences of "it [was/were] becoming [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her husband 's jealous nature made it difficult for her to talk to any of the customers for very long without him questioning her , and it was becoming worse lately . |
| 2 | It was becoming dark and I realized that I had lost my way . |
| 3 | Moves for peace had begun as early as summer 1904 , when it was becoming apparent that the struggle would be long drawn out . |
| 4 | It was becoming apparent that some of the companies which had acted as intermediaries in the sale of the land to Equidesa were also under investigation in connection with a fraud involving the sale of value added tax ( IVA-impuesto de valor agregado ) invoices . |
| 5 | It was becoming battered and shapeless . |
| 6 | Even for a boy , it was becoming rare , by the latter part of the nineteenth century , that he had fully mastered the trade . |
| 7 | In the distance over the autobahn it was becoming hazy . |
| 8 | Originally a resident of Celtic Crescent , he had found that even with the occupancy of two adjoining houses there it was becoming impossible for him to accommodate his growing family along with the near and distant relations from Dublin and England who availed of his hospitality in a constant procession . |
| 9 | It was becoming monotonous . |
| 10 | Like the working class , it was becoming integrated into an increasingly dynamic and self-confident civil society . |
| 11 | It was becoming easy enough to find biochemical changes that occurred when an animal learned ; the problem was to show that such changes were really part of the memory-making process . |
| 12 | We were still leading the championship , but it was becoming fraught . |
| 13 | It was becoming difficult to put together a Gentlemen 's eleven worthy of the name . |
| 14 | It was becoming difficult to remember how it had looked fifteen months ago , before Amy and Timmy had entered his life ; the homemade shelves of orange boxes ranged against the wall which had held his books , the two mugs , two plates and one soup bowl , which had been adequate for his needs , neatly stacked in the cupboard , the excessive cleanliness of the small kitchen and lavatory , his bed smooth under the coverlet of knitted woollen squares , the single hanging cupboard which had been sufficient for his meagre wardrobe , his other possessions boxed and tidily stowed in the chest under the seat . |
| 15 | The day was overcast and it was becoming difficult to see what he was typing , so , about noon , when imagination began to fail him , he walked up to the house to inquire from Dorothy whether Isobel would mind if he had better lighting installed in the garage , provided he paid far it . |
| 16 | By 1976 it was becoming difficult to ring changes on the " Pure Gold " theme and , Salmon adds , " the public was becoming over-familiar with the campaign and it was being copied by rivals . |
| 17 | Already it was becoming difficult to keep warm at night , and life aboard Water Gypsy seemed less appealing when you were cold and alone . |
| 18 | It was becoming obvious to us that Ralph was looking after David and we got hardly any money from the gigs . |
| 19 | At the same time , it was becoming obvious that between his two drivers , Dennis was favouring Prost . |
| 20 | By this time it was becoming obvious that in spite of the fact that the French were conveying the impression of a limited operation ‘ to restore order ’ ( which might be at least six months to a year ) they were hoping for more moderate Vietnamese leaders to emerge and , in the meantime , they would not after all negotiate with Ho Chi Minh . |
| 21 | It was becoming obvious that the French by themselves were quite incapable of making the economic and military effort to fight a decisive war even if , at this stage , such a thing had been possible . |
| 22 | By the later decades of the century it was becoming obvious that the numbers of many species were being rapidly diminished , and it was now regarded as ‘ unsporting ’ to amass the vast collections of trophies favoured by earlier hunters . |
| 23 | Because , as the creature swayed around in front of us , it was becoming obvious , even to the more short-sighted of the congregation , that we were looking at Leonard Pike . |
| 24 | The year 1962 had not been a good one for Macmillan : his domestic policies had started to go awry ; the application to join the EEC was unpopular ; his showing in the opinion polls had slumped to 36 per cent ; in July he had sacked one-third of his cabinet , fearing a revolt against his leadership ; in October he was seen to play little part in the Cuban missile crisis , in which Kennedy alone took the decisions that could have drawn Britain , whether she liked it or not , into nuclear war between the superpowers ; and in December it was becoming clear that de Gaulle was blocking the EEC entry negotiations . |
| 25 | It was becoming clear to me that agriculture and its problems were a key factor in demographic changes all over Peru . |
| 26 | During the final months of the peace Ballot campaign it was becoming clear that Mussolini was preparing to invade Abyssinia , and it was in relation to this danger that the issue of sanctions was generally debated . |
| 27 | It was becoming clear , at any rate to Griffith if to nobody else , that in a world where practical materials only reached a small and highly irregular fraction of the strength of their chemical bonds , the weakening mechanism , rather than the bond . |
| 28 | After a few sessions it was becoming clear that Henry 's impact on the scheme was reciprocal . |
| 29 | Even at the time that the White Paper was being issued in 1972 , it was becoming clear that the rapidly declining birth rate would have very serious repercussions for the colleges of education ; however , it was not until the decline began to steepen in the mid-1970s that the full implications were publicly announced by the DES . |
| 30 | Sometimes James 's accompanying letters were longer and more convoluted than the script changes , but it was becoming clear that the linking material would hinge around Joyce 's letters to her mother who , when Joyce was nineteen , had remarried and returned to America . |