Example sentences of "becoming [adj] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hospital consultant John Miller said : ‘ There are children in that family who were becoming fond of the baby . |
| 2 | They had two sons , Thomas , who died at Leghorn , and Edward ( c .1681–1734 ) , who carried on the family business , becoming free of the Masons ' Company in 1702 and master in 1719 . |
| 3 | Paul , who may himself have been trained as a silver-chaser , was apprenticed in 1784 to William Rock of Westminster , another victualler , becoming free of the Vintners ' Company in 1791 . |
| 4 | Was he really becoming fonder of the girl than he realised ? |
| 5 | It can be overcome only by constant and constantly renewed efforts to disrupt the reified structure of existence by concretely relating to the concretely manifested contradictions of the total development , by becoming conscious of the immanent meanings of these contradictions for total development . |
| 6 | Marr continuously denied stories that he was becoming tired of the attention Morrissey received . |
| 7 | Blake was becoming tired of the stranger 's mood swings . |
| 8 | Rather than being the workshop of the world , Britain was becoming one of the world 's secretarial colleges , with priority given to non-manual clerical and service occupation . |
| 9 | Here is conscientious Boris Nikolayevich , completing his graduate dissertation in one month rather than the usual five and then refusing the automatic promotion for which this would normally have qualified him , resolving instead to spend a year laying bricks , mixing concrete and becoming one of the boys . |
| 10 | Lord Cranborne , son of the sixth Marquess of Salisbury , had sat for the family constituency of south Dorset for eight years : his grandfather , ‘ Bobbety ’ the fifth Marquess , had served eleven and a half years as an MP before joining the peerage and becoming one of the most influential party men in the fifties . |
| 11 | His background with the round ball has stood him in good stead in becoming one of the country 's leading goal-kickers . |
| 12 | All in all , it 's young , it 's fun , it 's what life is all about and it 's fast becoming one of the top resorts in this part of the world . |
| 13 | The Wise 's period saw a number of dramatic changes ; Days Mill was enlarged and updated , becoming one of the few in the Nailsworth area to boast the new power-looms . |
| 14 | Ben Johnson improved in four years from being a skinny undersized 15-year-old to running the 100 metres in 10.25 and becoming one of the world 's leading juniors — on nothing more exceptional than plenty of food , regular training and competitive instinct . |
| 15 | But that fact , and its potentially unappetising formula of talking heads , have not prevented this series from becoming one of the most valuable of recent innovations in the public discussion of medical issues . |
| 16 | And as the mood of British music snapped from one paradigm to another , from lush Baroque to angry garage , he 'd forced and battered Must n't Grumble into becoming one of the hottest New Wave or punk bands around . |
| 17 | The movie opened on 19 December 1973 to less-than-glowing reviews , although it made over $22.5 million , becoming one of the year 's top moneymakers . |
| 18 | HIRE a gardener and avoid becoming one of the 30 people the Consumers ' Association estimates will be killed in gardening accidents this year , or one of the more than 30,000 injured . |
| 19 | PIETER Muller read the messages of hate , shrugged and got on with the job of becoming one of the best centres in the world . |
| 20 | Ms Coward graduated from Colchester Institute becoming one of the country 's few gemmologists and a fellow of the Gemmological Association . |
| 21 | In the autumn of 1982 John was transferred from Coningsby to become Commanding Officer at Wildenrath in West Germany , and so the Corsair was moved from Coningsby to Duxford , becoming one of the first privately-owned warbirds to be based there . |
| 22 | It 's good to see some sound sense being talked about the Mar Lodge estate controversy by the John Muir Trust , fast becoming one of the foremost environment bodies in Scotland . |
| 23 | Lowe was in Auckland promoting a video of his life and times — inevitably referring to him as a ‘ master coach ’ which is now becoming one of the more boring sporting clichés — and was asked what he thought of the All Blacks ' failure to bring home the Cup . |
| 24 | This it did for all but 150 years , becoming one of the best known and best loved of all our rural branch lines . ’ |
| 25 | The railway is fast becoming one of the major tourist attractions in the area of South Wales , although just boasting its English connections being in the county of Gloucestershire . |
| 26 | Right from indie godhead McGee 's Madonna invite to the fact that Therapy ? — once a hopeless band from Belfast — are on the verge of becoming one of the three most important new bands in Britain . |
| 27 | All the intriguing questions which were asked at the time , not least as to why she contributed , either deliberately or through naivety , to it becoming one of the sporting mysteries of the year in the first place , will have to remain unanswered . |
| 28 | Durie , who at 31 , is fast becoming one of the foremost ambassadors for the sport in this country , and known for her passion and honesty for the British game , went on to give some basic practical advice to the enthusiastic youngsters . |
| 29 | ARCO invented an imaginative solution to that challenge and , for five successive years from 1988 , bought results by paying for leading collectors and senior museum officials to visit the fair and a city which was becoming one of the most fashionable capitals in Europe . |
| 30 | It is sad that , as far as disturbed children are concerned , it is also becoming one of the most dangerous . |