Example sentences of "becoming [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the interesting new question is whether Lynagh 's decision to play the closed Australian season with the Benetton club in Italy will prevent him from becoming the new Wallaby skipper . |
| 2 | I like using it , as do many other people , and it seems to be becoming the new industry standard . |
| 3 | In December the following year the firm 's name was altered from Philip Rundell to Rundell & Bridge upon John Bridge [ q.v. ] becoming the new partner . |
| 4 | Where Newco acquires the business and assets directly , then prima facie the Transfer of Undertakings ( Protection of Employment ) Regulations 1981 will " preserve " employees ' contracts of employment on the same terms and conditions , with Newco becoming the new employer . |
| 5 | It can also lead to the efficacy of our advice becoming the burning issue of discussion . |
| 6 | He found himself becoming the emotional prop of the marriage . |
| 7 | For Vol'sky , interviewed in the press , the whole area was in danger of becoming the Soviet Union 's ‘ home-grown Lebanon ’ . |
| 8 | We prefer OS/2 , because it 's a better operating system , and it is becoming the preferred choice for large commercial users , but Windows is most popular for the standalone . ’ |
| 9 | In a game that 's becoming the ultimate team sport , rivalling American football in the search for statistical truths , Campese seems increasingly to operate on a track of his own , to his own individual creed . |
| 10 | The world — and especially the empirical ( the sensate ) world — is becoming the prime focus of attention . |
| 11 | If you compare when we first came to Harlow , which is only twenty years ago , the possession of a television set , erm was only just becoming the normal thing |
| 12 | There is some danger of this position becoming the only way that you can fly the model , with other positions or attitudes becoming increasingly difficult . |
| 13 | International Telecom Japan Inc says that it intends to start a leased line service between Japan and Moscow this summer , becoming the only alternative on the route to Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp : it has teamed up with Russian satellite services company RSCC . |
| 14 | If Shadows and would-be Shadows started behaving like members of a government , there 'd be a greater chance of them becoming the real thing . |
| 15 | He also achieves a subtle contrast between the sensuous country exteriors and the darkened studio — every camera movement is beautiful and necessary and the playing fastidious , with Mr Piccoli virtually becoming the obsessed artist before the viewer 's eyes . |
| 16 | But if Her Majesty is putting her hopes in Prince William becoming the perfect monarch , I feel she is being rather over-optimistic . |
| 17 | After the end of the war Balivanich expanded as a ‘ military zone ’ , becoming the southern island 's administrative centre ; headquarters of Comhairle nan Eilean , the Outer Hebrides local government agency . |
| 18 | In an announcement published on 28 August 1991 , the PT expressed the intention of becoming the political organisation of the trade unions . |
| 19 | Moreover , MDC 's relatively modest housing programme for the initial area , its mixture of public and private provision and the fact that it has not displaced existing residents prevented housing becoming the political minefield for MDC that it was for LDDC . |
| 20 | The Trust looks like becoming the premier wilderness organisation in Scotland . |
| 21 | ‘ It is no wonder we are becoming the laughing stock of the world . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It is no wonder we are becoming the laughing stock of the world , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Days of wine and roses , and wild , wild parties with Devlin , Gittes and fellow nightowl Harry Dean Stanton — another of his big buddies from acting class who remained a friend and co-star for ever — became temporarily less important to him and , for a couple of years , he settled into the life of a happily married man , with Sandra seemingly intent on becoming the loving wife at home . |
| 24 | Would she herself end up like that , if she achieved her ambition of becoming the managing editor of a magazine ? |
| 25 | By refusing office , Labour would lose all the parliamentary advantages it had gained by becoming the official Opposition in 1922 ; its position in the country might be put back by a decade . |
| 26 | Faced with a collapsing economy and the prospect of becoming the major player in a new government next year , the ANC 's national executive committee said it would call for an end to economic sanctions as soon as there was agreement with the government on dates for an all-racial election and for the establishment of an interim government of national unity . |
| 27 | This proportion will change with gas becoming the major energy export in the early 1990s . |
| 28 | Foreign trade responded to the opportunities opened up by the outlets to the Baltic and later the Black Sea , grain becoming the major export . |
| 29 | The chronic trade deficits have resulted in the USA becoming the major debtor country in the sense that other countries ' savings have flowed to the USA , attracted by relatively high rates of interest and the apparent security of investment in the world 's most powerful economy . |
| 30 | The Labor leader 's re-election ‘ has guaranteed that the nation is on the way to becoming the Federal Republic of Australia under a new flag , ’ the newspaper said . |