Example sentences of "becoming [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its origin , and its method of financing , almost inevitably led to it becoming effectively a horse infirmary . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's becoming just a fashion statement . |
| 3 | Being middle class was becoming more a matter of consumption than of belief . |
| 4 | He saved enough to buy a small hat-shop in Belfast , installed a manageress and on the slender profits of this enterprise read medicine at Queen 's University , Belfast , becoming later a consultant physician in Sydney , Australia . |
| 5 | becoming later a Doctor of Divinity and a distinguished Minister of the United Church of Canada . |
| 6 | Increasing cultural complexities suggest that Lodge 's image of the crossroads might even be brought up to date — and given , appropriately , a faintly foreign flavour — by the possibility of post-imperial Britain becoming increasingly a sort of spaghetti junction , heterogeneous styles and registers meeting , intertwining , competing or coalescing . |
| 7 | He was involved in the same heavy round of duties as soon as he returned to London , however , and honorary positions were becoming increasingly a burden . |
| 8 | In both the government and the opposition press in Morocco , the situation in the Western Sahara was meanwhile becoming increasingly a focus for nationalist commentary . |
| 9 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 10 | The sound of the water had become muted ; like background music , it receded from consciousness , becoming almost a part of the stillness and the silence . |
| 11 | Belinda had worked very hard indeed for nearly twelve years since her mother 's death , becoming almost a mother herself to the twin boys and doing as much of the cooking and housekeeping as she could between school and homework . |
| 12 | In fact , in 1989 the Abbey National Building Society became a public limited company and thereby ceased to be a building society , becoming instead a bank . |
| 13 | LABOUR 'S policy review was a symbol of the party renewing itself and becoming again a force for change , Tom Sawyer , deputy general secretary of Nupe , the public sector workers ' union , said at the start of four days of debate on the review reports . |