Example sentences of "becoming [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , though independent , these objects of his attention coalesced , inevitably , in the act of painting when all the discrete , scattered moments , followed up , caught on the wing , suspended or elusive , were in process of becoming the picture on the easel . |
| 2 | The new Fianna Fáil Party , under the leadership of Eamon de Valera , was intent on asserting Irish independence to the full by leaving the empire and providing a president to replace the monarchy , thus becoming the Republic of Ireland . |
| 3 | Professor Dudek had envisaged the series coming out in paper covers ( the format that was just becoming the way to the mass market ) ; Leonard ensured that it went into hard ; Dudek had not meant the books to be prestigious in format but vehicles of introduction ; Leonard saw to it that his book could stand alongside the best that there were from both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 4 | The the units have an ambience of comfort which is well matched by the refreshment-trolley service which is becoming the norm on the services on which these Super-Sprinters run . |
| 5 | Jan Murray , the England left wing , avoids becoming the filling in a Finnish defenders ' sandwich during the UEFA Women 's Championship Group Three game at Brentford yesterday . |
| 6 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed in August . |
| 7 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed by the League 's president , Bill Fox , in August . |
| 8 | In February , the Stuttgart Classic takes its place along with Hamburg as one of the $1m ( £625,000 ) stops on the ATP Tour , adding to a growing list of reasons why West Germany is rapidly becoming the focal point of world tennis . |
| 9 | In becoming the first country to shun the Springboks , the Welsh not only turned about face from their decision of five years ago , but also brought the advent of a professional rugby circus in the Republic that bit closer . |
| 10 | On Friday he played the match of his life to beat the defending champion , Jahangir Khan , in five games , and at 6-0 up in the final game on Saturday he was not far from becoming the first player to beat both Khans in the same tournament . |
| 11 | Mr Nyers and his reformists now stand a very good chance of becoming the biggest party in the new parliament . |
| 12 | MEGIDDO , Israel ( Reuter ) — A Syrian air force major yesterday landed a Soviet-made MiG-23 fighter in Israel and an army statement said he requested political asylum , becoming the first Arab airman to do so in more than 20 years . |
| 13 | He has now scored 302 in 18 internationals , has an average of 17.5 per game since becoming the No. 1 kicker , and goes into tomorrow 's game having stretched his top-grade tally to 2,533 in 188 matches . |
| 14 | DURHAM WASPS ' dream of becoming the first British League team to win a European game abroad ended in a 10-1 defeat here last night after Robert Herckerrath had opened the scoring for Gunco Pandas of Rotterdam in the second minute . |
| 15 | The Trust looks like becoming the premier wilderness organisation in Scotland . |
| 16 | Since many of the evangelicals shared Billy Graham 's opinions and valued his methods and saw the good which he did , his article stirred wrath among them and fear about the Bishop of Durham becoming the Archbishop of York . |
| 17 | He held a similar position at Tamla Motown before becoming the head of press at EMI Records . |
| 18 | Charged with the task of discovering signing and developing artists , the A&R staff are the first point of contact with a record company for the new acts who are intent on becoming the superstars of tomorrow . |
| 19 | Anthropology for Eliot did not remake the myths , but showed how they had , while becoming the possessions of high culture , transmitted and not entirely transmuted primitive origins . |
| 20 | Murder mystery star Angela Lansbury is well on her way to becoming the highest paid female star on US television . |
| 21 | Consequently , RSI is also becoming the subject of heated debate within the medical profession . |
| 22 | In a step-by-step assault on the softly-softly approach to Europe being peddled by Downing Street , the former Conservative cabinet minister also made it clear that Mrs Thatcher 's hard-line opposition to the concept of monetary union with the other 11 EC nations was jeopardising the chances of London becoming the base for a European central bank . |
| 23 | Mr Vaclav Havel , the Czechoslovak opposition leader , and the still ruling Communist Party were immersed in crisis talks on the shape of a new coalition government as the prospect of Mr Havel becoming the next president appeared to strengthen . |
| 24 | MR VACLAV Havel , the Czechoslovak opposition leader , and the still ruling Communist Party were immersed in crisis talks on the shape of a new coalition government late last night as the prospect of Mr Havel becoming the next president appeared to strengthen . |
| 25 | EAST Germany 's vast security police apparatus , once a fearsome state within a state , looks like becoming the next centre of Stalinist power to fall to the country 's ‘ people power ’ revolution . |
| 26 | He did not believe that ‘ this piece of tinkering by the Government will stop Britain becoming the dump of Europe in the 1990s . ’ |
| 27 | APROJECTED surge in strikes at the Department of Employment could lead to the Employment Secretary 's own backyard becoming the testing ground for his Employment Bill . |
| 28 | It identified women , the supposedly better-off Southerners , and AB social groupings as becoming the most enthusiastic practitioners , and that regionally the keenest DIYers come from the South-west and the least keen from Lancashire . |
| 29 | For those excluded from status and opportunity ( blacks , women , gays etc ) being strong , becoming the subject of your life , these are crucial goals . |
| 30 | And the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 looked so very like the preliminaries to the Third World War that it led to Eisenhower again becoming the Allied Supreme Commander , Europe , with Montgomery as his deputy in November to prepare resistance to a probable Soviet invasion across the Iron Curtain . |