Example sentences of "was become " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the Regency period the pub was becoming a far more attractive proposition for the government , too . |
| 2 | This was becoming unseemly . |
| 3 | Much as poetry was becoming a part of him , his most natural form of self-expression , and the one that reached him first , was music ; side-by-side they were to advance with him throughout his developing days and early professional life . |
| 4 | Perhaps the choice was his way of declaring his consuming interest in life , not learning , which was becoming an obsession . |
| 5 | Here they gave poetry readings in the 800-seat auditorium ; a measure of the man he was becoming and of the distinguished company he kept . |
| 6 | Public opinion was becoming more concentrated . |
| 7 | But as the 1980s progressed , the Brick Lane site was becoming more valuable as a potential development area than as a brewery . |
| 8 | East German opposition leaders said the atmosphere was becoming explosive , and appealed to the public to avoid violence during East Germany 's fortieth anniversary celebrations at the end of the week , which President Mikhail Gorbachev is due to attend . |
| 9 | Economists yesterday expressed concern that the increase in prices was becoming more generalised . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In his wish for a healthy city he was becoming more and more aware of rural virtues and leaning towards the sort of suspect organicism which would be developed with a vengeance by Leavis . |
| 12 | The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board was a public-trust authority which was becoming rapidly insolvent , yet there was no way in law in which it could go into liquidation . |
| 13 | This author was Lewis Henry Morgan , and Marx 's reference to him in such a letter shows how his concern with anthropology was becoming central . |
| 14 | We were still leading the championship , but it was becoming fraught . |
| 15 | It was becoming difficult to put together a Gentlemen 's eleven worthy of the name . |
| 16 | Being middle class was becoming more a matter of consumption than of belief . |
| 17 | Again Wexford was becoming bemused by the colours , by the seductive spectrum that caught and held his eye wherever he looked . |
| 18 | It is noteworthy that this type of conversion scheme was becoming fashionable in London , but the great difference was that flat prices in the capital were , and remain , very much higher that those applying in Manchester . |
| 19 | The pain was becoming so intense that by the end of the day she could hardly grip her scissors . |
| 20 | It had been a preoccupation for several years , but now it was becoming intense . |
| 21 | The Prince was becoming enthused , and as he grew more confident about the area he had targeted and took on more projects , he began to make increasingly serious and significant speeches . |
| 22 | Once again there seemed to be no one around the Prince and Princess with the foresight to see that the situation was becoming seriously out of control . |
| 23 | Over half the exhibitors were in their thirties and forties , an age that was becoming of increasing significance to the Prince . |
| 24 | The resulting Palache Report , named after its chairman and published by the CFC in 1944 , articulated Balcon 's concern that the British cinema was becoming a ‘ channel for disseminating the ideas and aspirations , no matter how worthy in themselves , of one or two dominating personalities in this country , ’ and backed his view that the British industry should concentrate on a regular output of low-budget , authentically British films . |
| 25 | While Gainsborough was becoming enfeebled , nothing was being done outside Ealing and Independent Producers to bring on talent or set up new centres of production strength . |
| 26 | ‘ I was becoming a prisoner of myself , ’ he says frankly , ‘ a prisoner of beautiful jackets . |
| 27 | ‘ I was becoming a prisoner of myself — a prisoner of beautiful jackets |
| 28 | Sir Leon , who was giving the Grenada annual address in London yesterday , said that German reunification was becoming inevitable . |
| 29 | It was becoming obvious to us that Ralph was looking after David and we got hardly any money from the gigs . |
| 30 | It was becoming something more than just a folk club . |