Example sentences of "[pers pn] be become a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've always got on well with adults , but it 's only now that I 'm starting to get on with my own generation , and I realise that I have to do that if I 'm to become a whole person . |
| 2 | I was becoming an old hand by now ; I was n't nearly as nervous as I had been the other times , even though the audience was twice the size . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're becoming a terrible bore , Johnny , ’ Bella said , a hint of irritation in her voice . |
| 4 | Now she 's married to a New York lawyer and she 's become an Orthodox Jewish wife . |
| 5 | I am resigned to being addressed by the new name of Pax-Wanxie , but if she is to become a mere conduit of the Paxford philosophy it will be a very great bore . |
| 6 | The set ends at just the point where she was becoming a fashionable figure and , eventually , a popular one on a wider scale ; by the end of the Forties , she must have been one of the most admired singers of her day . |
| 7 | He says that it has been the foundation of Europe 's post-war success , the implication being that we must adopt the same system in Britain if we are to become a modern , prosperous nation . |
| 8 | We are becoming a degenerate race , even in the simplest things . |
| 9 | We are becoming an ageing society . |
| 10 | so where on earth , where is the the er the proof that we 're becoming a classless society ? |
| 11 | They are becoming a laughing stock . |
| 12 | The Tamil Tigers , a separatist group in Sri Lanka , are suspects , since Mr Gandhi had complained that they were becoming a parallel government in Tamil Nadu . |
| 13 | When I heard reports of the changing physical shape of German women , that they were becoming a different breed of women we 'd been told from the old , rather heavy , erm motherly plain sort of woman who characterised Germany womanhood before the Second World War , well now we read that their shape and their weight and so on corresponds much more to French or British and American norms . |
| 14 | While Japanese computers were hardly a factor in the boom years , they were to become a major force in the 1980s . |
| 15 | Although it was clear that Poland would need massive industrialisation if it were to become a modern European nation , it was hampered in its efforts at every level by the legacy of partition . |
| 16 | If it were to become an actual consistent condition , the very purpose of life itself ( which is growth towards perfection through the struggle between opposites or growth towards total ‘ order ’ ) would be cancelled out and the evolutionary process would cease to be of significance . |
| 17 | Roger Kelly is convinced that there are enough people to invest in the centre : ‘ Five years ago this would have been a pipe-dream , but with the rise of the ethical investment movement it 's become a real possibility . |
| 18 | It 's become a major part of my job . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's become a big problem , bigger than just the problem facing us , ’ said a Williams team insider last night . |
| 20 | It 's become a life-long commitment , although I 'm not complaining . |
| 21 | And in recent weeks it 's become a daily chore , as more and more birds have been brought in from the nearby Gloucester Sharpness canal . |
| 22 | I just think it 's kinda funny , and it 's become an ongoing theme in my work . ’ |
| 23 | Even you must admit that it 's become an exciting and extremely important job over the last few years , certainly as far as Carlisle Flint is concerned ! ’ |
| 24 | But it 's becoming a major issue as landfill sites fill up . |
| 25 | Given the number of mergers that have happened over recent years , it 's becoming a rare event when a firm can celebrate its centenary with the same name it started out with . |
| 26 | It 's becoming a favourite pastime , combining the thrill of the chase with the joy of the bargain which is why we regularly try and bring you news of the latest openings . |
| 27 | ‘ Now it 's becoming a big sport here , ’ says Paul . |
| 28 | It 's the same with Prince — it 's great having a bit of rumpy pumpy on the TV with a few cheeky videos and lots of naughty bits , but it 's becoming a little standard . |
| 29 | Now it is becoming a powerful factor in the new , frenzied politics of Eastern Europe . |
| 30 | It means that the proletariat is leading the entire working nation behind it , that it is responsible for the development of the whole of society , that it is becoming a great collective organiser of the entire national economy , that the direction of development is not towards a widening of the gulf between the fundamental class ( the working class and peasantry ) and that things are not moving towards a ‘ third revolution ’ , etc . |