Example sentences of "becoming [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Government is becoming sicker by the day . |
| 2 | It may ensure that , beneath the new uniform , our function remains in effect little different from the former ‘ ambulance service ’ ( Golby and Gulliver 1979 ) instead of increasingly becoming that of ‘ consultants in road-safety ’ . |
| 3 | It is initially flanked to the north by the church and to the south by gault-brick houses until it reaches the shop building ( now an office ) at No 9 ; it then changes character dramatically becoming lined with gaily colour-washed Victorian terraced houses , reached by short flights of stone steps with iron balustrades and usually bright with flowers and shrubs . |
| 4 | Very Cocteau , said Wilkie , and Alexander buttoned his head very firmly into his Orphic helmet , thus becoming deaf to Frederica 's brightness and absurd to look at , globular white anonymity above the beautiful , clean , white-clothed , untouchable long body . |
| 5 | Window displays were becoming controversial within the company ; Laura liked to see windows full of antiques and atmosphere , but increasingly found herself at loggerheads with more prosaic minds who wanted products and price-tags . |
| 6 | John Keats called it ‘ negative capability ’ and it is akin to Ernest Hemingway 's ‘ becoming strong in the broken places ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ The purchaser hereby covenants with the vendor by way of indemnity only that the purchaser and the persons deriving title under him will henceforth and at all times duly pay all rents becoming due under the lease and observe and perform all covenants agreements and conditions therein contained on the part of the tenant or persons deriving title under it to be observed and performed and also will at all times keep the vendor its successors in title and assigns effectively indemnified against all proceedings costs claims expenses and liabilities in respect thereof . |
| 8 | My ugliness is becoming strange to me . ’ |
| 9 | He is the one who has reacted to success by becoming obsessive about peace and quiet , about making time to read books and see friends . |
| 10 | The last of them , before becoming extinct between the Permian and Triassic periods , were extremely large members of the labyrinthodont group . |
| 11 | A biologist at Cornell University , Quentin Wheeler , has warned that large numbers of insect species are becoming extinct without ever having been studied , due in part to a shortage of entomologists . |
| 12 | Note the environmental connotations of the idea of game becoming scarce as the result of human misconduct ; the notion that human transgressions can upset the overall balance of nature ( see Nelson , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | Matsutakes and chanterelles need undisturbed forest , something that is becoming scarce in the much-logged north-west . |
| 14 | Some plants and animals are becoming scarce in the intensely farmed parts of East Lothian but here is a chance to ensure that you will see them . |
| 15 | RIGHT Regular exercise off the leash will help to prevent a young dog from becoming destructive around the home . |
| 16 | But that made it no less a dire experience for those who found their world gradually being pressurized , slowly becoming conditioned by a series of events beginning with the familiar friendly knock on the door — as dramatized in Thames Television 's play Not Waving But Drowning , produced and directed by Polly Bide , based on a real-life case history . |
| 17 | EastEnders dipped to 5.5 million in its early days with Michelle becoming pregnant by Dirty Den before things improved . |
| 18 | When he got through and began to speak he cheered up as he laughed and talked away , before becoming depressed at the end of the call . |
| 19 | ‘ The second scandal will be the liquidators becoming rich on the victims ’ money while the Government stand by and watch … |
| 20 | In the six years 1987–92 the Shared Earth Trust has transformed Denmark Farm by restoring and creating twenty inter-linked habitats , including hay meadows becoming rich in species , marshes and wet meadows restored to wetlands , a new one-acre lake , eight small ponds , 13 acres of woodlands and shelterbelts , and thick , luxuriant hedgerows . |
| 21 | Becoming sloppy in observations of other people 's behaviour . |
| 22 | In summary , single-mode inhomogeneously-broadened lasers have provided a rich corpus of both experimental and theoretical work : detailed quantitative comparison of the two is becoming possible with the development of unidirectional single-mode helium-xenon lasers by the Abraham group . |
| 23 | Moreover , much of the moral imperative of Judaeo-Christianity , to love one 's enemies , to support the poor and so on , is based upon the idea that God got His own divine hands dirty by becoming associated with actions that promoted such principles . |
| 24 | Tans were becoming associated with the real Sharon territory which could lead to their demise as a coveted status symbol . |
| 25 | Giving or taking repeated doses of any mood-altering drug , such as alcohol Or heroin , can result in the body becoming used to receiving that drug . |
| 26 | He was becoming used to the idea that Jinneth was not Jenny , that Bragad was not Hugh . |
| 27 | Posidonius confessed that at first he had been disturbed by the spectacle of human heads nailed up at the entrance of the aristocratic Celtic houses , but afterwards " becoming used to it he could bear it with equanimity " ( Strabo 4.4.5 ) . |
| 28 | But Moore was becoming used to them . |
| 29 | But when you start to think about it in terms of erm sort of psychological explanation as you 're becoming used to , then it becomes perhaps not such a good way of thinking about perception Matlin 's got some very examples in it of this of those sorts of things By and large were concerned with people 's experience , self-reported experience quite often , of the phenomena saying well tell me what you see when you look at it rather than being based on the sort of lovely stuff that we love , good solid empirical data , yeah ? |
| 30 | ‘ Unless there is a change , Britain is in jeopardy of becoming entrenched in a system of almost permanent one-party Conservative government ; elected by a minority but able to exercise the exclusive power of a majority . ’ |