Example sentences of "become more [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General collections management processes ( i.e. the formal documentation of an object on acquisition — or ‘ accessioning ’ , monitoring object condition , recording of object movement , loan processing , storage environment , etc. ) are , however , becoming more generally standardised as a result of the work and influence of bodies such as the Museum Documentation Association . |
| 2 | It was becoming more widely accepted by our management that , with the increasing sophistication of our craft and equipment and the growth in crew numbers , proper training for all crewing officers was becoming essential . |
| 3 | The advantages of Unix for multi-user systems are becoming more widely accepted in computing circles , but it should be noted that Unix versions of our specialist software packages are as yet unavailable . |
| 4 | In the sixteen months between Britain 's application and its rejection by de Gaulle , a body of opinion was created in Whitehall and amongst the electorate that looked forward to Britain becoming more closely linked to Europe for a variety of reasons ; one of which was to reduce America 's dominance in the West 's military affairs . |
| 5 | There has been an increase in suitable candidates , with women becoming more highly qualified through educational opportunities — businesses realise they can not afford to cut themselves off from 50 per cent of the market eg IBM , Unilever . |
| 6 | Early in the eighteenth century they became more firmly subjected to Dzhungaria . |
| 7 | On this basis English became more closely attuned to producing individual citizens capable of full and critically evaluative responses , rather than the professional scholars and readers of the pre-war period . |
| 8 | Behind the industrial revolution were a series of major historical transformations , including the abandonment of popular culture by the European elites after 1500 such that the concept of culture itself became more closely related to hierarchy , but was combined with a growth in literacy and other resources by means of which lower status groups might also gain access to the new high culture ( see Burke 1978 : 270 and Mukerji 1983 for pre-1800 ; Williams 1961 for post-1800 ) . |
| 9 | A growing proportion of the leadership became more closely associated with the Chinese communists in the later 1920s and in the 1930s . |
| 10 | The above review of the branches of geomorphology would perhaps indicate that the increasing emphasis upon process was accompanied by increasing fragmentation of geomorphology as the branches each became more closely associated with other disciplines . |
| 11 | As pesticides became more widely used by most farmers , ‘ organic ’ farming took on a broader meaning — the crops were not sprayed with synthetic pesticides either . |
| 12 | Gradually the island became more widely known through picture albums , engravings and travel books . |
| 13 | Improved versions of what became more generally known as the patent still are widely used in the making of grain whisky , gin , and other potable and industrial spirits . |
| 14 | While it seems fairly certain that Cemaleddin did not live into Bayezid 's reign , it also seems not impossible that the works were written for Bayezid after about 783/1381 , when it became more nearly connected with Anatolian affairs by taking over the province given him by — or , more correctly , taken from — the Germiyanids as a dowry . |
| 15 | Some commentators — particularly Cockburn and Dearlove — have argued that this was a period of structural change in which local government became more clearly tied to the interests of capitalism and closer to business interests . |
| 16 | In those societies where the third estate was initially weak — and during its subsequent development in the nineteenth century became more clearly divided into distinct classes — the bourgeoisie , already threatened by the labour movement , embraced a more conservative type of nationalism , and the creation of a modern nation state based upon the capitalist mode of production was accomplished in a more authoritarian fashion by what has been called a ‘ revolution from above ’ ( Moore , 1967 ) . |
| 17 | Officially entitled ‘ No Future ’ , it became more popularly known as ‘ God Save the Queen ’ . |
| 18 | During the nineteenth century it became more specifically recommended for consumptive patients — initially in Funchal itself and later , at the beginning of the twentieth century , at Monte , when the Monte Palace Hotel opened in a magnificent park . |
| 19 | There are , however , homœopathists who carry about with them on their visits to patients the homœopathic medicines in the fluid state , and who yet assert that they do not become more highly potentised in the course of time , but they thereby show their want of ability to observe correctly . |
| 20 | Language … is the instrument through which , by means of individual adjustments in response to feedback , both " languages " and " groups " may become more highly focused in the sense that the behaviour of members of a group may become more alike … |
| 21 | Consequently , it is often impossible for lone appointees to represent the views of users effectively and authorities must become more seriously committed to listening to service user 's opinions and providing opportunities for them to exercise real influence . |
| 22 | It presupposes that it is possible , in modern circumstances , using modern tools and resources , to find a way whereby men and women can become more fully integrated into their social environment and find in it something deeply expressive of their own personality and aspirations . |
| 23 | Overall , the discipline in the UK has become more heavily dominated by those who espouse sociology 's political role . |
| 24 | Furthermore , the available evidence suggests that the two strongest growth sectors — professional and scientific , and insurance and other financial services — have become more spatially concentrated during the postwar period ( Daniels 1978 ) . |
| 25 | By contrast the SITE Report ( ‘ Surveying in the Eighties ’ 1980 ) of ten years later makes very different reading : ‘ The role of the building surveyor has become more clearly defined in the past decade … . |
| 26 | The chapters fall into four sections : in Teaching and Learning we review the conflicts between various demands on educational institutions , conflicts that have become more clearly defined in recent years . |
| 27 | Unlike these cherished Angevin possessions , however , Clairvaux had been held by relatively unimportant vassals and by the 1130s they seem to have become more closely attached to the Viscounts of Châtellerault . |
| 28 | Second , it is questionable how far militarization.remains a serious check on industrial action now that democracy has become more securely established in Spain . |
| 29 | It is surprising that higher education libraries have not become more fully committed to aspects of the teaching of study skills , for various reasons . |
| 30 | It is at this point , where the routines become more closely aligned with the self and where they appear to be dealing reasonably successfully with the ever-present problem of control , that the habit becomes hard to break and that threats to it will be resisted . |