Example sentences of "become [adv] [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other sea monsters washed ashore have proved objects of interest and attraction to visitors at first , but soon becoming so offensive as to render the town of Looe barely inhabitable . |
| 2 | But I considered myself to be unattractive , and in becoming so thin as to render myself totally undesirable sexually , I was saying , ‘ I may be unattractive , but this is because I choose to be this way . ’ |
| 3 | Branches are becoming less uniform as banks tailor outlets to meet specific needs . |
| 4 | Surely polymeric surfactants , which are becoming increasingly important as dispersing agents , are worth more than the three pages devoted to them here . |
| 5 | Their tastes are also becoming increasingly sophisticated as shown by booming sales in luxurious fine fragrances , according to a survey by Mintel . |
| 6 | Indeed , the cross-equation restrictions may become so complicated as to make computation of the restricted model difficult or impossible in practice . |
| 7 | Sometimes disagreement , in spite of attempts to conceal it , will become so public as to prejudice a party 's hopes of electoral success . |
| 8 | More importantly , the financial and time pressures on heads of houses have become so acute as to leave little appetite among senior publishing people for taking on additional responsibilities . |
| 9 | Hooliganism involving Dutch supporters has become so frequent as to suggest that another blanket ban of a nation 's clubs might be necessary . |
| 10 | However , Dr Tim Synott of the Oxford Forestry Institute suggested that plantations might be suitable on some formerly-forested lands that had become so degraded as to have very little biological value . |
| 11 | In fact , we in methodism we 've been ordaining women for the last twenty-five years , and it has become as natural as breathing to us . |
| 12 | Third , markets also became increasingly fragmented as rising affluence led to increasing demands for differentiated products from discriminating purchasers . |
| 13 | Eventually the two values in column one become effectively equal as do the two values in column two . |
| 14 | For those tenants who become so dependent as to require more intensive care than can be reasonably provided in sheltered housing the survey asks : " Are they to be " bolstered up " by extra warden support ( and other sources of help ) or are they to be transferred to more appropriate settings ? " |
| 15 | Difficult problems like learning to type , ride a bicycle , tie shoes , or knit seem almost impossible at first , but once learned become as matter-of-fact as breathing or walking . |
| 16 | Such an agency generates a repulsive force which eventually becomes so strong as to halt the contraction of the object and to make it ‘ bounce ’ . |
| 17 | Add to them the cohorts of civil servants patiently drafting and redrafting sackfuls of international Green verbiage , and whole planeloads of whingeing journalists and television crews , and the whole shebang becomes so big as to overwhelm the senses of the vast majority of the aboriginal citizens of Planet Earth . |
| 18 | That is not to say it is the recommended method , once you have started the latch tool method of working ribs it becomes so fast as to make you wonder why you did n't try it before . |
| 19 | The main aim of all the above would be to ensure that using a microcomputer as a tool becomes as natural as using a telephone or a typewriter . |
| 20 | Its basis is the naturally occurring substance uranium , an element which under certain circumstances can be made to become so unstable as to produce an explosive force . |