Example sentences of "was become [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that at times it appeared that the only effective opposition to what was becoming a single-party government was from the press . |
| 2 | Communist influence in the ILP Guild of Youth led to its virtual disruption at the end of 1934 and the Revolutionary Policy Committee was becoming a Communist instrument . |
| 3 | Bureaucracy was becoming a major issue in contemporary China . |
| 4 | Dynmouth was becoming a nasty kind of place . |
| 5 | But when it became clear that the disagreement was becoming a hot issue , they gave way … only to find they 'd misinterpreted the producer 's fractured English . |
| 6 | Yet the Cpp was becoming a political monolith , a ‘ Tammany-type machine ’ as an American observer wrote : no longer the party of the masses . |
| 7 | But it was becoming a political factor . |
| 8 | Maurice Cowling has suggested that Law 's resignation was tactical , that he could not face reconciling his party to the coming Irish negotiations , and that he was giving up office so as to be available as an alternative to coalition in the future ; in Gaullist terms he was becoming a Prime Minister " in the reserve of the republic " . |
| 9 | He was becoming a good shot , in spite of the lack of practice in the army . |
| 10 | Two weeks later Springtown residents staged a demonstration in the public gallery of the Guildhall , a tactic which was becoming a regular resort of protest groups . |
| 11 | In particular , Greenwich Wick was becoming a new world . |
| 12 | A return to office by Labour after thirteen years of Conservative rule was becoming a distinct possibility . |
| 13 | Devon lost the services of Peter Roebuck just as he was becoming a key member of their side . |
| 14 | Eagle-spotting was becoming a national pastime and experts on birds of prey suddenly found themselves being quoted in every paper or interviewed on radio and television . |
| 15 | But they were hampered by the fact that the stealing of hill sheep at this time was becoming a common occurrence . |
| 16 | Supper was becoming a fashionable word and could cover a snacky situation better . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Whatever his eventual Liverpool prospects , he was becoming a fine chaser and ran third to Bachelors Hall and Fort Devon in the 1977 Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Newbury . |
| 19 | Serfdom was becoming a dire threat to both domestic and foreign security . |
| 20 | And on a more mundane level , they may well want the tourists back , before martial law , Lhasa was becoming a sought-after destination for western travellers and for their dollars . |
| 21 | In Flanders , the count 's peace was becoming a meaningful concept , at fair times at least . |
| 22 | For national politicians , television was becoming the important medium — even before de Gaulle returned to power ( 1958 ) . |
| 23 | Black 's office was becoming the common scene of both his and Gina 's despair . |
| 24 | It was becoming an industrialised society constituted by highly impersonal secondary relations . |
| 25 | An accompanying central government preoccupation about local government in this period was the fact that it was becoming an increasing spender ( not surprisingly , in the light of central government 's expectations of it in areas like education , personal social services and housing ) . |
| 26 | He was one of the first to see that the tomato was ceasing to be a luxury and was becoming an established part of the British diet , and he developed an important trade in carrying tomatoes from the Mediterranean . |
| 27 | However , some sort of a solution to what was becoming an endemic problem was soon found . |
| 28 | The CPR free-pass travel privilege was becoming an annual habit and the following year I took my holidays to New York finding a small but comfortable room at the Hotel Bristol on W. 47th Street , not far from Broadway , Times Square and Radio City . |
| 29 | Choosing him would soften the third-world grumble that the UN was becoming an American puppet . |
| 30 | As in many areas , an increasingly ageing population was becoming an added drain on scant resources . |