Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] becoming a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The royal authority was being challenged not only by princes but by a growing menace of another kind , the increasing number of freelance soldiers , or routiers , who were gradually becoming a characteristic force in French society , reflecting the faltering grip of lawfully-established authority . |
| 2 | Though he was n't to know this , it was a gesture of defiance that was slowly becoming a sexual need . |
| 3 | I think a number of us were becoming very concerned indeed that this was eventually becoming a political area and this this is dealt with in this way |
| 4 | Many of the others — broke and sickened by the attitude of their non-refusenik colleagues , who included most of the staff of the Sun and the News of the World — experienced personal traumas as they struggled with the difficulties of what was obviously becoming a futile protest . |
| 5 | The welfare of deaf people was thus becoming a grave concern to many people , and this led in 1911 to an important milestone being reached through the efforts of a wealthy merchant banker , a Mr. Leo Bonn , who was himself deaf . |
| 6 | Rock became aware that the thrilling , magical father , who had taken his young son backstage , on the road , drinking , water-skiiing , was gradually becoming a resentful tyrant . |
| 7 | By then Europe was clearly becoming a single State-system . |
| 8 | The funeral was now becoming a public display of private wealth — a statement of status — rather than a dignified journey to the grave , and there were any number of tradesmen in the private sector eager to cater for the demand and , thereby , to profit from it . |
| 9 | What had once been a pleasant Saturday afternoon 's entertainment was fast becoming a greedy , unskilled exercise to satisfy the demands of the uninitiated . |
| 10 | The move was provoked by evidence that Venezuela was fast becoming a major centre for the laundering of drug profits and the storage and shipment of cocaine abroad , especially to growing markets in Europe . |
| 11 | A root cause of the numbers was the long seven-year apprenticeship at low wages — a restriction of entry to the trade which compositors were reluctant to alter , but which was increasingly becoming a two edged weapon . |
| 12 | I should explain that U.C.L. was reluctant to begin a Department of Linguistics , although Linguistics was then becoming a popular and ‘ fashionable ’ new subject . |