Example sentences of "[pers pn] be becoming a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was becoming an old hand by now ; I was n't nearly as nervous as I had been the other times , even though the audience was twice the size . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're becoming a terrible bore , Johnny , ’ Bella said , a hint of irritation in her voice . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We are becoming a degenerate race , even in the simplest things . |
| 5 | We are becoming an ageing society . |
| 6 | so where on earth , where is the the er the proof that we 're becoming a classless society ? |
| 7 | They are becoming a laughing stock . |
| 8 | The Tamil Tigers , a separatist group in Sri Lanka , are suspects , since Mr Gandhi had complained that they were becoming a parallel government in Tamil Nadu . |
| 9 | When I heard reports of the changing physical shape of German women , that they were becoming a different breed of women we 'd been told from the old , rather heavy , erm motherly plain sort of woman who characterised Germany womanhood before the Second World War , well now we read that their shape and their weight and so on corresponds much more to French or British and American norms . |
| 10 | But it 's becoming a major issue as landfill sites fill up . |
| 11 | Given the number of mergers that have happened over recent years , it 's becoming a rare event when a firm can celebrate its centenary with the same name it started out with . |
| 12 | It 's becoming a favourite pastime , combining the thrill of the chase with the joy of the bargain which is why we regularly try and bring you news of the latest openings . |
| 13 | ‘ Now it 's becoming a big sport here , ’ says Paul . |
| 14 | It 's the same with Prince — it 's great having a bit of rumpy pumpy on the TV with a few cheeky videos and lots of naughty bits , but it 's becoming a little standard . |
| 15 | Now it is becoming a powerful factor in the new , frenzied politics of Eastern Europe . |
| 16 | It means that the proletariat is leading the entire working nation behind it , that it is responsible for the development of the whole of society , that it is becoming a great collective organiser of the entire national economy , that the direction of development is not towards a widening of the gulf between the fundamental class ( the working class and peasantry ) and that things are not moving towards a ‘ third revolution ’ , etc . |
| 17 | It is becoming an essential binder in the structure of a civilisation created by the application of science to industry . |
| 18 | It is becoming an annual tradition for Hazel French , a loyal class member of Elsie Streek 's and a Kent team member , to open her house and garden to Medau friends and give them the opportunity to chat , swim , walk , play tennis , do a Medau work-out , eat , drink and sunbathe ( sun guaranteed , of course ) . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's becoming a real nuisance . |
| 20 | But it was becoming a political factor . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | It was becoming an industrialised society constituted by highly impersonal secondary relations . |
| 23 | Ashton-under-Lyne was given a rigid grid of wide streets by the Earls of Stamtord after 1758 when it was becoming an important cotton town . |
| 24 | Devon lost the services of Peter Roebuck just as he was becoming a key member of their side . |
| 25 | He was becoming a good shot , in spite of the lack of practice in the army . |
| 26 | Charles wondered if he was becoming a dirty old man . |
| 27 | 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 " . |
| 28 | 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 . |