Example sentences of "become [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand your feelings , child ; and I , too , feel … but … but , ’ and the voice became rather thick as she ended , ‘ we will not demonstrate them . ’ |
| 2 | Behind them she could work with a charm and singleness of attention that became so smooth as to be chilling , except for the friendliness of her large grey eyes . |
| 3 | Behind them she could work with a charm and a singleness of attention that became so smooth as to be chilling , except for the friendliness of her large grey eyes ’ . |
| 4 | This became especially colourful as it dawned upon employers of servants that they would have to buy stamps for their cooks and skivvies . |
| 5 | Their degree of visibility was also more predictable than the visibility of local candidates , though their visibility became less predictable as the election approached . |
| 6 | TTT , carefully nurtured in the early days of PNP — especially after our fourth report had provided both a label and a framework for its development — became less prominent as coordinators returned from a collaborative to a solo teaching role . |
| 7 | Although Stephen 's trips to the mills became less frequent as he appointed capable managers , the farms on the estate and the timber business still took a great deal of his life and Tamar found that time hung heavily . |
| 8 | In fact it became much worse as Diana would make herself sick four , sometimes five times a day . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | By the end of the 1950s that argument was becoming less effective as time blurred the collective memory of the Republic and an increasingly large sector of the population had no direct experience of either the Republic or the Civil War . |
| 12 | Branches are becoming less uniform as banks tailor outlets to meet specific needs . |
| 13 | Wives , becoming less absorbed as babies become more clearly their own persons , but often remaining tied , tired or bored by the demands of toddlers , perhaps feeling lonely and lacking enough external stimulus , may similarly find themselves resenting and envying what they see as their husbands ' ‘ freedom ’ of action . |
| 14 | There could be problems of ranking priorities here , becoming more acute as full employment of labour and means of production is approached . |
| 15 | Hearthwares argued over past skirmishes and hunts , the lords over family history and precedence , the arguments becoming more fantastic as they put away more ale . |
| 16 | The emphasis in the first two books is on oral/aural work with reading and writing becoming more central as students develop towards intermediate level in Destinations . |
| 17 | THE market for mains-signalling installations is becoming more varied as it grows . |
| 18 | Peter Fane has noticed that his customers ' demands are becoming more adventurous as they try to appear lusher and leafier than their rivals . |
| 19 | Performance indicators are becoming more sophisticated as managers wrestle with the problems of choosing and monitoring appropriate measures of quality and effectiveness . |
| 20 | That 's it , we need to follow a set of step lies , instructions becoming more difficult as you go on that what was intended . |
| 21 | In this context there is always room for some sharp operator to move up the industry hierarchy of market share , although this is probably becoming more difficult as large groups become consolidated and the industry generally matures . |
| 22 | But conventional management buy-ins , which are becoming more common as the supply of normal MBO transactions dries up , involve more risk , since the knowledge of the target 's internal workings is no greater than that available to a trade buyer . |
| 23 | These negative trends were becoming more common as people ‘ looked towards money ’ rather than socialist moral values , a situation the party leaders regretted but seemed unable to control . |
| 24 | These foreign-owned firms were responsible for about 20 per cent of UK manufacturing output — a slightly lower proportion than in France , West Germany or Italy , but becoming more diverse as investment from the EC , Japan and other industrialized countries increased while that of the USA declined . |
| 25 | By the end of 1988 , the boundaries were becoming more obvious as the situation became more tense . |
| 26 | Local society was becoming more polarised as smallholders sold up and moved elsewhere . |
| 27 | His voice had deepened , the words becoming more guttural as for the first time since she 'd met him he seemed to struggle with a language which was not his own . |
| 28 | The changes that are taking place , especially in relation to bus passengers , are wide and varied and are becoming more important as each week goes by . |
| 29 | Many radical feminists see little point in attempting to change the education system because women are trapped in a vicious circle in which men keep changing the rules if women show any sign of becoming as successful as them . |
| 30 | Labour 's local government spokesman , David Blunkett , has warned that the council tax is already showing signs of becoming as controversial as the poll tax . |