Example sentences of "become a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the widespread use of the telephone for both business and pleasure letter-writing is in danger of becoming a lost skill and probably the only letters which are kept in the home are those between sweethearts or between members of a united family . |
| 2 | • For more information about becoming a foster parent , ring Alton Social Services or the Elizabeth Dibben Centre . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In November 1990 No 35 absorbed the Daks from 25 Squadron at nearby Ysterplaat , becoming a mixed role unit , taking in maritime patrol , general transport duties , target towing and navigator training ! |
| 5 | Following the Reverend Cotton to Boston , Massachusetts , in the ‘ Griffin ’ , after becoming a Cottonian Puritan , she tried to change religious opinion in the colony . |
| 6 | Having started on the road to becoming a professional Profitboss ( whatever your job ) , now determine the other essential steps . |
| 7 | Tim , from Darlington , a member of the five-piece band The Scarecrows , has high hopes of becoming a professional footballer but his future may be decided if the band goes on to win the national final in London . |
| 8 | The right hon. Gentleman is becoming a professional gloom monger . |
| 9 | In addition to the excitement of watching such a magnificent creature in action , it really is the only way to learn about birds of prey — and it would be my first step towards becoming a professional falconer one day . |
| 10 | But the urge to develop his own talent as an artist soon took over , and he began to exhibit his paintings in local galleries , such as Glyn y Weddw on the Lln peninsula , before finally deciding to leave teaching in 1989 , and becoming a professional artist . |
| 11 | Mr Garner joined TI in 1979 , after a brief but colourful climb up the industrial ladder and having discounted the idea of becoming a professional trumpeter — ‘ I do n't think I could have stood the strain ’ . |
| 12 | Since becoming a professional photographer , he has undertaken a wide range of assignments but , from the beginning of 1986 , began restricting the commercial work he was offered in order to produce less technically-orientated , more creative images . |
| 13 | The demands of the business prevented his following his original intention of becoming a professional chemist . |
| 14 | We need only to compare this to the average annual cost in 1986–87 of probation orders ( 900 ) , community service orders ( 520 ) , attendance sentence orders ( 117 ) or even places in probation hostels ( 7 , 174 ) to see why the Treasury is in danger of becoming a radical advocate of decarceration ! |
| 15 | On broader questions , like physics-and-biology , our understanding is considerably less and complementarity is in danger of becoming a descriptive catchword rather than an interpretative principle . |
| 16 | And it is likely that Nicol will duplicate Steve Smith 's 1980 experience of becoming a nonplaying Lion . |
| 17 | If even farm labourers in the south and Midlands were beginning to be market consumers as a consequence of becoming a waged proletariat , the tendency was even more marked among other sections of the working population whose numbers were growing more quickly , the urban population and those who manufactured in the countryside . |
| 18 | BECOMING A NUTRITIONAL DETECTIVE |
| 19 | ( Labour-supporting Elton is becoming a tabloid folk devil . ) |
| 20 | The opening up of copper mines on Caradon in the 1830's led to Liskeard becoming a booming mining town with , as 1850 's historian John Allen recorded , ‘ … fever and immorality were the natural consequences ’ . |
| 21 | I share Bob Leeson 's incredulity at Just William becoming a failed estate agent and prospective Tory candidate , But I 'd have thought Bob of all people could deduce the reason for it . |
| 22 | The computer or concept keyboard is becoming a useful tool in the preparation work for site visits . |
| 23 | ‘ Right from the credits sequence , with a double becoming a triple screen we know we 're in for a goody . |
| 24 | THERE are three main attributes in becoming a living legend . |
| 25 | The reality is much more complex than this , though we would be well advised to remember the central insight of McLuhan , that the world is becoming a global village , and of McDonald s , that global packaging creates global desires . |
| 26 | An AXA executive confirms that the French insurer wants to invest in UNI , pointing out that gaining a foothold in Scandinavia would be in line with AXA 's strategic aim of becoming a global insurer . |
| 27 | The deal , which was agreed by the two airlines in January after BA had pulled out of its original proposed $750 million link-up with USAir in December , confirms the strong negotiating position BA has always been in and puts its aim of becoming a global airline firmly back on course . |
| 28 | The deal , which was agreed by the two airlines in January after BA had pulled out of its original proposed $750 million link-up with USAir in December , confirms the strong negotiating position BA has always been in and puts its aim of becoming a global airline firmly back on course . |
| 29 | Another persistent rumour is that the National Railway Museum V2 No. 4771 Green Arrow will see service on the railway before becoming a static exhibit at York . |
| 30 | By then both men were heavy-legged and Mason 's inexperience at this level of boxing looked like becoming a decisive factor until he closed in and sent the American down with a short right to the temple and then a following left hook . |