Example sentences of "become [adj] with [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Omar said that just as the crowd was becoming angry with impatience in the hot sun a young woman of about twenty-five years of age was roughly pulled out of a police car .
2 As Smeaton gradually retired , Jessop came to be regarded as ‘ the first engineer of the kingdom ’ , becoming overloaded with work during the canal mania of the 1790s .
3 If the driving frequency ( f ) is close to the pendulum 's own natural frequency ( f ) the swing amplitude becomes large ( obviously ) ; the motion may then become unstable with respect to perturbations in the perpendicular ( y ) direction ( far from obviously ) .
4 Our world can also become black with fear of the future .
5 Northern counties of England and north Wales will become cloudy with rain in places by midnight .
6 One other linking factor then became important with respect to PMP , namely , how the young woman dealt with the situation .
7 Her face became hot with embarrassment beneath the cynical gleam in his heavy-lidded eyes .
8 When I became ill , I became obsessed with exercise at the same time .
9 This is perhaps the most obvious possibility , given that solutions with steady circulation become unstable with respect to growing oscillations when .
10 As Miliband ( 1974 ) says , ‘ Old age , disablement , low pay , unemployment , etc. become synonymous with poverty in so far as those involved are members of the working class . ’
11 Piano keys made with synthetic resins or polymer fibres eventually become slippery with sweat from the pianist 's fingers after been played for a long time .
12 Either way , his finger-tips became moist with sweat at the thought of producing the expression in front of the television cameras .
13 Despite the hardness of her aunt 's attitude , the latter 's distress had got through to Lucy , causing her to become engulfed with sympathy for the older woman .
14 Few of us ( unless we are looking for this ) want to become fixated with interest on another individual .
15 The University is in the process of implementing a new payroll system , which is planned to become live with effect from the first payment in the forthcoming tax year — i.e. from April 1992 .
16 In each case it is evident that physical geographers had to become conversant with progress in related disciplines and a number of excellent papers in Progress in Physical Geography ( 1977- ) provide reports reflecting progress in other disciplines .
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