Example sentences of "become [adv] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign companies immediately became less ready to invest in the country . |
| 2 | But as the days went on the truth became less difficult to live with than it had threatened to be , and she knew that she would never leave her husband because she , too , was to blame . |
| 3 | ‘ Universities suddenly demanded higher entrance standards and became much harder to get into , ’ he says . |
| 4 | As the duties were light and rapidly becoming merely nominal owing to the continued refusal of the war to start , Charles fetched Clarissa from her theatre nearly every night to take her dancing at one famous rendezvous or another . |
| 5 | It is becoming less useful to enter into each other 's feelings , more and more convenient to consult one 's pocket computer . |
| 6 | The winter Olympics especially are becoming ever harder to fit into sensitive mountain settings , which must be protected from a rolling programme of environmental damage . |
| 7 | His shallow waters were becoming more comfortable to dabble in than Lowell 's dark and turbid sea . |
| 8 | With vintage aircraft becoming increasingly expensive to fly for purely pleasure , Lindsey purchased Piper PA-24 Commanche 250 G-ARFH in 1977 to replace the ‘ 108 as the family runabout . |
| 9 | Ideas of Divine Right were , it is true , becoming increasingly difficult to justify in intellectual terms . |
| 10 | Appropriate revision should ensure that the scheme keeps up to date , but large scale reclassifying remains unpopular and an uneasy balance between updating and stability must be maintained ; this balance is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain as knowledge changes rapidly . |
| 11 | This move had three objects : to complete the education of our two younger children , Fiona at Fettes ( where my old Highfield playmate Inky Chenevix-Trench was now headmaster ) and Alastair at the Edinburgh Academy ; to have Moira 's mother who was living alone in an Edinburgh flat and becoming increasingly tottery to live with us ; and to own property once again and so benefit from its ever-increasing rise in value . |
| 12 | First , the strain of maintaining Martin Luther King 's advice to " turn the other cheek " was becoming too great to bear in the face of continued attacks and insults . |
| 13 | The European countries also appreciated that the need for the whole world recovery was important , and they became more willing to contribute to the economic development of underdeveloped countries . |
| 14 | As working-class demands and demonstrations for full employment and better pay became more insistent , they also became more difficult to resist without risking a more serious confrontation . |
| 15 | When imported cloth became more difficult to obtain from the mid 1980s tailors and seamstresses reverted to using a higher proportion of home-spun cloth woven on handlooms . |
| 16 | And in many abolitionist minds this would ultimately lead to emancipation ; slaves would not only gradually become more able to live in freedom but better conditions would so enhance the population of labourers in the West Indies that it would be cheaper to employ workers on a waged basis than as slaves . |
| 17 | Words of English and other foreign origin will also become more difficult to recognise by the decision to remove the hyphen from many compound words . |
| 18 | The rapid advances in this field suggest that computational analogues of human reasoning abilities will become increasingly difficult to distinguish from the real thing , and if a mechanistic view of biological systems is taken , this in itself may provide sufficient proof of the ability of non-biological systems to develop the ability to process ideas and communicate concepts . |
| 19 | Such regularly superimposed implications can then become quite hard to disentangle from sentence or literal meaning ; in order to prise them apart , the theorist has to construct or observe contexts in which the usual pragmatic implications do not hold . |
| 20 | Such questions have become much harder to answer as a consequence of the Government 's astonishing success in closing the north-south divide , which was thought to be wholly irremediable when they came to office . |
| 21 | To avoid the complications of need theories it has become more acceptable to talk about goals , values or work orientations — i.e. to acknowledge that people have tendencies to return to similar ends or goals that seem to be ( sufficiently ) important to them to suggest an underlying theme , pattern or goal behind their behaviour . |
| 22 | In recent years it has become more acceptable to distinguish between different types of learning . |
| 23 | In a sense , if cultural products are regarded as a code which must be interpreted , this code has become increasingly difficult to decipher without access to some key . |
| 24 | The teaching of geometry has also declined because it has become increasingly fashionable to focus on ‘ achievable objectives ’ : children work steadily through textbooks and workcards . |
| 25 | As manufactured goods have become relatively cheaper owing to increased labour productivity in manufacturing , there has been a relative increase in consumer spending on services . |
| 26 | Realising that I was now unrepresented in the 5 ft 11 inch society , I searched my soul , but had become insufficiently double-jointed to see round the back ! |
| 27 | This means that publication of excavation reports , as the Frere Report indicates ( 1975 ) , will also have to be transformed , since large pottery reports may now have become too expensive to print in the traditional manner , and may have to be available in microfiche sheets . |
| 28 | Recently the Treasury has become very slow to approve in lieu deals , which has led to this useful fiscal provision being underused ; in 1991–92 , works of art worth £3.4 million were accepted in lieu of tax , when the provision ( although this does not represent a ceiling ) is for £11 million p.a . |
| 29 | These improvements were achieved in a market where hire rates have not improved and where contracts became even harder to win with margins further reduced . |
| 30 | At the infrastructural level , the highways and transport system of Israel , Gaza and the West Bank were developed in such a way that it became increasingly easy to drive from Israel direct to one of the West Bank Jewish settlements without passing through Arab population centres . |