Example sentences of "become more [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can look to our institutions of higher education becoming more rational in their inner processes , with their members working together in articulating a shared view of an institution 's aims and fulfilling them in a corporate way . |
| 2 | Locally weighted scatter plot smoothing illustrates the slowing of the rate of increase in AIDS incidence in homosexual/bisexual males , beginning in 1987 and becoming more striking in 1988 . |
| 3 | Yet neither side , partly because of the very existence of the truce , partly because of its own domestic divisions ( which were becoming more serious in France as the first decade of the new century progressed ) wished to raise fundamental issues . |
| 4 | In 1986 , the Committee on Finance for Industry , an arm of the National Economic Development Office emphasised that although lending facilities were becoming more available from the banking system , a major problem still existed with a need for a greater proportion of equity funding for small businesses . |
| 5 | But I do think that we are becoming more involved in the Livesey affair than our legitimate interest justifies . |
| 6 | I was excited and happy and enthused with the thought of becoming more involved in both the WLM and GLF . |
| 7 | Whether such sums are sufficient to enable councillors to spend more time becoming more involved in local policy-making is open to question especially given the ‘ career building ’ problem outlined earlier . |
| 8 | Secondly I , I 'd point out that it welcomes the community becoming more involved in industrial policy . |
| 9 | Sybil had not hung up ; the line was still engaged and Melissa was becoming more uneasy by the minute . |
| 10 | Government efforts to promote national unity and identity and improved communications contributed to Japanese society 's becoming more homogeneous by the early twentieth century than it had been in the Tokugawa period . |
| 11 | John and Malc watched hours of rehearsals from the stalls of the Palladium , both becoming more nervous by the second . |
| 12 | I pointed out that when we last met she seemed to be becoming more political in her attitude almost before our eyes . |
| 13 | The geographical distribution of a wide range of grammatical features will be descibed ; and insights will be obtained into the question of whether dialects are becoming more uniform throughout the British Isles . |
| 14 | Other studies , using census as well as survey data , found that levels of urbanisation were becoming more uniform from republic to republic , and that rural and urban living conditions were becoming more similar ; there was an increasing uniformity of occupational structure and a particularly notable increase in the representation of specialists among the previously less well educated national groups . |
| 15 | The instigators of a palace coup would have to take into account Mr Gorbachev 's other role as the elected president of the Supreme Soviet , a parliament becoming more influential by the week . |
| 16 | Dr Barham is a polymer scientist in the Department of Physics but is fast becoming more famous for his public lecture on The Physics of a Black Forest Gateau . |
| 17 | If she were annoyed she would say nothing but her anger might last for weeks , sometimes months , becoming more intractable for its lack of outlet . |
| 18 | It has been said that Englishmen have a paranoid suspicion of Oriental cunning , but it was becoming more apparent with every passing day that Javed Miandad and his team were just as concerned about the probity of their hosts . |
| 19 | We can not visualise ourselves becoming more powerful without damaging others . |
| 20 | Erm and speech convergence is one of the many methods of becoming more similar to another person , so that you erm get rid of your linguistic differences . |
| 21 | Not only are problems becoming more global in nature — such as atmospheric pollution — but international collaboration can be a more effective use of national resources . |
| 22 | Although schools are becoming more accessible to more and more Semai communities , children often attend only sporadically , simply refusing when it suits them . |
| 23 | ‘ It will also free taxpayers ’ money from being unnecessarily tied up in an asset which has the prospect of becoming more profitable under privatisation ’ . |
| 24 | A sensitivity to this type of variation should contribute towards pupils becoming more tolerant of linguistic diversity , more aware of the richness it can provide and more able to cope with problems of communication . |
| 25 | I find they 're becoming more frequent with age . |
| 26 | However , this practice is becoming more frequent in consumer markets as well . |
| 27 | Studies of rhetoric are now becoming more frequent in a variety of fields , but perhaps most often in studies of science . |
| 28 | We have seen how a conversation between a sergeant and a private might proceed by reference to each of the felicity conditions for an order and a challenge to each of them in turn , before becoming more explicit with the use of a direct order and an outright refusal . |
| 29 | The cells in the club can specialize , each thereby becoming more efficient at performing its particular task . |
| 30 | Becoming more efficient at your studies is another side-effect of exercise , quite apart from reduced sickness absence from lectures and tutorials . |