Example sentences of "was become more [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his wish for a healthy city he was becoming more and more aware of rural virtues and leaning towards the sort of suspect organicism which would be developed with a vengeance by Leavis . |
| 2 | Tony Visconti : ‘ The fact is that David Bowie was becoming more and more disenchanted with Pitt . |
| 3 | She tried to find a moment to squeeze in a bit of rest at the sauna , something she could not do during the week ; in the late afternoon , she would always find herself with a vacuum cleaner and duster , because the cleaning woman who came on Fridays was becoming more and more careless . |
| 4 | Endill continued to search on his own but was becoming more and more tired . |
| 5 | The two control sample carers ( Mrs Mitchell 's daughter and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew ) were both still quite definite about wanting to see their relative in institutional care ; Mrs Mitchell 's daughter said that she was becoming more and more anxious about her mother being at risk at home ; and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew saying that she was more than ever in need of care , and the strain upon him of having to cope with her difficult personality was making him wish even more acutely for institutional care . |
| 6 | Early in the summer of 1946 Hellen had been transferred to Toronto and I was becoming more and more disenchanted with the CBC . |
| 7 | Since those relations were daily growing in importance with the increase in trade , it was becoming more and more essential that all should try and give life to that necessary fiction of government that every man knew the laws of his country . |
| 8 | He was becoming more and more agitated . |
| 9 | For journalists like him , and others who had made their names digging out scandals such as Poulson , Jeremy Thorpe , Thalidomide , and police corruption , or by trying to engage the sympathy of the nation and the government for the oppressed in society , life was becoming more and more difficult . |
| 10 | Harold was becoming more and more irritable with his wife 's bouncing in and out of bed and he declared that if the mice saw the kitten they might well decide to make a meal of it . |
| 11 | The rivermen were finding it hard ; the scramble for work was becoming more and more intense as family debts grew and many valued and treasured items found their way into the local pawnshops . |
| 12 | But the sense of urgency was becoming more and more widespread , enveloping the key Ministry involved , that of the Interior . |
| 13 | Ellie was becoming more and more confused . |
| 14 | Artemis reined her horse back again , but he was becoming more and more strung-up and excited by the minute . |
| 15 | His fears were no doubt compounded by the fact that Vivien 's behaviour was becoming more and more erratic . |
| 16 | The vote for all adult men at least was becoming more and more widely established ; yet the idea and word " democracy " were still being resisted . |
| 17 | Black and Tan outrages had drawn only lame excuses , even denials , from the Government , and it was becoming more and more difficult to contradict the widespread assertion — by the local newspapers , by the man in the street , even by the RIC themselves — that the whole purpose of the Black and Tans was to crush Sinn Fein and the Irish Republican Army and cow the population . |
| 18 | Indeed , for me the need was becoming more and more urgent . |
| 19 | Long before the century was out recitative was becoming more and more perfunctory , the interpolated arias more numerous , and the heyday of aria opera was reached with Alessandro Scarlatti and the numerous composers born or trained at Naples . |
| 20 | However , what was particularly worrying , was that William was becoming more and more involved in solvent abuse , and as the abuse became more frequent , so the behaviour both at home and in school , became more extreme . |
| 21 | Melissa was becoming more and more irritated at the constant references to Bonard . |
| 22 | She was becoming more and more agitated . |
| 23 | She was becoming more and more convinced teaching should be her career . |
| 24 | I shivered in terror as I saw her face which was becoming more and more dragon-like with every minute . |
| 25 | My identity was becoming more and more tenuous . |
| 26 | He had realised some time before that he was becoming more and more attracted to her . |
| 27 | Under the strain of the occasion Zeinab 's accent was becoming more and more French . |
| 28 | He was becoming more and more angry . |
| 29 | I was becoming more and more annoyed by being so obviously patronised . |
| 30 | Hal 's cooking was becoming more and more rushed , the fatty 's felt that they were going to become thin in a matter of seconds and the ‘ skinnys ’ were very hungry . |