Example sentences of "[be] becoming [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stone farm buildings that make ideal nesting sites are becoming scarce . |
| 2 | Some plants and animals are becoming scarce in the intensely farmed parts of East Lothian but here is a chance to ensure that you will see them . |
| 3 | Perhaps also under this heading might come an increase in complaining : people find themselves becoming self-centred and self-justifying in conversations and perhaps feeling that they are becoming boring ( and often are ) . |
| 4 | Things are becoming intolerable at the club these days and the boot sale is only part of it . |
| 5 | Ironically , such speedups are becoming limited by the fastest thing in the universe : the speed of light . |
| 6 | Such side-effects seem to be becoming increasingly common these days , and many patients are becoming disgruntled with these drugs and are seeking safer alternatives . |
| 7 | Production systems requiring high inputs of energy are becoming high-cost agriculture . |
| 8 | Such parties are becoming rare , and the winter population has probably declined during the last decade . |
| 9 | And although such particulars are understandably meaningless to people digging out from billions of flakes , they are becoming crucial to scientists who are trying to predict everything from avalanches to metal failures . |
| 10 | The old and needed services for customers are becoming non-existent on the Tube . |
| 11 | Issues of who pays , when and why , are becoming central to computer archiving . |
| 12 | Diane Miles , marketing manager of Lancôme , identifies the shift as taking place at the level of presentation rather than formulation : ‘ There are very positive signs that consumers are becoming bored and frustrated by claims for anti-ageing creams which are couched in over-technical language . |
| 13 | More coaches with international credibility are becoming involved , e.g. Ian Barclay , Bill Knight , Mark Cox , Nick Brown and David Felgate and one or two of the older players are starting to look interesting e.g. Andrew Richardson . |
| 14 | My experiences suggest that an increasing number of doctors are becoming involved in the promotion of dubious treatments , either by acting as medical advisers to companies or through their association with clinics providing unorthodox treatments . |
| 15 | Growing numbers of schools , colleges , community groups and other training providers are becoming involved in European projects . |
| 16 | are becoming involved in a peasant movement , are joining peasant associations , that they are , they 're taking up arms , the they 're doing a whole range of things , something quite big is happening here . |
| 17 | Well I mean one of the women I spoke to that I mentioned in that piece felt strongly that schools were laying too much on children in terms of taking responsibility for how the world is , and she erm mentioned in particular erm the kind of ecological issues that lots of schools and teachers are taking up now and erm children are becoming involved in projects for , you know , recycle this that and the other and there 's a book , is n't there , ‘ The Children 's Green Guide ’ or something . |
| 18 | In general old people who are becoming vulnerable in some way , are left to carry on coping with the assistance of family , friends , or neighbours , and most receive minimal help from outside welfare agencies . |
| 19 | Severe drought is already in place in the Rio Grande do Norte state , where water supplies are becoming exhausted , and there is now the danger of a famine across vulnerable areas of the north-east . |
| 20 | The argument that certain kinds of family are becoming privatized has been put by Goldthorpe et al. |
| 21 | Furthermore , the lake ecology is now upset , and the waters are becoming eutrophic , with a build up of algae and dead plankton . |
| 22 | Others who have been home for a few months come in feeling as if their brains are becoming addled and wanting something to do . |
| 23 | Measures introduced since the 1970s to clean up industrial pollution have reduced levels of aerial deposits of sulphur — a trace element which plants need to grow — to such an extent that crop yields and quality are becoming affected , according to a British scientist . |
| 24 | Estimates of the extent of desertification vary ; the Gaia atlas of planet management ( Myers 1985 ) , for example , suggests that c. 10 per cent of the 700 million people that inhabit the arid and semi-arid zones are living in areas that are becoming impoverished and that c. 12 million ha of land are degraded annually to such an extent that they are agriculturally unproductive . |
| 25 | The time the ‘ study ’ is taking is worrying — and some key names in British industry are becoming restive ( This Week , p 357 ) . |
| 26 | The delays have become so prolonged that there are rumours that Philips ' Japanese partners are becoming restive . |
| 27 | T-shirts of the cult US cartoon show The Simpsons ( see p16 ) are becoming standard club wear in America . |
| 28 | A biologist at Cornell University , Quentin Wheeler , has warned that large numbers of insect species are becoming extinct without ever having been studied , due in part to a shortage of entomologists . |
| 29 | A growing number of the world 's 65 species of dolphin are becoming extinct , according to a report from the Environmental Investigation Agency ( EIA ) . |
| 30 | The first pictures encountered by the youngest readers ( and the youngest readers will be very young : ‘ Ideally , a small pile of good books awaits the new baby 's arrival ’ according to Dorothy Butler , 1980 , p.27 ) will be simple , clear pictures of objects to be seen in the reader 's immediate world , objects that are becoming familiar in real life . |