Example sentences of "[is] [adv] becoming [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The North Korean Air Force is daily becoming more potent . |
| 2 | This traditional spokesmanship , which can imply serious responsibilities , is naturally becoming less significant today as modern communications and education reach into the furthest quarters of the globe . |
| 3 | Mr Sulzberger reckons his newspaper ‘ is slightly left of centre on social issues and slightly left of centre on economic issues but is rapidly becoming more conservative on everything . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I remember picking her up and playing with her , but now , although she 's friendly up to a point , she 's gradually becoming more dangerous . |
| 5 | I look forward to the lessons and always feel better immediately , but the difficulty with me lies in trying to maintain my awareness between the lessons , but this is gradually becoming easier . |
| 6 | The ‘ docile ’ , easily exploited workforce is gradually becoming more defiant and angry . |
| 7 | In this context there is always room for some sharp operator to move up the industry hierarchy of market share , although this is probably becoming more difficult as large groups become consolidated and the industry generally matures . |
| 8 | If a relationship is clearly becoming either more established , or girls ( and boys ) are moving on to other sexual relationships , it seems logical to take precautions . |
| 9 | A few months earlier La Fresnaye , a member of the jury of the Salon d'Automne of 1913 , had written , ‘ painting is clearly becoming more abstract . ’ |
| 10 | Alternative medicine is also becoming increasingly popular — the latest figures show that one person in seven has seen a complementary practitioner within the past year . |
| 11 | It is also becoming increasingly obvious that the company is needing to meet onerous legal requirements and indeed , our own commitment to better standards in areas such as Health & Safety , Quality Management , environmental matters , transport and training . |
| 12 | Ironically many senior managers in the private sector argue that their work is also becoming increasingly politicised and subject to the " fishbowl " effect . |
| 13 | ‘ Though the market is growing it is also becoming more competitive . |
| 14 | However , all too frequently the problem returns and is also becoming more difficult and expensive to treat . |
| 15 | He is also becoming more impatient with his traditionally inferior status . |
| 16 | It is also becoming more common for families to turn to lawyers during the course of investigation and before legal proceedings are even contemplated . |
| 17 | further , it is intuitively likely that a clock that is becoming less strong is also becoming less accurate . |
| 18 | It is also becoming less pleasant . |
| 19 | However , thinking on this score is also becoming less doctrinaire . |
| 20 | The farm worker still remains socially and geographically isolated but he is also becoming less bound by custom and habit . |
| 21 | He 's also becoming slightly deranged . |
| 22 | Soviet society is inevitably becoming more technocratic and under the control of an administrative stratum which many outsiders believe to have taken on the characteristics of a new ruling class ( Hill , Dunmore and Dawisha 1981 , pp. 209–11 ) . |
| 23 | It 's really becoming rather tedious . |
| 24 | Yet it is now becoming well recognised that pathogens may exist in forms without cell walls and may generate ‘ slow bacterial infections ’ in which the organism will not be easily cultured . |
| 25 | Furthermore , it is now becoming increasingly apparent that neither superpower can afford to sustain the level of economic and military aid that has been provided hitherto to allies and client states . |
| 26 | When I say we must accept " the general outline of Darwinian theory " I do not mean that we must accept the dogma of gradualism which Darwin felt to be crucial but which is now becoming increasingly suspect . |
| 27 | The standard condition ( Condition 4 ) deals with time limits for the raising of requisitions and it is now becoming increasingly common practice to mix in requisitions with any additional enquiries under the vague heading of " Observations " . |
| 28 | The net effect on costs is therefore unclear , for the picture is now becoming highly complex . |
| 29 | Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored . |
| 30 | Habitually fractious , difficult , Andrew is now becoming well-nigh impossible . |