Example sentences of "become a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd left school and wanted his advice on becoming a writer . |
| 2 | There followed three more failed marriages , going to college , teaching and becoming a writer . |
| 3 | It was in the course of a leisurely journey on the trans-Siberian Railway that he persuaded Wheeler-Bennett to devote himself to becoming a specialist on contemporary Germany . |
| 4 | ‘ A confidential clerk ’ in Macassar , Willems finds his marriage going wrong and himself , obsessed with an Arab woman with whom he flies to a remote tropical island , becoming a savage . |
| 5 | Mrs Frizzell found it impossible to forgive Mrs Dawson 's becoming a widow the same week as her party ; a history of Mrs Dawson one night , and the remarks the following night of the lady secretary of the United Nations ' Society on the role of the Canadian peacekeeping force in Cyprus , had meant that for the first time in years no report of Mrs Frizzell 's party appeared , though room had been found for a report on one of Mrs Murphy 's receptions . |
| 6 | It is about a crisis of identity ( becoming a widow or widower ) , about facing aloneness , about developing new competencies , often at a time of life when physical strength and energy are diminished . |
| 7 | ‘ I seriously thought of studying English literature — or becoming a cook ! ’ he told me with a laugh , ‘ but then Imperial College London offered me a place in mathematics . ’ |
| 8 | It is by helping newcomers , becoming a sponsor and by doing practical service of one kind or another for the group or for the Anonymous Fellowship as a whole that one gains greater insights into one 's own disease and greater humility and security in one 's own recovery . |
| 9 | ‘ You are in danger of becoming a Resurrection Bore . ’ |
| 10 | The married woman 's status is changing and from being a person in her own right she is becoming a chattel . |
| 11 | But one of the great changes from the past is that this possibility of living alone is swiftly becoming a probability . |
| 12 | This corn mill ceased operations around 1940 , becoming a grain store , and since part of a large landscaped garden near the impressive Highleadon Tithe Barn . |
| 13 | There was talk of India soon becoming a grain exporter and she discontinued PL480 shipments in 1971 because of shortage of storage capacity . |
| 14 | Purpose-built as a bookshop at the turn of the century , the barrel-vaulted and galleried interior of DAUNT BOOKS , 83 Marylebone High Street , London W1 , is rapidly becoming a pole-star for both actual and armchair travellers . |
| 15 | With a ready-made story , it was impossible to have ‘ writer 's block ’ , but that did n't stop the work becoming a chore as the pages increased . |
| 16 | That 's why the early church assimilated existing magical beliefs and imagery ( often rooted in Celtic mythology ) , becoming a reservoir of the popular subconscious . |
| 17 | ‘ About becoming a servant , I mean . |
| 18 | south London fair and menagerie of ancient origin , abolished in 1827 after becoming a nuisance . |
| 19 | The priests are becoming a nuisance . ’ |
| 20 | That my being alive and changing and having a separate mind and having moods and all that was becoming a nuisance . |
| 21 | And yet it is no wonder that Lear , with all his knights , is becoming a nuisance . |
| 22 | After working as a structural engineering designer he was a draughtsman with aircraft firms before becoming a lecturer at the University of Glasgow in civil engineering and aeronautics ( 1922–39 ) . |
| 23 | The Society is also unhappy that it was extensively tested on animals before being launched : ‘ There are many reasons for becoming a vegetarian , ’ explains Ms Gellatley . |
| 24 | 1st Monster — I 'm thinking about becoming a vegetarian . |
| 25 | IBM Austin , or at least some faction there , is seriously interested in becoming a system software supplier — a viable alternative to Microsoft Corp and Unix System Labs — and sees remarketing Mach 3 as the way to do it , according to a report out of an OSF Research Institute meeting in Boston the week before last . |
| 26 | He worked at St Mary 's Hospital as assistant physician and lecturer in pathology and in 1866 graduated MD before returning to University College as professor of pathological anatomy in 1867 , becoming a physician to University College Hospital in 1878 . |
| 27 | At the age of eleven he went to London to work , eventually becoming a butcher employed by Thomas Pickworth , a staunch Calvinist . |
| 28 | Since I was becoming a scientist they encouraged me |
| 29 | Facile complicity with the reader is rejected in favour of a quite rigorous and demanding process of consciousness-raising , in which the legitimate social demands of an oppressed readership catalyse the revolutionary writer into becoming a stern and uncompromising task-master goading the reader into political action . |
| 30 | In the first place , becoming a housewife impresses them by the very openness of the role [ ? ] and by the freedom they now have from constraining supervision … |