Example sentences of "to becoming [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left to their own devices , most roses tend to develop new growth into which they direct their sap and energy , bear bloom , and which then — as it becomes old and tired — gradually either becomes starved , by-passed , neglected and finally aborted as the plant constantly turns its attention to new growth , or it develops a barky exterior layer as it settles down to becoming no more than a main road communicating between the raw material goods received from the warehouse in the soil and the production factory upstairs — quite often , a very long way upstairs . |
| 2 | Sir : The article by Tom Arnold ( 9 October ) , vice-chairman of the Conservative Party , takes much pride in the fact that social connections are , in his view , no longer a passport to becoming a Conservative candidate ( 9 October ) . |
| 3 | We now know that around 1922 Eliot was close to becoming a Buddhist . |
| 4 | Prior to becoming a teacher , Roddick decided she wanted to see something of the world . |
| 5 | The Tayif agreement was supposed to be a formula for peace , but last week it came close to becoming a recipe for one of the biggest , almost certainly the most ferocious , battles of the 14 ½-year war . |
| 6 | Though some local followers complain that she spends too much time in West End theatres and not enough in party meetings , Miss Jackson seems well-informed about her part of London , down-to-earth and fully committed to becoming a Labour MP . |
| 7 | At any rate , non-violence was on its way to becoming a political objective , not merely a moral one . |
| 8 | After a brief return to London , he went to Manchester , and was soon in business building spinning machines for the cotton mills , from which he graduated to becoming a mill owner himself at New Lanark ( q.v. ) with a thousand employees . |
| 9 | But in England the financial department was on the way to becoming a formal institution . |
| 10 | Laurin concluded that the Tetraceratops , as a species , lay between the pelycosaurs and therapsids , and that it must have been on the way to becoming a mammal . |
| 11 | Each time she made a decision to keep away from birds , she was in fact reinforcing and enlarging the fear in her own mind , so that she changed from being someone who simply did not like birds to becoming a person who would actually consider spending the rest of her life within her own four walls rather than risk encountering a few sparrows in her path . |
| 12 | HAVING taken your first steps on the road to becoming a video movie maker , you can now begin to run a little . |
| 13 | Roger suddenly launched into this discussion about how they 'd identified the need for someone to join the team with a view to becoming a main board member ; this person would effectively release him from a lot of the day-to-day public company responsibilities and the accounting , reporting and auditing areas , so that he could focus on being part of the entrepreneurial team , organising financing and liaising with the City . |
| 14 | Liza 's desire to join the ATS , with a view to becoming a driver , was probably an extension of her avid need for conviviality . |
| 15 | As Barry Norman put it , ‘ There were three essential requirements to becoming a member of the Hollywood Brat Pack — you had to be successful , youthful and incredibly bratty . ’ |
| 16 | The rituals Tamino and Papageno are required to undergo , which include taking vows of fasting and silence , have exact parallels in the initiation ceremonies which an apprentice Mason undergoes on the way to becoming a Master . |
| 17 | Being an extra in other people 's star turns was n't a good way of graduating to becoming a star . |
| 18 | TEN YEARS after its foundation the Tangmere Military Aviation Museum ( TMAM ) was ‘ crowned ’ in the manner now accepted as the route to maturity and to becoming a regional , and perhaps national , force . |
| 19 | Prior to becoming a Volunteer , I was a cutter/draper/pattern maker in a professional theatre . |
| 20 | It will also tackle the way a big city hospital adapts to becoming a Trust under the Government 's controversial scheme . |
| 21 | A worthwhile alternative to becoming a business tycoon is to devote your energies to voluntary work . |
| 22 | His parents were separated , one sister dead from a drug overdose , his younger brother on his way to becoming a merchant banker . |
| 23 | Berkshire 's outlet was Reading , situated on the Kennet just above its confluence with the Thames , and on the way to becoming a major river-port , forwarding malt and meal to London , to which Great Marlow shipped Chiltern corn brought down from High Wycombe . |
| 24 | This is certainly the case in many inner city areas , where there has been philosophical and political opposition to the scheme and where the organisational barriers to becoming a fundholding practice have been considerable . |
| 25 | As one writer has noted , ‘ There is a turning from being a star player to being a coach , from being the patronized to becoming a patron , from being totally preoccupied with oneself to being preoccupied with the generation which will take over ’ . |
| 26 | Charlton was twenty-eight in 1966 and on his way to becoming a chrome-dome . |
| 27 | He followed the traditional approach of considering separately the imposition of burdens upon a third party from the conferring of benefits , and stressed in his commentary the requirement of good faith prior to becoming a party to a treaty . |
| 28 | Byron was a " touring tragedian " whose preoccupation with his own performance made everything outside himself seem unreal , an actor " who devoted immense trouble to becoming a role that he adopted " . |
| 29 | But he was , in any case , close to becoming a smiling public man — a man who gave speeches at school prizedays , who would answer the toast to " poetry " at dinners , who collected the occasional doctorate or honorary fellowship . |
| 30 | The route to becoming a Harvard dealer was not always straightforward . |