Example sentences of "be become [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're becoming quite a leading man in this crew , George Merry . |
| 2 | He was involved in the same heavy round of duties as soon as he returned to London , however , and honorary positions were becoming increasingly a burden . |
| 3 | BAS , though a chartered , autonomous scientific body , is becoming increasingly an instrument of government policy . |
| 4 | If you recall yesterday , I think yes , the term sick as a parrot is becoming quite a , er , apparent to me in here again , that 's again looking at your faces , some of you , so you 're all quite happy about that one , you knew where you went wrong there . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's becoming just a fashion statement . |
| 6 | I anticipate that because that 's becoming now a key question . |
| 7 | It 's becoming quite an art gallery . |
| 8 | Now Henry lives near Henley , and while he would sneer at the Hooray Henries crowding that town 's regatta ( in true , no-frills , Aussie style ) , he 's become quite a showman himself . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he said , ‘ she 's become quite a favourite with the company . ’ |
| 10 | Punch tells me Bishopstow House is become quite a smallholding . |
| 11 | In the second half of this period , under Secretaries of State such as the Duc de Choiseul ( 1758–70 ) and the Comte de Vergennes ( 1774–87 ) it was becoming steadily a more and more effective machine . |
| 12 | Especially as this new bit of gossip came at a time when the idea that Walter Machin was becoming posthumously a national figure was beginning to filter through to Oswaldston consciousness . |
| 13 | Already Northern Ireland was becoming just a pretty landscape , a backdrop to the pain behind her eyes . |
| 14 | She thought that she was becoming rather an accomplished liar . |
| 15 | At this date such illustrations were uncommon even in engineering , where drawing was becoming both a serious matter and something like an art form . |
| 16 | Being middle class was becoming more a matter of consumption than of belief . |
| 17 | Traditionally , the centre-half , under the offside law as it then was , played chiefly as an attacker , but even before the offside law was changed in 1925 to increase goal-scoring chances , and thus bring about a need for stronger defence , he was becoming more a third defender . |
| 18 | In the cloistered shelter of the medieval monasteries brewing was becoming quite an art in the skilled hands of monks well used to brewing table beers for their abbots . |
| 19 | The theme of Stalingrad was becoming rapidly a major embarrassment to the propagandists , especially those on the Wehrmacht staff , who had prematurely whipped up the victory atmosphere in September . |
| 20 | The ideology of family life embedded in the wider notion of ‘ respectability ’ was to become therefore an important element in the establishment of bourgeois leadership in society at large . |