1.   But as public school attendance became mandatory, and as graduation thus became commonplace, the number of college students increased astronomically.

2.   Many of these colts are castrated, and as geldings they become more docile and respectful.

3.   The longer the club goes, the more important the club becomes as a source of ideas for their personal investing.

4.   The state apparatus is getting stronger as the economy is transformed by scientific and technological developments, as planning becomes more complex and as society generally becomes more educated.

5.   As the mixture becomes too stiff to stir, turn it out onto a surface dusted with cornflour or icing sugar and knead in the remaining icing sugar.

6.   Both gave themselves up to the glory of their passion, until, in a mind-spinning, flooding moment, they became as one.

7.   He became as bad tempered and irritable as his character.

8.   Already, cease-fire violations have become as much the rule as the exception.

9.   An intensive third-grade string program in the schools has become as much a part of schoolwork as multiplication tables.

10.   And as funding becomes harder and harder to find, the artistic director has to articulate a vision, well, more articulately.