101.   Now sensitized to a negative outcome, parents tended to hold back and not become as emotionally involved in a subsequent pregnancy.

102.   One may be how ugly the charges and counter-charges become as both sides escalate their public pressure on each other for a settlement.

103.   Or whether a breakaway goal ever will become as captivating an image as a play at the plate, a touchdown run or a slam dunk.

104.   Over time, he became as inseparable a part of the magazine as Eustace Tilley, the Regency fop who gazes quizzically through his monocle at a butterfly.

105.   Patients flock to his practice, and he has become about as much of a celebrity as a full-time radiologist can.

106.   Platoon pitching has become as much a part of the game as platoon hitting.

107.   Over the years, tent revivals in vacant lots across New York have become as much a part of summertime as humidity and haze.

108.   Pacific Northwest insomnia has become as common for the Bruins as suspensions, injuries, first-round losses and NCAA investigations.

109.   Professional stylists have become as important in Nashville as record producers, creating polished looks for acts that often have only shopped at Wal-Mart.

110.   Quickly, predictably, defiance of the terrorist threat became as much a theme as citius, altius, fortius.