11.   Any child or grandchild of immigrants will recognize the process by which Petar became Peter and Tonic became Tonich, morphing later into Tomich.

12.   Bilateral and multilateral negotiations are ongoing, and industry officials say the final outcome could become clear by Friday.

13.   Big banks are becoming huge by acquiring midsize competitors, and small banks are, well, staying small.

14.   Aleksandr Volkov, the former Soviet Union star and onetime Atlanta Hawk, is not just the conduit by which Medvedenko became a Los Angeles Laker this summer.

15.   All your letters of how beautiful my daughter is becoming by the day.

16.   But as they became fixtures by the lake, the hostility waned.

17.   But in fact, gay and lesbian performers have by now become an entrenched part of the comedy scene.

18.   But other areas, like semiconductor capital equipment makers, have come down a lot and are becoming inexpensive by historical standards.

19.   But today, its hallowed grounds have by universal agreement become a monument to a different kind of national disgrace.

20.   By mid-day it became apparent that everyone else in the NCAA Championship field was playing for second place.