1.   As I have thought about this part of the puzzle it has become clear to me that there are two crucial factors.

2.   As the new millennium begins, a world supposedly safe from war has to some degree become a world safe for war.

3.   But the extension of the tax - for that is what it had become - to inland areas aroused resentment and opposition.

4.   It became clear to them that she had understood their every word.

5.   It had not occurred to Nutty how accustomed they had become to the steamy swimming baths and the seventy-five degree water.

6.   Soon it became clear to everyone that war was imminent.

7.   The more you fear financial loss, the blinder you become to solutions.

8.   In retrospect, it became clear to me that this incident was indeed key - and key in more than one sense.

9.   It was strange how fascinating he was becoming to her, against her own wish that their relationship should remain strictly businesslike.

10.   My future husband was becoming to me my whole world, and more than the world, almost my hope of heaven.