By tapping into virtual reality, in its basest form we're allowing people to connect with the story," says Stephen. "Instead of sitting through 45 seconds on the news of someone walking around and explaining how terrible it is, you are actively becoming a participant in the story that you are viewing".
This will certainly help the balances on the TfL spreadsheets, but there will be those for whom it will still feel incongruous that TfL is actively becoming a private landlord.
It's very difficult for us to sit around and "just be"; instead, we prefer to be actively "becoming" whatever lies at the end of our current ambition.
Although I have become more selective about the weed I smoke, I have actively avoided becoming a weed snob.
Thus, joining this network and becoming actively involved in the multiple activities of its WGs is not only beneficial for the individual scientist, but also helps to solve the great challenges related to emerging pollutants at a local, national, European and global scale, and supports the integration of state-of-the-art science into regulation, monitoring and management of the environment.
Always interested in politics, he observed from the sidelines rather than becoming actively involved, until the early 1990s.
She also maintained her commitment to issues of social justice, becoming actively involved with the National Association of Colored Women and the cause of woman suffrage.
During their European tour, Margerie wrote a letter to Albert Erskine, Lowry's American editor, claiming that Lowry was "becoming actively dangerous: first to himself & me but now more savage towards everyone who crosses him in any way".
"What's been happening, through partnerships, eds and meds institutions are becoming actively involved in revitalization efforts," said Jennifer S. Vey, senior research associate at Brookings, a policy research organization in Washington.
It's a less commonplace experience, though, to feel yourself becoming actively less well-informed as you read, as if the celebrity's words were eliminating your brain-cells, one by one, like bubble-wrap being popped.
But as we talked, I was struck by the very idea of a young person — not a journalist, not a civic activist, not one of the usual suspects, in other words — becoming actively interested in the electoral process.
