Even then, astute listeners realized that she was en route to becoming something extraordinary.
"They're frightened because this movement" – he waved a hand over the square – "is becoming something extraordinary".
After 1756 Hunter's medical practice was devoted principally to obstetrics, and he was the most successful specialist in this field in Great Britain in his day, becoming physician extraordinary to Queen Charlotte in 1762.
His closing chapter, "The Banality of Catastrophe", lays out better than anything how everyday and ordinary engineering and business practices can be even when on the cusp of becoming unhappily extraordinary.
His anger at this destruction fused with his fury at the treatment of gay men and his own concerns about being infected with HIV, becoming the extraordinary "dream allegory", The Last of England.
She captures at once what it feels like to be an "ordinary" young woman as well as one who was clearly quite extraordinary, becoming adult in an extraordinary time and place, engaging with extraordinary people.
He had acquired the long hair of a rock musician (but not their appetite for drugs, of which he strongly disapproved), and his domestic menage was becoming ever more extraordinary.
(One of these, Death Cab for Cutie, had an extraordinary afterlife becoming a comedy rock song for the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and subsequently performed by the Beatles in their 1967 television film Magical Mystery Tour).
2. Unfortunately, in our complex world, it does appear that the extraordinary is becoming more ordinary; that conflicts of crucial interests are occurring more regularly.
For them, becoming a parent takes some extraordinary, often expensive, means or at the very least extensive planning and coordination.
