Among our neighbors, a tree was becoming a modest starting point for Christmas decorations.
Their goals shifted, becoming more modest and, in a sense, more useful.
He has come full circle, becoming the modest complementary player he was for his first few seasons, but this time it is harder for him.
He points out the characteristics of Haussmann's famous boulevards: the long avenues of ashlar-stone buildings between five and seven stories high, each subtly different – the more spacious apartments with ornate wrought-iron balconies on the second floor étage noble, with flats becoming more modest with each floor, up to the rooftop garrets.
But the trip seems to take an awfully long time, perhaps because it represents such a pivotal passage -- as close as anything else to a dividing line between what Wallace was and what he is becoming, between modest literary recognition and immodest literary fame.
But if sums are becoming more modest, there are still investments to be made, funds getting raised, and ever more VCs emerging.
After 9/11, you started writing in your market commentary that consumers' wine buying was becoming more modest and that wines had begun chasing consumers, rather than the other way around.
Last year, Labour won back control of Warrington borough council and the momentum is definitely with us". If your ambitions are more modest, becoming a local councillor should be fairly straightforward, provided you have some useful skills and are prepared to make an effort.
James Foley's reasons for becoming a reporter were modest but not small.
In a sense, Truman disorder is an unusually modest form of grandiose delusion: rather than becoming Napoleon, you become a famous version of yourself.
