Welsh and Yorkshire (now Kelda) Water pondered becoming mutually owned companies.
Since their four-game dismantling of the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference finals, the Lakers have had nine days to ponder becoming the first unbeaten team in N.B.A. history with a 15-0 playoff run.
She has pondered becoming an archeologist and/or paleontologist, so I ask her about her past experiences with dinosaurs -- including the scary ones.
As I ponder what is becoming a huge industrial and financial holding company, I wonder what rate of growth can be expected from Berkshire's utility business, natural gas pipelines and a giant railroad.
It is here that a possibility long considered may soon become a reality, as Democrats ponder the prospect of becoming, definitively, the minority party — in both senses of the word.
If the Jets lose Saturday, if they do not get a big play like a blocked punt to support the offense, they will have an entire off-season to ponder how to avoid becoming too much like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers -- a team with such a hit-and-miss offense that it cannot take advantage of a great defense.
A similar background took Cass off later to explore Amsterdam, while Sam in London, aged 16, pondered rebellion by thinking of becoming a BMW-toting stockbroker: "Until my mates talked me out of it".
Thus, a high Entrepreneur Identity Aspiration would signify in most cases that the individual would ponder deeply and work towards becoming an entrepreneur shaping his personality and affecting his behavior in such a way.
The audience members will hear the question and begin to ponder their own answers, thereby becoming involved in the topic of your speech.
They denounce a book criticising Mao as the work of a CIA agent, though Gilles, pondering his career as painter, is becoming a trifle sceptical, something signalled by a collection of Orwell's essays in English on his table.
After that, he is pondering graduate school, with ideas of becoming a professor or historian, or maybe a museum curator.
