These days, however, they are leaving just as they are becoming competent.

She takes magic very seriously, becoming competent enough in the fifth season to achieve what Buffy cannot.

The galaxy might wonder how the unfortunate boy had suddenly become competent, but the true answer was not likely to be believed.

In the long term, however, the ward benefits from a student who through supervision becomes more competent in the care she gives.

Was there any hope of Nafai ever becoming so strong and competent?

During his childhood, he studied painting and then the flute under Barrera, becoming competent enough at the instrument to consider a career as a flautist.

In a survey in 1985, one-third of the officers queried thought that many colleagues had been "promoted before becoming competent at existing grade levels."

For becoming competent in developing intercultural relationships, the following three phases have to be passed:

On becoming competent in English, he joined the news and current-affairs department and worked as a translator of newswires.

If you watch bilingual children they often go through phases of being not very competent in either to becoming competent in both.