Example sentences of "it become [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the courts were clearly subservient to the commands of the Communist Party , although it should be noted that the degree of independence available to the courts has varied over time : in the 1930s it was minimal , but after 1956 it became greater . |
| 2 | This would at best have been a major irritant for an embattled leader of the opposition But it became worse than that . |
| 3 | Then it became softer , and died away . |
| 4 | The minimum fell somewhere between maternal ages 20 and 35 years and , from the minimum , the proportion of still births increased again towards older maternal age where , in most samples , it became higher than at the younger end of the maternal age scale . |
| 5 | The rain cast a decided dampener on their spirits and , as it became heavier , Geoffrey was moved to make a mild complaint . |
| 6 | As the proportion of central support began to fall dramatically , local authority dependence on it became clearer . |
| 7 | In Whitehall , Smith was pleased with the progressing organisation built up by Verity , but in 1949 it became clearer that the bottlenecks were not only on site steel but in the inadequate response of the pipework and boiler manufacturers . |
| 8 | Its essence stayed the same but now there was something new in its texture , and it became clearer as it approached . |
| 9 | And even when it became clearer — in a purely physical sense — as far as understanding it went she was as far from clarity as ever . |
| 10 | It became quieter . |
| 11 | As soon as she left the main tourist route it became quieter and darker . |
| 12 | After that many Republican law-makers felt compelled to go along with it — and it became harder for critics to attack the reforms as ‘ socialised medicine ’ . |
| 13 | It came nearer ; it became brighter . |
| 14 | Then it became darker , the trees denser , thicker , hemming them in on all sides as Thomas guided their horses along some secret path known only to him . |
| 15 | Should it become easier to acquire companies in the Community by a decrease in barriers to takeovers , UK companies would have a comparative advantage , as UK companies enjoy a relatively accessible source of equity finance through the large amount of stockmarket capitalisation . |
| 16 | Has it become worse or better since you first arrived here ? |
| 17 | What he has to come out with is not initially clear , but it becomes clearer when a taste of gay night-life turns him off , and he trails back to his dull wife . |
| 18 | From this vantage point it becomes clearer , showing its rounded back to the west and a steep series of crags , cliffs and gullies to the north and east . |
| 19 | If one looks at the early development of vertebrae it becomes clearer just how segmental much of our own early development is . |
| 20 | Obviously Wordsworth thought that his poems would have some positive effect in this direction ; it becomes clearer why so many of the poems written at this time deal with ‘ domestic affections ’ , and in particular with the separation of mother and child . |
| 21 | Thus it becomes clearer why the Law Society is anxious to distinguish between professional services and business , to promote so vigorously an altruistic conception of the lawyer/client relationship . |
| 22 | But as it becomes clearer with each day that Mr Perot still harbours political ambitions for himself , the old doubts about him recur . |
| 23 | When , for example , a previously repressed anger comes back into consciousness and it becomes safer for a person to acknowledge his hostility , desire is also freed . |
| 24 | What 's more , a damp wall has a lower resistance to the passage of heat than a dry one , so it becomes colder and simply encourages more condensation . |
| 25 | And then , almost imperceptibly , the calm surface become ruffled and the clear images blurred , and it becomes colder . |
| 26 | As it ages , it becomes softer , with even more intense apple-like fruit and honey flavours . |
| 27 | On the other hand , this degradation of the bench must be a slow process , so that the rate of cutting of a marine bench may be expected to become slower as it becomes wider . |
| 28 | The scale of measurement also affects the estimation of soil erosion because , as it becomes smaller , the problem of redistribution of eroded material within the areal unit becomes more serious . |
| 29 | You see it becomes tougher , you see it becomes tougher , , it becomes tougher the more successful you become . |
| 30 | You see it becomes tougher , you see it becomes tougher , , it becomes tougher the more successful you become . |