Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] it [verb] [adj] [that] " in BNC.

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1 By the early 1970s it became apparent that the Soviet Union had become engaged in a much more competitive effort to acquire overseas facilities for similar functions to American ones .
2 For non-Nazi , ‘ national-conservative ’ power-élites in the economy and in the army , Hitler 's ‘ charisma ’ had in itself never been a decisive factor , even though by the early 1930s it seems clear that substantial sectors of especially the ‘ intellectual élite ’ had succumbed in varying degrees to the Führer cult .
3 In the early 1960s it became clear that compulsory continuing education was actually becoming a hindrance to recruitment .
4 But in spite of all this it seems likely that during much of the nineteenth century this subterranean aspect of international relations was less important , and less prominent in the minds of both diplomats and policy-makers , than at any time in the last 300 years .
5 By the late 1970s it became obvious that the petro-dollar surplus was not going to destroy the international monetary system .
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