Example sentences of "[adj] it became [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a system was effectively harnessed by the energy and skill of Thomas Cromwell ; but deprived of his control after 1540 it became corrupt , inefficient , and unpopular . |
| 2 | By November 1985 it became apparent that the real antagonists were neither the Westland company nor British Aerospace , but Michael Heseltine , as a vigorous champion of the European link , and Mrs Thatcher . |
| 3 | The administration was always poor and in 1991 it became chaotic . |
| 4 | In the decade after 1833 it became apparent that the district courts , which had original jurisdiction in all civil cases and most criminal ones , were unable to handle the litigation brought before them without long delays . |
| 5 | On May 24th it became clear that America has won the contest hands down . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By the late 1970s it became obvious that the petro-dollar surplus was not going to destroy the international monetary system . |
| 8 | During the 1970s it became clear that adult education was mainly serving the needs of well educated and socially advantaged members of our society . |
| 9 | During 1902 it became evident that larger capacity cars would be needed for the main Norbury — Purley line and fifteen were ordered , ten to belong to the Corporation and five to the B.E.T . |
| 10 | A further area for the media group to check is the loss of circulation due to strikes or other problems : during the continuing difficulties that beset Fleet Street in the early eighties it became standard practice for papers affected to provide a rebate for lost circulation . |
| 11 | In the eighties it became clear that the social and ethical consequences of this state of affairs could be catastrophic . |
| 12 | After a review of its operation in 1977 it became clear that only a minority of patients referred from the other hospitals were being successfully rehabilitated and that St Wulstan 's had become another long-stay hospital . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | During 1978 it became apparent that the existing methods of storing and handling personnel information were inadequate and in need of urgent review . |
| 15 | During the summer months of 1986 it became clear that this approach enjoyed strong backing from the United States and Britain . |
| 16 | But then when she was 14½ it became physical . |
| 17 | She took such an avid interest in all that her daughter was doing that it became stressful . |
| 18 | In 1925 it became used partly as the school and partly as the village hall . |
| 19 | As the first round of the lower-level negotiations closed on Feb. 28 it became clear that these and other technical issues were still unresolved , and a second round of negotiations was due to commence in Budapest , Hungary , on April 23 . |
| 20 | About the middle of 1942 it became evident that in order to make the night bombing raids over Germany more effective , some form of air marking would have to be developed to guide the aircraft more accurately to their targets . |
| 21 | Before 1848 it had seemed for a moment that its crisis of transition ( see The Age of Revolution , p. 304 ) might also prove to be its final crisis , at least in England , but in the 1850s it became clear that its major period of growth was only just beginning . |
| 22 | There were many examples of species occupying territories separated by wide expanses of ocean , and in the 1850s it became fashionable to invoke prehistoric land-bridges to explain the migrations . |
| 23 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In the 1960s it became apparent that a revision of the features was needed , and the new set was introduced in Chomsky and Halle ( 1968 ) , pp.293–329 , rather pretentiously called ‘ The Universal Set of Phonetic Features ’ . |
| 26 | In the early 1960s it became clear that compulsory continuing education was actually becoming a hindrance to recruitment . |
| 27 | But gradually in the l950s and 1960s it became clear that , though the economy had grown considerably since 1945 , the UK was not keeping up with its rivals abroad . |
| 28 | In the 1670s it became clear that this was not the case and that the English really did intend to have a network of trade among all English possessions to give the colonies a safe if restricted market in England and to allow England — and London in particular — the whole re-export trade from the entire empire . |
| 29 | In January 1990 it became clear that donor countries were by threatening to cut the size of their aid programmes , placing pressure on the Sri Lankan government for an improvement in the country 's human rights record . |
| 30 | In the 1980s it became apparent that an increasing number of the senior jobs were handled by executive search and this increased during the decade until the late 1980s , when 80% of all senior jobs in the UK sourced outside the company were covered by the search firms . |