Example sentences of "[subord] it became [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it became heretical to deny that God could have created other worlds , it was as dangerous to say that He had . |
| 2 | The BR watchdog body , the Central Transport Consultative Committee , said last night it was evident the crash was caused by human error , although it became clear that arrangements for supervising and auditing the quality of work were ‘ lamentably defective ’ . |
| 3 | Almost immediately it became clear that the river was kicking back at the abuse it was receiving . |
| 4 | NO SOONER had the new organisation ‘ After Dark Railtours ’ sent off their advertisement for publication than it became necessary to cancel the operation . |
| 5 | Than it became detached . |
| 6 | Perhaps the mightiest indoor rally ever held in Britain , Mosley had no sooner begun to speak than it became clear that organised Red gangs , each hundreds strong , were occupying positions in every part of the huge arena … with the sole intention of preventing the speech being heard . |
| 7 | The language had to be one accessible to more than the ruling elite , so it became one or other dialect of the vernacular . |
| 8 | Early capitalism needed more labour power , so it became uneconomic to kill and mutilate offenders . |
| 9 | They cooled the sample below its critical temperature so it became superconducting , then applied an increasingly strong magnetic field . |
| 10 | ‘ 16-bit ’ audio has a signal-to-noise ratio which comfortably exceeds the full dynamic range of an orchestra , so it became possible to record orchestral music without any need to compress its dynamic range . |
| 11 | When Britain sent in troops to prevent the Canal being taken over , there was a worldwide outcry , particularly from the U.S.A. , who still accused Britain of retaining an Imperialist attitude , The British troops were withdrawn , but the Egyptians had sunk a number of vessels in the Suez Canal , so it became impassable for some while . |
| 12 | It seemed to float above the town , particularly when one approached from the south , from the flats , and as you climbed Steep Hill and came nearer , so it became less of a mirage and more of a stone reality . |
| 13 | Instead it is thought Meiko will use the Fujitsu Ltd VP single-chip vector processor for floating point operations alongside the Texas Instruments Inc Viking SuperSparc for scalar operations , although Meiko has said that Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's HyperSparc will be considered once it became available ( UX No 385 ) , and that the i860 could work with the new architecture if required . |
| 14 | He solved the problem by dispersing the fish in smaller groups once it became apparent he needed to do so . |
| 15 | Progress towards a new version of flexible response was also possible once it became apparent that there would be no major increases to Nato 's conventional forces , especially since the Americans could not lead by example as long as they were mired in Vietnam . |
| 16 | Once it became possible to lower a patient 's blood pressure substantially , it was not merely of academic interest to know whether the raised blood pressure was really ‘ essential ’ , that is necessary to maintain a sufficient flow of blood through narrowed arteries to vital organs , and , if it was , whether modest treatment ( to ward off the obvious hazards of strokes or heart failure ) could be tolerated . |
| 17 | i Once it became obvious that youth organizations could not solve the ‘ boy labour problem ’ , either socially or economically , the question arose as to what needed to be done . |
| 18 | The Commissioner states in his report : ‘ Because it seemed to me that the Minister 's letter implied that the NHS had an absolute duty to provide care for the complainant 's father once it became clear that he could no longer meet the nursing home fees , I asked the DoH for clarification of the legal position and invited their general views . ’ |
| 19 | THE BANK of England yesterday spent a reported $1bn after the pound came under sustained attack once it became clear that an increase in West German interest rates today is almost certain . |
| 20 | But once it became clear that most Algerians supported Iraq , the FIS quickly did the same . |
| 21 | Once it became clear that there was no possibility of raising the funds for the National Trust or English Heritage to take on the house , SAVE began to look at other options . |
| 22 | In August , for example , de Gaulle predicted that the US would resort to force , once it became clear that Stalin was going to try to build atomic weapons . |
| 23 | Some Tories were obviously nervous about converting their disaffection into active treason once it became clear that France , the Jacobites ' main European ally , was in no position to back an expeditionary force . |
| 24 | Mr Lawes and Mr Whatling said they had signed a partnership deal once it became clear how important the find was . |
| 25 | Industry would be unwilling to invest further in recycling until it became profitable , he said . |
| 26 | The full sized engine would then have been worked on until it became feasible to exploit steam engines commercially . |
| 27 | Mr Wilson added that he was still pursuing the wider issues of the case until it became apparent whether the case of Ian X was unique . |
| 28 | Others followed suit until it became standard practice in the group . |
| 29 | Once this conventional world had been established , it was easily recreated until it became traditional . |
| 30 | Better to gamble that a private collector would keep the car until it became rare enough to warrant accepting it , if it were offered later . |