Example sentences of "it became clear [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | After a moment it became clear that Alexei was excusing himself . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In desperation , she managed to get the head of a psychiatric hospital near Plymouth to travel to Four Winds , when it became clear that Liza 's agoraphobia was too severe to allow her to make the journey to him . |
| 4 | The radiocarbon discrepancy was confirmed and it became clear that radiocarbon results would need to be calibrated to convert them to calendar ages . |
| 5 | On May 24th it became clear that America has won the contest hands down . |
| 6 | Soon it became clear that Sarah was seriously ill with rheumatic fever and would not be able to work for some time , and another girl , Hetty , was engaged temporarily . |
| 7 | One morning , it became clear that NARCOG was not the only group using Filanta Court as a base for its intelligence operations . |
| 8 | But as the night wore on , it became clear that Univac had been right all along . |
| 9 | In the early 1970s the cynical and exploitative role of multinational companies appeared to be confirmed as it became clear that Shell and BP , the latter half-owned by the British government , were the principal source of oil supplies to the outlawed Smith regime of Rhodesia . |
| 10 | The Guildford Four were freed in 1990 after it became clear that evidence used against them had been fabricated by the police . |
| 11 | Clearly that justification collapsed once it became clear that shareholders in large public companies no longer exercised any real control or responsibility over their property . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It became clear that Iran was still aiming at a battlefield victory , posing specific preconditions for an end to the war : reparations and the removal of Saddam and his entire regime . |
| 14 | OSF/1 was ACE 's primary Unix focus when the initiative was launched amidst much fanfare last year , but over the following months it became clear that DEC was the only major ACE member committed to using the operating system . |
| 15 | Soon , however , it became clear that Cruikshank had promised more than he could deliver , and after two months of waiting , all hopes of Adscombe were given Up . |
| 16 | Unfortunately for the government , it became clear that Mosley meant what he said about the scandal of mass unemployment and the greater scandal of Labour 's failure to do anything about it . |
| 17 | Over the next few days it became clear that Jake was avoiding her . |
| 18 | When it became clear that conservatives were dominating the Congress , many members of the Democratic Platform resolved to leave the CPSU and form their own party called ( in November 1990 ) the Republican Party of the Russian Federation . |
| 19 | In the final hours , as it became clear that Manitoba would not have time to approve the Accord , the federal government announced that it would ask the Supreme Court for an extension of the ratification deadline . |
| 20 | In the following year it became clear that fascism was not confined to Germany and Italy but was a development common to all European countries . |
| 21 | Some of the extreme cases ( such as the Yorkshire miners who would strike unless electricity were connected to their village ) did reach the public eye , and it became clear that Citrine was not fooling when he said there were many equally damaging examples for which the chairmen would insist on pinning the blame where it belonged — on government . |
| 22 | When the poorer south-side wards started to report , it became clear that Mr Savage was back . |
| 23 | It became clear that travelling was important to Morris and so much an inspiration that if he ever felt bored at home or lacking in inspiration he just packed a suitcase and got on the nearest train to visit someone . |
| 24 | It became clear that travelling was important to Morris and so much an inspiration that if he ever felt bored at home or lacking in inspiration he just packed a suitcase and got on the nearest train to visit someone . |
| 25 | It became clear that prostaglandins have a prominent role in tissue inflammation , as well as in such diverse functions as blood clotting and contraction of the uterus . |
| 26 | At first light it became clear that HMS Impregnable had carried five miles across shoal water from the Dean to a position about half way between Langstone and Chichester harbours , approximately half a mile from Hayling Island . |
| 27 | Over the months it became clear that Tom 's aggressive arguing with Terry was founded on a similar slight two and a half years previously . |
| 28 | In most subsequent cases , it became clear that considerations of comity would not prevail against the usual procedures of the Federal Rules so long as deponents or documents were to be produced within the United States , from whatever source . |
| 29 | In the centuries that followed such shadings were shown to be transitory , and from these and other observations it became clear that Venus is completely and continuously covered in clouds . |
| 30 | 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 . |