Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] apparent " in BNC.

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1 It swiftly became apparent that congress would not go along with such an increase , especially after the big Democratic gains in the 1974 elections .
2 When we met up as planned , it soon became apparent that Paul had in fact researched the matter in hand extremely thoroughly , and I had an impressive number of addresses and names of contacts to take back to Katrina .
3 It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length .
4 The demand for flour continued to rise and it soon became apparent that considerable savings in both costs and labour could be effected if the repeated handling and transportation could be reduced .
5 Although he won a place at art college after leaving school , it soon became apparent that he could n't draw .
6 In spite of some very idealistic pronouncements and general high hopes , it soon became apparent that the best efforts of the League of Nations were to be frustrated with ease by the fundamental and unresolved differences of opinion as to the exact meaning of Free City status .
7 While many people frowned at such a huge expansion programme , it soon became apparent that it was insufficient to guarantee the avoidance of another crisis , and official approval was immediately secured for the planting of a further 5,000 hectares by the year 1990 .
8 A mechanical bush-clearing company was called in , but it soon became apparent that machines could not accomplish all that was required , and labourers from other tribes were set to work .
9 It soon became apparent to Edward that they were not en route for Westminster .
10 It soon became apparent that men were being discharged too soon , to make room for a growing number of casualties .
11 It soon became apparent , however , that Mrs Rafferty was only too pleased at the thought of Edna , though still at school , helping out at Four Winds during the weekends .
12 But it soon became apparent in Zambia and other new countries that inexperienced and possibly unstable governments feared the ability of the press to provide conflicting or alternative ‘ truths ’ , for this put enormous power into the hands of the press proprietors .
13 It soon became apparent that the future for NME was to model the whole paper in its image ; make it harder , more rock-oriented and move away from the chatty , showbiz legacy .
14 But it soon became apparent that other people were also affected including injecting drug users , people with haemophilia , people who had received blood transfusions as well as heterosexuals who came into none of these categories .
15 Although the Czech delegation , consisting of the directors and head curators from virtually every major gallery in Bohemia and Moravia , expressed a real desire for a quicker and fuller integration with the wider art world , it soon became apparent that the Czechs are not yet ready to engage fully with their Western counterparts .
16 But it soon became apparent that Britain still preferred little more than an effective interlocking system of treaties along the lines of the Treaty of Dunkirk : increasingly , if these were initiated , they would be little more than holding operations until the United States shared in the defence of Western Europe .
17 The new client group included many disadvantaged young people whose needs , it soon became apparent , were very little different from those traditionally thought of as having learning difficulties or behaviour problems .
18 FIGURE 2 It soon became apparent when I started working on this quick landscape sketch that the Polychromos Pastels are equally well suited to a more painterly method of handling too
19 But it soon became apparent that the divisions between the French and English ran very deep .
20 It soon became apparent that customers had different requirements for the number and type of transput devices to be attached to their computer .
21 The full extent of the tragedy was impossible to asses at first , but it soon became apparent that the number who were killed instantly was in excess of 70 .
22 It soon became apparent that the working time each week would be limited to about two hours .
23 It soon became apparent that a crucial factor was the readiness of interviewees to take up areas referred to in the questions .
24 It soon became apparent to Lily that the wife and the young man were in the midst of an affaire , which by secret signs and language they seemed able to carry on during the journey .
25 We may usefully draw an analogy here with the women 's movement in which it soon became apparent that if the real extent and nature of sexual oppression were to be understood , and services appropriate to real needs struggled for , feminist psychologies which recognised the individual consequences of collective oppression , and traced their causes beyond the individual to the mechanisms of that oppression , would have to be developed .
26 Whatever the Soviet objectives might have been , it soon became apparent that it would be very difficult to achieve them .
27 But it soon became apparent to the pioneering voluntary organizations that established them , such as the Richmond Fellowship , that patients who had been mentally unwell for years did not miraculously become capable of independent living in a short space of time ; they often needed permanent help and support and coped particularly poorly with changes in their environment and lifestyle .
28 Although the online catalogue finally emerged incorporating the card catalogue model , it soon became apparent that the new " form " had much more potential than the automated housekeeping tool originally envisaged .
29 Because it soon became apparent to Sarah , if not Peter , that this was what it was .
30 First to be built was a concrete block-house , reinforced with metal struts , which it soon became apparent was a large pill-box to protect whatever it was that was going to go up .
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