Example sentences of "it had become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in the day she was busy again when the Intelligence Officer informed her that it had become necessary for a UDR soldier and his family to move from their present house . |
| 2 | In truth , the Beirut front line could not be repaired , restructured , rebuilt or re-roofed because it had become necessary to the Lebanese . |
| 3 | ( When subsequently , the hospital became crowded almost to bursting point with the influx of evacuee patients from London , the master reported to the Guardians Committee that , owing to limited cooking facilities and greatly increased numbers , it had become necessary to suspend the existing dietary — which had so displeased Mr.J. — and adopt a more simplified bill of fare . ) |
| 4 | Helen 's dividends , like her own , had dwindled to smaller and smaller sums ; even for someone as uncommitted to possession or luxury as Helen was it had become necessary to top them up . |
| 5 | Half an hour later , driven by a resolve almost beyond her comprehension , she was across the lake , informing Tilly that it had become necessary for her to take up more permanent residence at the Lodge . |
| 6 | ‘ It had become necessary to dispel these doubts so that , with full trust restored , South Africa 's people could benefit from the technological development that has taken place as a result of this process . ’ |
| 7 | Worktwice , the rival firm which now has the fax number , say it merely applied for the fax number because it was told it had become available and are confident British Telecom acted in a right and proper manner . |
| 8 | Even so , the decision of the 19th Palestine National Council in November 1988 to take this highly accommodationist road was not an easy one , and was only possible because it had become apparent that the world now recognized that no substantive peace negotiations were likely to materialize without formal PLO participation . |
| 9 | But , as Mrs Shand Kydd has stated : ‘ It was my last Christmas there for by now it had become apparent that the marriage had completely broken down . ’ |
| 10 | Meanwhile it had become apparent that similar flooding had occurred at Cushendall where the Red Bay inshore lifeboat is stationed and all the crew assembled at the lifeboat station . |
| 11 | Alexei remembered how Tulagai and Targoutai had fawned on Siban before Nogai had been elected Kha-Khan , and how they had voiced their support for Nogai , their own half-brother , as soon as it had become apparent that he had Burun 's vote . |
| 12 | Over the years it had become apparent that Constance considered Brian a person of little consequence and that , this being the case , she would not have minded if he had hired the Albert Hall to denounce her as a barbarian and certainly cared nothing for his kitchen sulks and drawing-room sarcasm . |
| 13 | In time it had become apparent that , although Wheeler enjoyed giving orders and making speeches , there was not much else he could do . |
| 14 | He continued to use the coupling after it had become apparent to him that the locking mechanism of the coupling was broken . |
| 15 | Once it had become apparent to the farmer that the locking mechanism was broken , that had brought to an end the seller 's obligation that the coupling continue to be reasonably fit for its purpose . |
| 16 | Early in the year , it had become apparent that the combination of recession and low growth was having a punishing effect on our downstream businesses and that we could no longer continue investing at our previously high levels . |
| 17 | In the market place stands the chateau , formerly the bishop 's residence , which was enlarged in Renaissance style in the sixteenth century by the governor who ruled the town after it had become subject to Bern in 1536 . |
| 18 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 19 | By by the third Summer I think it had outlived its usefulness and it had become much more like a a mini-goose fair . |
| 20 | It had become possible to demonstrate the causative organism of syphilis , Treponema pallidum , under the microscope ; there was soon to be available a blood test , the Wasserman Reaction ( WR ) , which enabled syphilis to be diagnosed in the absence of any signs of the disease ; and finally , a new syphilitic treatment , Salvarsan , an arsenic compound , had become available . |
| 21 | The advent of relatively cheap microelectronics meant that by the late 1960s it had become possible to control these machines by dedicated mini- or micro-computers directly attached to them , such machines having ‘ computer numerically control ’ or CNC . |
| 22 | By the early 1980s , it had become possible to study modern linguistics , structuralism , semiotics , marxist theory , post structuralism , the sociology of literature , various brands of specifically literary theory , and cultural studies in some or other relation to English at a number of polytechnics and universities . |
| 23 | Moreover , she thought a great deal about what she was going to do long before she began working , and it had become possible for her to execute a painting with great precision . |
| 24 | By 1873 it had become illegal to have in one 's possession in the mine a ferrous metal pricker or scraper . |
| 25 | At Batavia , the pall of ash took a fair while to arrive ; in the early morning of the twenty-seventh , the sky was clear , but by 10.15 it had become lurid and yellowish as the ash spread across the sky ; by 10.30 the first fine ash was actually sifting softly down on to the streets . |
| 26 | Water had dripped on to the paper so that it had become sodden and merged with the lettuce leaves . |
| 27 | It was also the first to be held since the redecoration of the Tuileries had restored the palace to its former splendour ; this it had lost not only because it had been ransacked by the mob in 1848 , but also because it had become shabby during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |
| 28 | The idea of a woman who would save him was not new , but it had become real , it was no longer fantasy . |
| 29 | Er , er , and nobody seemed to bother then , the the place had opened up , it had become westernised , it was prosperous , it was green , er wherever you went you were very welcome , people tried to speak English , people tried to communicate . |
| 30 | On the first morning , England crashed to 55 for 4 and there was never any doubt about the result ; by the close , it had become 135 all out , and in three overs West Indies batted , two catches were dropped . |