Example sentences of "it became [adj] for " in BNC.
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1 | It became easy for The Smiths to retain their true audience . |
2 | It became compulsory for all young men to learn martial arts . |
3 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
4 | AR : After Inday and I were forced from our land by the Del Monte Corporation , it became impossible for us to make ends meet . |
5 | In the turmoil which followed the Budget , it became impossible for ministers to conceal that , once again , the Government was in a muddle , making policy on the hoof around television and radio studios . |
6 | But since the districts were not subservient to the counties , the concept of ‘ delegation ’ was inappropriate , and thus it became essential for there to be clear guidelines to distinguish county issues from district issues . |
7 | When the statue stood in Argyle Street , it became traditional for Hogmanay revellers at Glasgow Cross to swing from the horse 's tail . |
8 | The very corpses were thought to be contagious ; in some parishes attempts were made to prevent their burial in consecrated ground , and it became necessary for the parson to conduct the service under cover of darkness . |
9 | Eventually it became necessary for a place of safety order to be made and for care proceedings to be instituted . |
10 | The one that drives the lorry with the big ears ? ’ , it became necessary for him to drive a truck instead . |
11 | Fortunately it became necessary for me to accompany the well-known Solveig 's Song on a dulcitone , which meant that I had to be close beside her in the wings . |
12 | ‘ By forming groups such as ours , ’ says Rona , ‘ it became possible for people who would never otherwise have met , to compare ideas . ’ |
13 | Initially this new German ‘ victory ’ weapon proved unnerving but before long it became possible for the ‘ V1s ’ to be intercepted by fighter aircraft over the sea , although their speed was a problem , but by moving the bulk of the anti-aircraft artillery units to the Isle of Wight and along the southern coastline of England , it was possible to shoot them down before they reached the London area . |
14 | Most OECD countries are over-banked and also with the development of international money markets it became possible for banks to seek a wider source of deposits for their lending operations . |
15 | Instead , it became possible for the Poles to compete on the open market and to bid against the Commission with capital made available by the Polish banks . |
16 | It was not until the Life Peerages Act 1958 that it became possible for a woman to be created a life peer and sit and not until the Peerage Act 1963 that hereditary peeresses in their own right were allowed to join them . |
17 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
18 | In these new circumstances of ‘ open parties ’ and ‘ participatory politics ’ it became possible for outsiders to seize nominations irrespective of the wishes of party leaders , and Jimmy Carter proved to be just such a candidate . |
19 | In fact , it was only as a consequence of this earlier work of literary , linguistic , and historical categorizing that it became possible for a sense of national and vernacular " ancestry " to challenge the cultural and educational rule of the classical languages and literatures . |
20 | In other words , it became possible for the intensity of development to be determined in advance by a local authority . |
21 | From Jan. 1 , 1990 , it became illegal for European industries to dump fly ash ( the residue from coal-fired power stations ) in the North Sea . |
22 | Through the composition of the Committee it became legitimate for the Board and the District to negotiate with the LEAs jointly or independently over their provision — a new development which Jacques valued highly as it was an explicit , formal recognition of the District as the Responsible Body for the organisation of WEA classes and courses . |
23 | It became famous for its marketing campaign — including blood trailing from a fur on a catwalk — which featured work by big names such as Twiggy , David Bailey and Linda McCartney . |
24 | In default of this being taken up , however , it became lawful for the mineral or metal to be disposed of as convenient . |
25 | After that many Republican law-makers felt compelled to go along with it — and it became harder for critics to attack the reforms as ‘ socialised medicine ’ . |
26 | That 's right and we , Brian had the club slides which he very kindly handed over to us when he , he , he felt it became difficult for him to cope with it erm cos his dad 's not well . |
27 | The durations prescribed by the Royal College when it became responsible for the curriculum and examination have steadily increased . |
28 | Italian and other styles were ripped out of their European context when , during the 1980s , it became permissible for young people in Britain , and most significantly young men , to be interested in fashion on a scale undreamed of in the 60s and the 70s . |
29 | By the third century it became common for at least some clergy in at least some places to wear either white or black — black being the more penitential . |
30 | It became common for a register or matricula of names to be kept . |