Example sentences of "it becomes [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can occur not only if the goods subsequently perish but also , for example , if after the contract is made , it becomes illegal to carry it out . |
| 2 | The moment it becomes unprofitable to do so , there is no doubt in my mind that the tree-farmers will abandon these forests . |
| 3 | In addition , it becomes possible to notice certain movements , just out of focus on the horizon . |
| 4 | It becomes possible to envisage a sequence of shots in which real pieces of connected action are linked together by shots which are included to fill in the continuity gaps . |
| 5 | In view of the results on spreading it becomes possible to say something about the amount of new material seen as exposure increases . |
| 6 | For ‘ prodigies ’ ( ‘ Mr Binyon 's young prodigies ’ ) surely we ought to read ‘ protégés ’ ; and then it becomes possible to wonder whether the jocularity about bulldogs does n't mark a wistful or resentful sense that Binyon and Sturge Moore ( ‘ old Neptune ’ ) might have done more with their respective protégés than merely set them to sniff and snarl at each other 's heels ; to question whether the two senior writers could not have established themselves — at least for some purposes — as masters of ateliers in which the two young hopefuls might have enrolled as apprentices . |
| 7 | Suppose that in the future it becomes possible to predict others ' behaviour more efficiently by observation and computation than by the always hazardous venture of trying to fathom the mysteries of the human heart . |
| 8 | By studying their biology and behaviour , therefore , it becomes possible to draw reasonably probable conclusions about how their — and thus our own — ancestors lived . |
| 9 | As we move into the 20th century it becomes possible to tap the folk memory directly . |
| 10 | A common theme emerging from much of the second tradition of cross-national research is that it becomes possible to examine the complex ways in which national industrial relations variations are bound up with wider processes of political and economic development , particularly the phasing of industrial development ( as in Dore 's work ) , the nature of the state and underlying class relations . |
| 11 | The long term significance of using fibroblasts and skin grafting will emerge if it becomes possible to use very large inserts of genes coding for hormones , with associated sequences which allow response to physiological controls : for instance , inserting the entire normal insulin gene into fibroblasts and hoping that there will be a physiological insulin response . |
| 12 | In short , as nuclear capabilities have developed and conventional forces become more global in their reach , it becomes possible to extend the canopy protecting the forces of progress from the United States and others who would arrest natural and necessary changes . |
| 13 | Assuming that the proportion of visits done in the sample between 2300 and 0700 can be applied to the whole of Berkshire , it becomes possible to estimate the number of night visits which would have been claimable by using the definition of a night visit which applied before April 1990 . |
| 14 | And with the help of naturalists and ecologists ( and some of the best are very much aware of these added dimensions to their subjects ) it becomes possible to do consciously what has so far remained in the instinctive realm . |
| 15 | It becomes possible to think of accounting for all the changes in form of early sea-urchin development in terms of a changing pattern of cell contractions and cell contacts . |
| 16 | Indeed , Ramsay 's secret societies , the Nordic League and the Right Club , were so easily penetrated by intelligence agents , and the government has now released some of this material , that when this information is checked against independent sources it becomes possible to present a plausible account of what the British fascists were up to during 1939 and 1940 . |
| 17 | Through collecting up-to-the-minute information on what is selling and what is n't , and then making it available to suppliers via EDI , it becomes possible to achieve a stock replenishment process that is highly responsive to customer demand . |
| 18 | Drawing on the insights identified above — combining the principles of human resource management , management of excellence and total quality management — it becomes possible to propose four principles for human resource management in education ( see Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 19 | With the latter it becomes possible to add your own subtitles to a video programme . |
| 20 | From this progression it becomes possible to consider chronic diseases either as acute illnesses from which we have not been able to recover fully or as arising from the individual having insufficient ‘ energy ’ , for whatever reason , to develop an acute illness and be done with it ! |
| 21 | At this stage it becomes possible to start to draft the types of lists that are shown in Figure 13.3 . |
| 22 | As neural complexity increases , however , it becomes possible to send the signal to a region of the brain which forms a map of the body surface , parts of which have evolved into sensory organs . |
| 23 | Such criticism leads us directly to the higher plains of aestheticism from where it becomes possible to adopt a universal outlook , a point of view based on the sort of timeless values that enable one to study objectively ( unsentimentally , unemotionally and ‘ without rancour ’ ) the lower depths of social reality . |
| 24 | Once a mutation that causes an abnormality is observed , it becomes possible to try and identify and isolate the gene . |
| 25 | It is from this perspective that it becomes possible to understand the basis of the distrust of totalizing systems of knowledge which depend upon theory and concepts , so characteristic of Foucault or Lyotard , both of whom have been predominantly concerned with the attempt to isolate and foreground singularity as opposed to universality . |
| 26 | It becomes possible to imagine other ways of living . |
| 27 | As expounded in Chapter One , mankind 's need for a rational definition of ‘ god ’ is obvious , but before it becomes possible to produce an interpretation with any real meaning , there are two assumptions , already enlarged upon in this book , which must be accepted as fact . |
| 28 | By examining the two dimensions , it becomes possible to identify a range of leadership styles and their practical implications : |
| 29 | If we consider sources of stress as ‘ stressors ’ which build up to form a number of pressures , then it becomes possible to identify where stress is coming from and what it can ultimately lead us to . |
| 30 | It becomes possible to feel that a compromise has been reached . |