Example sentences of "it [adv] become possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | It thus becomes possible , through writing , to specialise language , to use it to serve a specific function rather than conflating different functions . |
| 2 | Once the individual begins to establish regularities , to generalise over experience , it becomes possible for him not only to recognise a particular experience as being one of a type , say a scolding or an interview , it also becomes possible to predict what is likely to happen , what are likely to be the relevant features of context , within a particular type of communicative event . |
| 3 | Under these altered conditions , emulation is increasingly significant as a strategy by means of which people lower in a given social hierarchy attempt to realize their aspirations towards higher status by modifying their behaviour , their dress and the kind of goods they purchase , since it now becomes possible to mistake a poor nobleman for a wealthy trader . |
| 4 | To the dismay of record-collectors , it now became possible to piece together a collection of imperfect bits to make a complete note-perfect performance . |
| 5 | Indeed , it now became possible for even the temporary and seasonal migrations of Italian or Irish harvesters or railway builders to extend across the oceans . |
| 6 | Real power remained in the hands of the union delegations but it now became possible for the local parties to ensure that their opinions were more effectively voiced . |
| 7 | It even became possible to consider that the horse might also have a mind ! |
| 8 | During the Sixties and Seventies the systems gradually improved , the computer parts got more powerful and cheaper and it even became possible to get some sort of an idea as to what the page might look like . |
| 9 | The discovery of X-ray diffraction in 1912 made a significant difference too : it then became possible to determine unambiguously whether a small , hard crystal was indeed a diamond . |
| 10 | The result was that it then became possible to record the data on a continuous re-circulating loop of tape that would last for 25 hours before being erased and used again . |
| 11 | It then becomes possible to formulate generalizations on what might be described as the sociolinguistic typology of low-status versus relatively standardized , higher-status phonological systems . |
| 12 | And once the people have disappeared , it then becomes possible to manipulate the ‘ population ’ in your mind as if it were any other variable in a mathematical equation . |
| 13 | And once the people have disappeared , it then becomes possible to manipulate the ‘ population ’ in your mind as if it were any other variable in a mathematical equation . |