Example sentences of "when it became [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew how to get a product that was decent and rather unexciting on to the shop floor , but when it became necessary to add more to that product and to innovate in design terms , he did n't know how to go about it . |
| 2 | Haslam learned the hard way how to handle such a traumatic situation and how to some extent to play God when it became necessary to select the people who had to go . |
| 3 | The Chief Whip was prepared , when it became necessary , to make parliamentary time available on the delightful ground that ‘ We have got to occupy the parliamentary members somehow during the war . ’ |
| 4 | Since the advent of phylloxera , when it became necessary to graft all European vines on to American rootstock , literally hundreds of rootstock varieties have been developed for virtually every permutation of vinestock and growing conditions . |
| 5 | Council put the central heating in when we got advanced in years and when it became necessary in the doctor 's opinion for me to have central heating because I had a heart complaint . |
| 6 | And a firm run by Ralph Willie Raynes , which used to supply most of our goods , would allow extended credit when it became necessary . |
| 7 | Frequently , they expressed a sympathy for guerrilla activities and direct action , without recognizing that successful guerrilla movements were either controlled by an organized and disciplined party ( as in China ) or turned themselves into a traditional type of party ( as in Cuba ) when it became necessary to consolidate their rule and implement their policies . |
| 8 | ‘ The trouble is that ever since the mid-80s , when it became illegal to import them , tortoise numbers have fallen . |
| 9 | Emily Halliday was one of the first girls to join the school when it became co-educational . |
| 10 | This was because I thought that the universe had to return to a smooth and ordered state when it became small again . |
| 11 | Eleanor was nearly twice the age he felt he deserved , and it had been his ambition for a long time to have a girl just at the point when it became legal . |
| 12 | I knew a guy who made a fortune out of CB radio when it became legal in Britain . |
| 13 | In other words , the Conservative party , and its propertied core constituency , became interested in new forms of appeal and organization when it became apparent that the political reliability and social stability of the lower orders could no longer be ensured by traditional methods of social and political control . |
| 14 | This strategy was scrapped when it became apparent that the government needed to take some action before the students revved up again for another outbreak of violence . |
| 15 | When it became apparent that he must be dead , Casey gave orders to recover the body for proper burial ; this became another item in the wish-lists exchanged with the Iranians . |
| 16 | When it became apparent to the teacher that Sherman was intent on proceeding to the gorilla area , it became necessary to say ‘ No . ’ |
| 17 | Glynn 's fax duly arrived and when it became apparent that the wiring was beyond the skills of a cack-handed caveman they promptly offered to collect the guitar ( I only live in Aberdeen ! ) , modify it and return it within a few working days . |
| 18 | Kubrick was also responsible for casting Jean Simmons in the film when it became apparent that the actress originally chosen was inadequate . |
| 19 | The former holder of four world titles scored two knockdowns but there were boos in the late rounds when it became apparent that Duran , 41 , would n't win by a knockout . |
| 20 | A science founds itself , Canguilhem suggests , on its method : ‘ When it became apparent that every science more or less gives itself its given , and thereby appropriates what is called its domain , the concept of a science began to place more emphasis on method than on object ’ ( 1980 : 38 ) . |
| 21 | He was joined by Peter Sheppard a few years later when it became apparent that so much information was potentially available from flight recorders that it needed another man to help interpret all the data . |
| 22 | DEC quit looking for an Alpha RISC second source when it became apparent foundries were n't willing to make the kind of investment needed without knowing whether the thing was really going to take off , says Electronic News . |
| 23 | When it became apparent that the land was too small to construct a museum on , the Terras bought a three and a half acre site opposite the Monet gardens . |
| 24 | Well , if you are typical of your birth sign , you will have already made up your mind and taken your leave around August 6th , when it became apparent that certain associates had sided against you or even gone so far as to hatch some kind of plot . |
| 25 | In the first instance decision of Harvey [ 1988 ] Crim.L.R. 241 , a confession of murder made by a psychopathically disordered woman was , it is submitted , rightly excluded when it became apparent that she might have been motivated by a childlike desire to protect her lover , whom she had over-heard confessing to the same offence . |
| 26 | General practitioners were enticed to join the fundholding scheme by the promise of new freedoms in their gatekeeping role , but when it became apparent that their potential to destabilise the system threatened other aspects of the reforms regional health authorities were told to ‘ manage the market ’ to ensure that the stability of hospitals was not threatened . |
| 27 | When it became apparent that learners were not mastering grammatical structures by this method , pattern practice was introduced , and with the advent of language learning laboratories , the student spent much of his time listening to and mechanically repeating drills . |
| 28 | Jared and Mary Tunstall had arrived at last in London , summoned by Orrin when it became apparent that Sally-Anne could not be traced . |
| 29 | Even the supposedly rigid ‘ external financing limits ’ imposed by the post-1979 Conservative government in Britain have proved to be flexible in practice ( Heald and Steel 1981 ) , with targets being adjusted when it became apparent that they would not be met . |
| 30 | Traditionally the practice has been to abandon old pits when it became uneconomic to go deeper , but to return to them when the price for clay improved or when a technical innovation made extraction cheaper . |