Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it soon became apparent to Sarah , if not Peter , that this was what it was . |
| 2 | It soon became apparent to Edward that they were not en route for Westminster . |
| 3 | It soon became apparent to Lily that the wife and the young man were in the midst of an affaire , which by secret signs and language they seemed able to carry on during the journey . |
| 4 | Soon after 1600 on Sunday 6 October 1990 a dramatic change in weather conditions led to hurricane-force northerly winds along the east coast of Scotland , and it soon became clear to Coastguards that a number of divers had been caught at sea . |
| 5 | Less controversially , it soon becomes apparent to personnel involved in course and presenter evaluation that student respondents rarely assign very poor ratings , or make extremely negative comments , even when other indicators such as colleague judgement suggest that a course has been presented particularly poorly . |
| 6 | In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) . |
| 7 | The visitors were Arsenal and , while it still seems unfair to single out teams in this way , the intensity of attiude recorded by the referee 's hidden microphone made it easier to understand what happened last Saturday . |
| 8 | The Tories ' share of the vote is not as high as in the 1950s under Winston Churchill , Sir Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan , but it now appears impregnable to attacks by the other parties . |
| 9 | It typically costs 4 to 75% of the excess , and is usually payable as a one off lump sum . |
| 10 | However , after the initial account of his feelings , the narrator uses 'sand " in much the same way as " flock " in the passage describing Lok : it too seems closer to underlexicalisation than to metaphor . |