Example sentences of "become [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | With twelve children to her credit , she became pregnant for the thirteenth time by a British soldier . |
| 3 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 4 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 5 | Last Thursday their problems became public for the first time when Allen began a legal battle for custody of three of their children . |
| 6 | And so it was actually becoming dangerous at the same time . |
| 7 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 8 | Demand is growing , so the sight of wild boar wallowing in the mud could become commonplace for the first time since the sixteenth century . |
| 9 | The rule is expected to come into force in 1988 when post-1939 buildings will become eligible for the first time . |
| 10 | If a vacant position is not immediately available , reassignment might still be considered if the employer knows of a position which will become vacant within a reasonable time . |
| 11 | It is that the view of Anglo-American finance as a casino full of rapacious capitalists has become popular at the same time as those countries ' companies were being taken over by the people themselves . |
| 12 | Financial compensation became available for the first time for criminal injuries ; the community service order raised hopes as an alternative to custody ; and an elaborate system of parole , later greatly expanded , was instituted . |
| 13 | Shortly after incitement to racial hatred became criminal for the first time in 1965 , for example , some commentators questioned whether Jewish persons were covered by the Act , pointing to the argument that the Jewish community has a religious rather than a racial identity . |
| 14 | The inevitability of death becomes real for the first time . |
| 15 | If more than one guard becomes ready at the same time , the choice of which one to execute is nondeterministic ( there is no left-to-right precedence rule as with IF ) . |
| 16 | Sam became aware for the first time how bad he smelled . |
| 17 | He became communicative for the first time . |
| 18 | She was n't likely to become enchanted for the second time this evening — her common sense would see to that . |
| 19 | At just about the same time , a cigar-gnawing chief executive thousands of miles away was shredding his meticulously planned TV schedules to find a slot for a homely Australian series which was to become one of the all time surprise hits , turning many of its stars into instant celebrities . |
| 20 | It 's an opportunity for the company to become efficient at the same time , to have new life injected into it , to bring on and develop talented younger people who might otherwise become stifled and consequently up and go . |