Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company had to halt as it became impossible to make any progress through the press of bodies . |
| 2 | As printers became more powerful , it became necessary to send more control information to them , such as to set margin widths or select fonts . |
| 3 | ‘ 16-bit ’ audio has a signal-to-noise ratio which comfortably exceeds the full dynamic range of an orchestra , so it became possible to record orchestral music without any need to compress its dynamic range . |
| 4 | To return to my burglary , it became possible to make alternative arrangements : to let family members know and to replace the presents with other things made available by other people or by just acknowledging that they would be replaced when the insurance money came through ! |
| 5 | Because of the flying buttress system , it became possible to construct thinner walls as time passed instead of increasing the thickness to offset the large windows and higher vaults . |
| 6 | Loans were handled as the National Debt rather than the royal debt and it became possible to raise long-term loans with the authority of Parliament behind them , and even to float loans on terms which meant that the principal would never be repaid but that , because the interest would be paid regularly forever , it would be possible to treat the bond for the debt as an asset which could be bought and sold . |
| 7 | There were many examples of species occupying territories separated by wide expanses of ocean , and in the 1850s it became fashionable to invoke prehistoric land-bridges to explain the migrations . |
| 8 | In the early 1960s , it became fashionable to criticize British institutions and to say that this country was lagging behind its European competitors in many aspects of modern life from trade union structure to central heating , from the capacity to sell and provide after-sales service abroad to playing football . |
| 9 | I 'm not saying that they are uneconomical , but there may be the odd one or two cases , like the of Berwick St James is a fine example , when it became uneconomical to maintain that school for the number of pupils which were attending , or proposed to be taken in the near future , and it was a sensible option for those children , and economically to close that school . |
| 10 | It seemed strange to make that argument , Mr Cook said , when it was clear the whole policy review process was designed to placate the centre ground . |
| 11 | Once experimental control achieved in laboratory conditions made it possible to demonstrate that the strength of specific behaviours was indeed a function of environmental events , it seemed reasonable to describe such events as reinforcers . |
| 12 | It seemed sensible to reserve each end bay of the roof space for a bedroom , lit by a new window installed either in an adjacent roof-slope or in the flanking gable . |
| 13 | That salary was more than ever a disincentive : it seemed difficult to attract experienced candidates . |
| 14 | Finally , it became clear that no preliminary conference would be possible without widening the discussions unduly , and it seemed best to hold bilateral discussions first . |
| 15 | In Team D it proved impossible to identify sufficient cases . |
| 16 | 64k mode is not covered in the manual at all , unfortunately , and even after experimentation — loading the supplied VGA-BIOS program , which improved things a little — it proved impossible to get correct colour values onscreen . |
| 17 | It proved impossible to get British Telecom round to fix the phone until Thursday afternoon . |
| 18 | On the basis of relatively small samples , only a few thousand in each of selected states , it proved possible to make accurate predictions of the electoral outcomes . |
| 19 | However , it proved difficult to embody this compromise in a satisfactory constitutional formula . |
| 20 | Because of that prominence , it proved difficult to develop that element of compromise and bargaining which would have been essential for integrative success . |
| 21 | As the binary policy gained momentum , it remained possible to have that impression . |