Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it became necessary to provide therapy for those unable to achieve the same kind of performance . |
| 2 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 3 | And it became fashionable to market records in various editions , with alternative sound mixes and different lengths , editions pressed on coloured vinyl , editions incorporating pictures , and editions in funny shapes . |
| 4 | That would include such areas as Burma , the northern part of Indo-China , if it became desirable to suppress communism in that country . ’ |
| 5 | The only exception was in war periods when it became customary to meet part of the additional spending through borrowing . |
| 6 | This curious conclusion set at nought the work on distribution done by Brown , Humboldt , Darwin and Wallace , and by the botanists Joseph Hooker of Kew and Asa Gray of Harvard ; they had found all sorts of curious patterns , of which it seemed possible to make sense in terms of migrations , barriers and ice ages . |
| 7 | It seemed undesirable to use force against the Yugoslavs at the moment , but incidents could occur or be provoked , and clear instructions should be issued soon as to whether Alexander should order Eighth Army to close the Austrian frontier to the Yugoslavs and eject them from Carinthia , which would of course mean by force . |
| 8 | With the family reaching working age it seemed sensible to take advantage of the expanding market for organic produce and increase the chances of supporting them all from the farm . |
| 9 | And by dusk were back in autumn ; it seemed sensible to make camp in this gentler landscape , but during the night an odd wind fetched up and snow fell , followed by an appallingly humid heat . |
| 10 | We had such happy family holidays in the drizzle waiting for the sun to try and come out that it seemed churlish to spoil things with science . |
| 11 | But Lewis is shattered it proved impossible to agree terms with new champion Riddick Bowe , who on January 2 will be stripped of the WBC version . |
| 12 | They would live on desert racetracks linking up shelters ; it proved impossible to get hold of enough desert from angry human inhabitants . |
| 13 | The principal remaining air link for Baghdad had been Iraqi Airlines flights to Amman , Jordan , and Jordan stated that it would comply with the mandatory resolution ; it remained illegal to open fire on civil aircraft . |
| 14 | While the Combination Laws of 1799 and 1800 , enacted as a response to a fear of the spread of revolution from the continent , had been notoriously ineffective , prudence remained the order of the day even after their repeal in 1824 , and it remained convenient to take advantage of friendly society legislation . |