Example sentences of "[prep] it become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the antarctic ice-cap is estimated to contain 90% of the world 's water , only a tiny fraction of it becomes available each year for living material . |
| 2 | For , if people and Parliament come to think that the judicial power is to be confined by nothing other than the judge 's sense of what is right ( or , as Selden put it , by the length of the Chancellor 's foot ) , confidence in the judicial system will be replaced by fear of it becoming uncertain and arbitrary in its application . |
| 3 | Thanks to our twice weekly lessons , Olivia and I had now become confident enough in Hindi for the practice of it to become enjoyable rather than tiresome — if only because people were so surprised to hear any non-Indian speak even the most stumbling version of it . |
| 4 | As the cost of Eurofighter increases does there come a point where like the F twenty two i it becomes unaffordable and by how much would the performance of Eurofighter have to be degraded before it becomes equivalent to the nearest alternative ? |
| 5 | If when the main code is read in it becomes scrambled , this will prevent the right checksum value from being obtained , even if only one binary digit has been affected . |
| 6 | But people do live there , though when I moved in it became clear that a third of the flats were empty . |
| 7 | On the weight shift types it is difficult to give the student experience at low ‘ g ’ manoeuvres and the pilots may be badly affected without it becoming obvious . |
| 8 | As the difficulties in holding to it become clear so we examine the exact opposite — its antithesis . |
| 9 | All the intriguing questions which were asked at the time , not least as to why she contributed , either deliberately or through naivety , to it becoming one of the sporting mysteries of the year in the first place , will have to remain unanswered . |
| 10 | The Council had resolved to prepare a plan prior to it becoming mandatory . |
| 11 | Today , a large proportion of the EC research budget is devoted to industrial projects , especially in the development of basic technology prior to it becoming marketable . |
| 12 | As the proportion of central support began to fall dramatically , local authority dependence on it became clearer . |
| 13 | Hugh , who had worn the uniform of a verderer for less than a twelvemonth , was no use to them as a guide and as the day grew on it became evident that his arm was causing him a great deal of pain . |
| 14 | The oil crisis in all East European member states of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) , sparked off in July by the unilateral Soviet decision to cut deliveries in the third quarter of 1990 , worsened considerably in October as it became obvious that the Soviet Union would fail to make promised fourth quarter deliveries in full . |
| 15 | Genette speaks of this change in emphasis as a restoration of equilibrium in literary studies : ‘ Literature had long enough been regarded as a message without a code for it to become necessary to regard it for a time as a code without a message ( 1982 : 7 ) . |
| 16 | We were n't enclosed long enough for it to become worrying and I got a real adrenaline rush when at one point one side of the passage was replaced by empty space leading to a huge open chamber . |
| 17 | Some European legislation , e.g. directives , requires further legislative or administrative action by the authorities of member states for it to become effective . |
| 18 | However , it seems plausible that this source of energy has been of little importance in the past because Jupiter is so very massive that it probably formed very hot , though Jupiter may now be sufficiently cool for helium separation to have recently become significant , or for it to become significant in the relatively near future . |
| 19 | In fact , mahogany had been known in England since Sir Walter Raleigh 's day but it took the French ban for it to become popular . |
| 20 | Contact with it turns new wine sour , crops touched by it become barren , grafts die , seeds in gardens are dried up , the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled , hives of bees die , even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust , and a horrible smell fills the air ; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison … |
| 21 | At — 0.7 V it becomes neutral and the resistance rises . |