Example sentences of "[noun] and it [verb] clear " in BNC.

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1 Her shoulders sagged in defeat and it became clear to the watching man that she accepted their veracity .
2 The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits .
3 The accident caused considerable consternation and it became clear , talking to the members present at the launch point , that many pilots did not really understand all the factors which caused the accident .
4 Some people had expressed the view that this trip came too close to the Central Wales Line excursion and it seemed clear that we would not get enough people to justify the expense of a coach .
5 For though the machine has its critics and it seems clear that not everybody can adjust to its speed and voraciousness , one incontrovertible fact emerges : the machine can generate wealth of such volume as the world has never dreamt .
6 These results were backed by solid gains at local elections and it became clear that the Nationalists had made substantial inroads into the Labour vote , at any rate between general elections .
7 Wilson would talk at great length and it became clear to me that the number of people in whom he could confide safely was very small ; in fact it was clear that he had few , if any , complete political friends .
8 But after a while , the roads on his map began to criss-cross each other in a crazy fashion and it became clear that he had forgotten the geography of his land .
9 They were known as the Cedar Boys and it became clear that nearly all of them had been orphaned as the Third Reich took its terrible toll on European Jewry .
10 ‘ I read the letters between him and his brother and it became clear he could n't even buy petrol on the New Jersey turnpike without writing to the petrol company about being over-charged .
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