Example sentences of "[adj] it had become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1873 it had become illegal to have in one 's possession in the mine a ferrous metal pricker or scraper . |
| 2 | By 1916 it had become obvious that the war was not likely to be over for some time and the government round that it was necessary to introduce military conscription in place of voluntary conscription , in order to ensure replacement of the thousands of soldiers being killed and wounded on the battlefields . |
| 3 | Its original foundation as an Oxford Delegacy WEA branch pre-dated the formation of the District and in 1919 its membership exceeded seventy-five , but by 1923 it had become dormant . |
| 4 | By 1986 it had become evident that these fears had , to some extent , been realized . |
| 5 | However , by 1986 it had become evident that the collapse in manufacturing had been so severe that alternative approaches based on tourism and retailing should be given much greater prominence ( MDC , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | The advent of relatively cheap microelectronics meant that by the late 1960s it had become possible to control these machines by dedicated mini- or micro-computers directly attached to them , such machines having ‘ computer numerically control ’ or CNC . |
| 7 | At Batavia , the pall of ash took a fair while to arrive ; in the early morning of the twenty-seventh , the sky was clear , but by 10.15 it had become lurid and yellowish as the ash spread across the sky ; by 10.30 the first fine ash was actually sifting softly down on to the streets . |
| 8 | By 1915 it had become one of the obsessions by which Curtis was possessed serially in the course of his long and active career , and , of all his many projects , the political evolution of India was the one where he could most truly claim to have made a direct contribution to events . |