Example sentences of "[adv] that it become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said that he constructed a tank and poured into it molten gold so that it became one vast molten block . |
| 2 | The tapered frame of the original pattern was straightened and made broader so that it became rectangular in design . |
| 3 | The tapered frame of the original pattern was straightened and made broader so that it became rectangular in design . |
| 4 | Martin Luther King had a vision as personal and private as the sleeping child or the cross-legged meditator , but he turned it outward as a prayer for peace so that it became shared . |
| 5 | As a routine measure , you should open your dog 's mouth each week , so that it becomes used to this procedure . |
| 6 | This is a major system of burrows , all interlinking so that it becomes necessary to work on all aspects of the warren at one time . |
| 7 | Even if you are confident of your ability to manage a compost heap so that it becomes hot enough to cleanse itself of disease spores , there remains the risk of the subsequent compost matter containing thorns which are extremely resistant to decomposition . |
| 8 | This is somewhat like making the target broader so that it becomes easier to hit . |
| 9 | Hence the procedure for converting an equation so that it becomes valid in accelerating frames can be expressed pithily as : ‘ replace commas by semicolons ’ . |
| 10 | You should repeat the puppy 's name at every opportunity within its hearing , so that it becomes accustomed to the sound . |
| 11 | Where Federman and Sukenick replace finished story with the process of narrating so that it becomes difficult to say what their novels are ‘ about ’ , Rudolph Wurlitzer pursues a rather different task in his fiction . |
| 12 | Technological hazards are more unpredictable and may be extremely rare , so that it becomes difficult to use probability concepts to quantify risk , especially those which rely on notions of relative frequency . |
| 13 | Another , and perhaps the worst aspect is that the wind has the habit of blowing debris into the net so that it becomes entangled and this too limits its catching ability . |
| 14 | The broadcaster who gave a complicated radio talk on a technical subject was wasting his time , for no one listened to him — a point which came over in interviews so often that it became indisputable . |
| 15 | Correctly named Limnanthes douglasii , the seed is readily available and , when conditions suit , it seeds itself so readily that it becomes self-perpetuating and can even become invasive . |
| 16 | After the initial impetus has run out , he wrote , and before one has got in so far that it is easier to finish than to go back , it is then that it becomes hard to be sure of your footing , hard to know why you are doing what you are doing , hard to know if you are doing correctly what you are doing . |
| 17 | The work itself has maintained an almost subterranean existence in footnotes and references in many other works , yet it was not until comparatively recently that it became accessible to the non-specialist reader . |
| 18 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |