Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the early 1970s it became apparent that the Soviet Union had become engaged in a much more competitive effort to acquire overseas facilities for similar functions to American ones . |
| 2 | A further area for the media group to check is the loss of circulation due to strikes or other problems : during the continuing difficulties that beset Fleet Street in the early eighties it became standard practice for papers affected to provide a rebate for lost circulation . |
| 3 | In the early 1960s it became clear that compulsory continuing education was actually becoming a hindrance to recruitment . |
| 4 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 5 | By the late 1970s it became obvious that the petro-dollar surplus was not going to destroy the international monetary system . |
| 6 | By late 1987 it claimed 3,200 of the 7,000 train driving staff , and was confident enough to launch paralysing one-day strikes in support of its demands . |
| 7 | Emerging in the late sixties it took several forms : informal consciousness-raising groups were set up ; women 's campaigns were run in support of abortion , battered women , women in employment , and of oppressed women in different parts of the world ; and women found their own voice in establishing their own magazines and publishing houses . |
| 8 | In the late 1980s it became clear from the work of several labs that drugs which inhibited this enzyme could block LTP . |