Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] it become [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Commissioner for Agriculture it became clear to him that the task ahead was not going to be easy . |
2 | Before phylloxera , it had not been necessary to prune and train , although vine training systems were widely practised — after phylloxera it became essential . |
3 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
4 | The hull was unrecognisable as such ; half out of water it became unidentifiable debris . |
5 | And once we take notice that in reality individual holdings in companies , other than in exceptional cases , give the holder negligible rights of control it becomes clear that ownership of corporate property could make no distinctive contribution to the realisation of whatever individual interests might be specified . |
6 | In the course of argument it became apparent that there was a potential issue as to the precise causal nexus between the acts and omissions alleged in the statement of claim and the physical consequences of those acts and omissions . |
7 | From these sorts of consideration it became clear that light is made up of lots of particles . |
8 | Communist regimes , by pointing at high growth rates , could once justify this squeeze on the consumer as an investment for the future , but with low rates of growth it becomes obvious to a work force that gratification is being denied rather than simply deferred . |
9 | When we examine a specific case from these different points of view it becomes obvious that they may all contribute to our understanding . |
10 | But in meeting with Kosygin it became clear to Razak that the Soviet Union would prefer its own larger collective security agreement , which would embrace Japan , Pakistan and India as well as the smaller states . |
11 | With time it became clear that the new region was too distant from Tornsk to be controlled with ease . |
12 | You will appreciate there is n't much point in training a bird to do this if every time you enter a different environment or a stranger comes into view it becomes hysterical . |
13 | In fact it became clear that a considerable part of the defence was going to be that of justification , that the laws and usages of war permitted reprisals to be taken against hostages . |
14 | In fact it becomes two articles — one for punchcard machines still called ‘ Simply Silver ’ and one for electronics featured separately as ‘ Silver Scene ’ . |
15 | Once mother-infant interactions came to be studied in detail it became clear that we needed to reshape radically our ideas about socialization-about how children are integrated into a social world . |
16 | In time it became customary to grant more than one reversion to an office , so that a queue of expectant administrators could be seen waiting to step successively into a dead man 's shoes . |
17 | If we do not review our knowledge from time to time it becomes lost to us and we find ourselves thinking within a shrinking field . |