Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , she thought a great deal about what she was going to do long before she began working , and it had become possible for her to execute a painting with great precision . |
| 2 | By by the third Summer I think it had outlived its usefulness and it had become much more like a a mini-goose fair . |
| 3 | Kazakhstan had a very substantial Russian population 37.8 per cent of the total according to the 1989 census , almost as many as the Kazakhs themselves — but it was the home of the great majority of the Soviet Union 's Kazakhs and it had become accepted that the republic 's party and state leadership should be drawn from the national group after whom the republic was named . |
| 4 | And it had become such a popular feature of Samana life . |
| 5 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
| 6 | But as I argued earlier , the various attempts to construct a theory of nationalism have concentrated unduly on the twentieth century , and it has become apparent that a broader historical view needs to be taken if we are to develop an adequate scheme of explanation . |
| 7 | And it has become apparent that the elderly and poor will be most affected . |
| 8 | Charles took up watercolour painting nearly twenty years ago , and it has become one of his greatest pleasures . |
| 9 | In recent years , however , the world sugar prices have slumped and it has become one of the poorest areas in the Philippines . |
| 10 | Britain has been governed by south-east England for the past 13 years , and it has become possible for London and the Home Counties to ignore some aspects of reality . |
| 11 | However , no equipment will last for ever and it started to become obvious that I would need to update before too long . |
| 12 | But it had become impossible for Mr Major to plod on with the same soiled team . |
| 13 | The idea of a woman who would save him was not new , but it had become real , it was no longer fantasy . |
| 14 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 15 | She did n't reject it , but it had become irrelevant , its comfort only a candle which served fitfully to illumine the dark . |
| 16 | Knights too were readily identifiable , but it had become imperative to make provision also for the many untitled men whose wealth was as great or even greater . |
| 17 | He said the Government was reluctant to interfere , but it had become aware of ‘ widespread detestation in Parliament ’ of some trends in the popular press . |
| 18 | The bond which assures the existence of the individual , and provides him with his basic loyalties to his father and brothers and cousins , is also the bond which assures the cohesion of the nations , and then of the world , ‘ but it does become weaker as the numbers become greater ’ . |
| 19 | They were not in fact the same thing — they were two separate things — and up until this point , it seemed like it was all one thing — that MainMan and David were the same — but it began to become apparent that they were n't . |
| 20 | Its impact could probably have been even greater but it ceased to become available to students by 1980 and this was unfortunate when many much less meritorious texts have soldiered on ! |
| 21 | But it has become one of the big post-war economic success stories , with one of the world 's most open trading systems and a business environment not far behind Switzerland , Japan and west Germany . |
| 22 | But it has become difficult to convince those hypochondriacs who also happen to be cat owners that there is no danger . |
| 23 | We have already seen this statement in St John Ackers ' postscript to the 1890 Education Act , but it has become popular again ( Van Uden , 1981 ) . |
| 24 | He has resisted attempts to remove him from the Maine Road board in the past , but it has become clear that Lee 's intervention provided much greater pressure on him to step aside . |
| 25 | We all worked and lived at the same place and it seemed pretty cool to me at the time , but it started to become more and more negative until it got to the point where I wanted to leave … and I realised that they would n't let me ! |