Example sentences of "it become possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became possible to change trains again at the Welsh mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog . |
| 2 | When I understood the reason for my compulsive shopping , it became possible — though not easy — to stop . |
| 3 | ‘ By forming groups such as ours , ’ says Rona , ‘ it became possible for people who would never otherwise have met , to compare ideas . ’ |
| 4 | This period was fixed at ten years , and so it became possible , after the beginning of 1936 , to extend compulsory registration to any county in England and Wales . |
| 5 | To return to my burglary , it became possible to make alternative arrangements : to let family members know and to replace the presents with other things made available by other people or by just acknowledging that they would be replaced when the insurance money came through ! |
| 6 | Gradually it became possible to stop her for a few seconds , and then to ask her to start walking again before her anxiety rose and she reared . |
| 7 | Initially this new German ‘ victory ’ weapon proved unnerving but before long it became possible for the ‘ V1s ’ to be intercepted by fighter aircraft over the sea , although their speed was a problem , but by moving the bulk of the anti-aircraft artillery units to the Isle of Wight and along the southern coastline of England , it was possible to shoot them down before they reached the London area . |
| 8 | Certainly if it became possible to detect problems earlier in the pregnancy it would make it easier for mothers to abort their children . |
| 9 | Other instruments were invented which recorded the actions of the heart and the flow in the vessels , and it became possible to investigate how the whole system was regulated throughout all the different activities of life . |
| 10 | Once it became possible to lower a patient 's blood pressure substantially , it was not merely of academic interest to know whether the raised blood pressure was really ‘ essential ’ , that is necessary to maintain a sufficient flow of blood through narrowed arteries to vital organs , and , if it was , whether modest treatment ( to ward off the obvious hazards of strokes or heart failure ) could be tolerated . |
| 11 | Once it had been opened , it became possible to test patients ' sera in parallel , thereby convincing other doctors that their tests could be improved . |
| 12 | The remaining 90 per cent of cases remained an obstinate mystery until the middle fifties , when it became possible to culture this obscure organism on the yolk-sac of the chicken embryo . |
| 13 | ( By 1983 , fashion had become so disjointed anyway — it became possible to achieve the look and sound of any youth cult movement since the forties and still remain firmly in vogue ) . |
| 14 | Most OECD countries are over-banked and also with the development of international money markets it became possible for banks to seek a wider source of deposits for their lending operations . |
| 15 | ‘ 16-bit ’ audio has a signal-to-noise ratio which comfortably exceeds the full dynamic range of an orchestra , so it became possible to record orchestral music without any need to compress its dynamic range . |
| 16 | It was not long before a cheaper method of making it became possible . |
| 17 | Instead , it became possible for the Poles to compete on the open market and to bid against the Commission with capital made available by the Polish banks . |
| 18 | It was not until 1836 that it became possible to measure the amount of sugar left in a wine after the first fermentation , when Professor Francois of Châlons-sur-Marne published his Nouvelles observations sur la fermentation de vin en bouteilles , suivies d'un procédé pour reconnaître la quantité de sucre contenu dans le vin immédiatement avant tirage . |
| 19 | It was not until the Life Peerages Act 1958 that it became possible for a woman to be created a life peer and sit and not until the Peerage Act 1963 that hereditary peeresses in their own right were allowed to join them . |
| 20 | By the late 1920s when it became possible to send cars away to Hendon for a thorough overhaul , they were all in really tired condition . |
| 21 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 22 | When it became possible to study the German foreign office records after 1945 , says an American scholar , ‘ tests did not reveal essential documents … that were not printed by the editors of Die grosse Politia , [ but ] they did reveal that the editors , in making their selection , were influenced by a desire not to make the task of the rulers of the Weimar Republic more difficult , and not to injure the reputation of foreign statesmen who were still active after World War I and who were sympathetic to Germany ’ . |
| 23 | Loans were handled as the National Debt rather than the royal debt and it became possible to raise long-term loans with the authority of Parliament behind them , and even to float loans on terms which meant that the principal would never be repaid but that , because the interest would be paid regularly forever , it would be possible to treat the bond for the debt as an asset which could be bought and sold . |
| 24 | With the isolation of the gene responsible for Duchenne muscular dystrophy it became possible to track the defective gene in most pedigrees and to offer increasingly accurate prenatal diagnosis either by deletion analysis in many cases or by using linked markers . |
| 25 | It became possible to instil the drill , discipline , and skills required to make the army an effective fighting force . |
| 26 | It became possible to standardize the matériel and develop strategy in a way that had been beyond Muscovy 's capabilities . |
| 27 | In these new circumstances of ‘ open parties ’ and ‘ participatory politics ’ it became possible for outsiders to seize nominations irrespective of the wishes of party leaders , and Jimmy Carter proved to be just such a candidate . |
| 28 | SDRs could now be used more freely among participating countries : it became possible to use them to settle obligations without changing them first into currencies ; they could be loaned to other countries ; and they could be used as a security for a loan by another central bank or government . |
| 29 | With each generation of computer technology , the physical space taken up by the electronic components has become smaller and smaller , until with the introduction of large-scale integration ( LSI ) it became possible to fit thousands of components onto a silicon chip less than a quarter of an inch square . |
| 30 | In fact , it was only as a consequence of this earlier work of literary , linguistic , and historical categorizing that it became possible for a sense of national and vernacular " ancestry " to challenge the cultural and educational rule of the classical languages and literatures . |