Example sentences of "it became [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly it became economic to pay recording artists large fees ; and without mass-production , few recordings of top artists would survive in playable form today . |
| 2 | Better to gamble that a private collector would keep the car until it became rare enough to warrant accepting it , if it were offered later . |
| 3 | But for the institutions , he said , the initial aim would be to introduce a ten-day , rolling settlement system which could be reduced in stages as it became practical , first to five days and then to three days . |
| 4 | But the rise of the PLO made the whole issue more dangerous and complex , partly because it became unclear whether the majority of people in the West Bank wanted either Jordan or the PLO back , and partly because Jordan 's East Bank population was 40 per cent Palestinian . |
| 5 | The mass media should be free to expose torture before it became institutionalised . |
| 6 | In trying to be all things to all men it became over-complex . ’ |
| 7 | It became easy for The Smiths to retain their true audience . |
| 8 | After only two visits , however , the novelty wore off , and it was patently obvious that Jeopardy and his partner were oblivious of his presence ; it became easy to ignore theirs . |
| 9 | Thus the courts were clearly subservient to the commands of the Communist Party , although it should be noted that the degree of independence available to the courts has varied over time : in the 1930s it was minimal , but after 1956 it became greater . |
| 10 | During a study of the various styles , it became apparent to me that if the back legs are set into the seat rails at an angle , this angle , together with the curvature of the rear legs and backward slope of the chair back can regulate the flair : if the legs are mounted at right angles to the rear seat rail , there would be no flair . |
| 11 | ‘ All three of us looked down the embankment and it became apparent there was a body there , ’ he said . |
| 12 | By November 1985 it became apparent that the real antagonists were neither the Westland company nor British Aerospace , but Michael Heseltine , as a vigorous champion of the European link , and Mrs Thatcher . |
| 13 | After the meeting of the Cabinet held that same Sunday evening , when it became apparent that agreement could not be reached on the economy package , MacDonald , on his way to the palace , told Sir Ernest Harvey , the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England : ‘ I am off to the Palace to throw in my hand . ' |
| 14 | In other words , the Conservative party , and its propertied core constituency , became interested in new forms of appeal and organization when it became apparent that the political reliability and social stability of the lower orders could no longer be ensured by traditional methods of social and political control . |
| 15 | Then it became apparent that the advertised service to London every 15 minutes had been reduced to a 30-minute service . |
| 16 | In addition their captain Brian Smith persisted with his wayward goal-kicking long after it became apparent that he should pass the task to someone else . |
| 17 | Gradually , it became apparent that this lady was definitely part of David 's life . |
| 18 | When New Zealand Search and Rescue authorities carried out several extensive air searches for survivors , it became apparent that as many as 50 or more Japanese drift-netters were concentrated in a small area of the Tasman Sea , fishing for albacore tuna . |
| 19 | This strategy was scrapped when it became apparent that the government needed to take some action before the students revved up again for another outbreak of violence . |
| 20 | When it became apparent that he must be dead , Casey gave orders to recover the body for proper burial ; this became another item in the wish-lists exchanged with the Iranians . |
| 21 | It became apparent about this time that the economy was also slowing down . ’ |
| 22 | Their hopes were short-lived however when at a subsequent meeting it became apparent that the study was to concentrate on settlement patterns in the region , ( a well-worn path taken in an attempt to justify existing policies advocating the centralisation of rural development ) , rather than the more fundamental questions of how existing patterns of land ownership influence these settlement patterns . |
| 23 | In fact , it became apparent that opportunities to implement this suggestion were extremely limited . |
| 24 | In attempting to relate this schema to social work in child care , it became apparent that the secondary level includes a very wide spectrum of client situations and work undertaken . |
| 25 | With the discovery of better-preserved material it became apparent that the graptolites consisted of rows of tiny cups which were interconnected by a common canal — they were colonial animals . |
| 26 | However , in less formal talks with conductors and lecturers , and in a discussion led by Dr Maria Hari , it became apparent that in fact there are some concessions . |
| 27 | As more and more stone-filled gabions were built in to reduce the erosion which the scheme had set in train , it became apparent that Pandora 's box had been opened , and that what might have worked as a piece of traditional river canalization in the cohesive sediments found downstream had proved a recipe for disaster when applied in the unstable gravels of this upland brook . |
| 28 | But , when taken in conjunction with procedures governing Urban Programme funding , it became apparent that three divisions of urban local councils , or ‘ designated districts ’ , were to be established . |
| 29 | As the first set of declaration reports were produced , it became apparent that development within the zones would not be significantly different from what would have occurred anyway ( Corby District Council , 1981 ; Newcastle upon Tyne , 1981 ; Swansea City Council , 1981 ) : planning controls were often retained along zone boundaries ; Special Industrial Uses , including noxious and dangerous processes , were still subject to control ; and , on occasion , environmental improvements were written into declaration reports . |
| 30 | For example , having expanded components 1.0 to 7.0 of the model shown in Fig 12.5 , it became apparent that the main input to sub-system 8.0 ( ie ‘ adjust income/expenditure ’ ) was the detail of the College allocation of the total budget , with secondary inputs of information about the actual costs of providing the appropriate level of education . |