Example sentences of "it [adv] becomes possible " in BNC.

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1 It thus becomes possible , through writing , to specialise language , to use it to serve a specific function rather than conflating different functions .
2 Once the individual begins to establish regularities , to generalise over experience , it becomes possible for him not only to recognise a particular experience as being one of a type , say a scolding or an interview , it also becomes possible to predict what is likely to happen , what are likely to be the relevant features of context , within a particular type of communicative event .
3 Under these altered conditions , emulation is increasingly significant as a strategy by means of which people lower in a given social hierarchy attempt to realize their aspirations towards higher status by modifying their behaviour , their dress and the kind of goods they purchase , since it now becomes possible to mistake a poor nobleman for a wealthy trader .
4 It then becomes possible to formulate generalizations on what might be described as the sociolinguistic typology of low-status versus relatively standardized , higher-status phonological systems .
5 And once the people have disappeared , it then becomes possible to manipulate the ‘ population ’ in your mind as if it were any other variable in a mathematical equation .
6 And once the people have disappeared , it then becomes possible to manipulate the ‘ population ’ in your mind as if it were any other variable in a mathematical equation .
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