Example sentences of "then it [verb] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it became apparent that the advertised service to London every 15 minutes had been reduced to a 30-minute service . |
| 2 | Then it became apparent that she was holding to some other lodestar . |
| 3 | Then it became obvious that she was in trouble . |
| 4 | Finally , foreign museums started contacting the Ministry of Culture and asking if they could buy , let us say , a picture by Malévich or Popova , and then it became clear that I had the pictures . |
| 5 | For if there really is only one version of good primary practice then it becomes obvious that everyone should subscribe to it . |
| 6 | If one adds to this one other incontrovertible fact — that the overwhelming majority of women have lived their lives without economic freedom or autonomy , but as dependants or chattels lacking control over the crucial fixed aspects of their own lives — then it becomes clear that the chameleon nature of women is their necessary self-protection . |
| 7 | If the word Gruyère on the packet can induce people to buy the product in question ( I have tasted it ; and it seems only fair to say that of its kind it is of a matchless ignobility ) then it becomes clear that it is a too innocent belief in authenticity and the efficacy of the ancient formula which has made us such easy victims of the purveyors of the farmyard-fresh Surrey chicken from the battery house , the mountain-brook trout from the breeding tank , via the deep-freeze , the hedgerow-ripened blackberry pie-filling out of the cardboard box . |
| 8 | But if we now recall the alternative definition of democracy as popular power , or popular sovereignty , then it becomes clear that it can not be a democratic act for the people to vote away their own power and their own rights ; any more than if I freely renounce my freedom I can remain free because the renunciation was a free act . |
| 9 | Then it becomes clear that politicians , for example , can be involved in processes of policy-making , implementation , evaluation and adjudication . |
| 10 | If , as he further suggests , characterisation " involves the manifestation of inner states , desires , motives , intentions , beliefs through action , including speech acts " ( 1988 : 226 ) , then it becomes clear that the methods of analysing conversational behaviour in the real world are also readily applicable to the world of the dramatic work . |
| 11 | Unless the starfish really is being enhanced by some change of circumstance ( for example by fertilizer from the mainland ) then it seems inconceivable that there have not been similar outbreaks in the past . |
| 12 | Once it is made clear that the judge makes new law in these circumstances , as conventionalism insists , then it seems plausible that he should choose the rule he believes the actual legislature then in power would choose , or , failing that , the rule he believes best represents the will of the people as a whole . |
| 13 | If there is undetected contamination in the Esk , then it seems likely that other areas of the west coast are also contaminated without showing up in official statistics , Mr Green says . |
| 14 | If types of industry could be defined more sharply then it seems likely that although by 1970 British industry matched the international pattern , this had occurred as the result of some substantial relative shifts in employment in the UK over the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 15 | Overall then it seems likely that the motivation and commitment which is found among many mature students is a major factor in the success of many students with non-traditional qualifications . |