Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [to-vb] [noun] " 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 | The full sized engine would then have been worked on until it became feasible to exploit steam engines commercially . |
| 3 | Furthermore , in common with other non-Catholic teachers , they considered that at times when it became essential to redeploy teachers , it would be non-Catholics that would be first in line for re-deployment . |
| 4 | This compromise did not last and it became necessary to appoint Lord Charnwood , President of the NID , as mediator between the BDDA and aggrieved local organisations . |
| 5 | So it became necessary to provide therapy for those unable to achieve the same kind of performance . |
| 6 | Back in Britain , it became necessary to introduce food rationing as the blockade by the German ‘ U ’ boats was having its effect on the supplies of foods from overseas . |
| 7 | Once it had been opened , it became possible to test patients ' sera in parallel , thereby convincing other doctors that their tests could be improved . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | As land gradually ceased to be the major source of middle class wealth , and as salaries became more important , so marriage ceased to be an essentially dynastic settlement between two kin groups and it became possible to grant women more freedom , both emotional ( to marry whom they wished ) and legal , within marriage . |
| 11 | It became possible to change trains again at the Welsh mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog . |
| 12 | During his reign , it became fashionable to use mirrors as decorative features , surrounding them with broad , impressive frames . |
| 13 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 14 | And it became fashionable to market records in various editions , with alternative sound mixes and different lengths , editions pressed on coloured vinyl , editions incorporating pictures , and editions in funny shapes . |
| 15 | That would include such areas as Burma , the northern part of Indo-China , if it became desirable to suppress communism in that country . ’ |
| 16 | Many illustrations described as woodcuts are not , strictly speaking , woodcuts at all since , from about 1830 , it became common to make stereotypes and electrotypes from the original wood blocks , which would stand up to only comparatively small editions . |
| 17 | The only exception was in war periods when it became customary to meet part of the additional spending through borrowing . |
| 18 | This curious conclusion set at nought the work on distribution done by Brown , Humboldt , Darwin and Wallace , and by the botanists Joseph Hooker of Kew and Asa Gray of Harvard ; they had found all sorts of curious patterns , of which it seemed possible to make sense in terms of migrations , barriers and ice ages . |
| 19 | Then it seemed unkind to leave Daisy out , so she was invited too . |
| 20 | As Alice Walker has pointed out , Blackwomen must read history for clues not facts , and it seemed essential to leave clues as to a more holistic range of our artistic pursuits . |
| 21 | It seemed undesirable to use force against the Yugoslavs at the moment , but incidents could occur or be provoked , and clear instructions should be issued soon as to whether Alexander should order Eighth Army to close the Austrian frontier to the Yugoslavs and eject them from Carinthia , which would of course mean by force . |
| 22 | It seemed unthinkable to turn Miguelito down now , after that warm flush of pleasure just thinking about being with him , his strong body and arms , his soft mouth and deep beautiful voice . |
| 23 | With the family reaching working age it seemed sensible to take advantage of the expanding market for organic produce and increase the chances of supporting them all from the farm . |
| 24 | And by dusk were back in autumn ; it seemed sensible to make camp in this gentler landscape , but during the night an odd wind fetched up and snow fell , followed by an appallingly humid heat . |
| 25 | We had such happy family holidays in the drizzle waiting for the sun to try and come out that it seemed churlish to spoil things with science . |
| 26 | It swung open to reveal Maeve . |
| 27 | But Lewis is shattered it proved impossible to agree terms with new champion Riddick Bowe , who on January 2 will be stripped of the WBC version . |
| 28 | They would live on desert racetracks linking up shelters ; it proved impossible to get hold of enough desert from angry human inhabitants . |
| 29 | However , it proved difficult to persuade growers to accept the new seed — until problems in Ivory Coast and Jamaica , the main seed-producing nations , led to a drastic reduction in supplies from these states . |
| 30 | Experienced bar and kitchen staff were recruited fairly easily in Melcaster , but it proved difficult to find restaurant staff of the same calibre . |