Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [that] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it became apparent that learners were not mastering grammatical structures by this method , pattern practice was introduced , and with the advent of language learning laboratories , the student spent much of his time listening to and mechanically repeating drills . |
| 2 | As the scale of local government grew and the environment began to change more rapidly , it became apparent that services needed to be more closely integrated in order that they would meet the needs of the environment . |
| 3 | When Vietnam got nasty , many bands were finally forced out of their apathy as it became apparent that things like conscription were bringing matters pretty close to home . |
| 4 | When Vietnam got nasty , many bands were finally forced out of their apathy as it became apparent that things like conscription were bringing matters pretty close to home . |
| 5 | The number of insertions of Shepard ventilation tubes was recorded for each child , and it became apparent that ears treated with tubes alone required significantly more tubes ( mean 2.48 , SD 1.39 ) than those receiving tubes in combination with adenoidectomy ( 1.52 , 0.85 ; p=0.0001 ) . |
| 6 | In fact , it became apparent that opportunities to implement this suggestion were extremely limited . |
| 7 | Clearly that justification collapsed once it became clear that shareholders in large public companies no longer exercised any real control or responsibility over their property . |
| 8 | When it became clear that conservatives were dominating the Congress , many members of the Democratic Platform resolved to leave the CPSU and form their own party called ( in November 1990 ) the Republican Party of the Russian Federation . |
| 9 | It became clear that prostaglandins have a prominent role in tissue inflammation , as well as in such diverse functions as blood clotting and contraction of the uterus . |
| 10 | In most subsequent cases , it became clear that considerations of comity would not prevail against the usual procedures of the Federal Rules so long as deponents or documents were to be produced within the United States , from whatever source . |
| 11 | The BR watchdog body , the Central Transport Consultative Committee , said last night it was evident the crash was caused by human error , although it became clear that arrangements for supervising and auditing the quality of work were ‘ lamentably defective ’ . |
| 12 | The variable ( a ) ( see above ) illustrates this point ; the speech of a number of persons was transcribed in some phonetic detail before it became clear that tokens of the vowel in a certain range of environments were never front-raised , and seemed moreover to be implicationally ordered with respect to their tolerance of back-raising ( see J. Milroy 1981a for details ) . |
| 13 | With the successful launch of Illustrator and its rapid acceptance by the professional market it became obvious that programs of this type were marketable and Aldus took on FreeHand . |
| 14 | The Swiss arrogantly ignored the advent of new electronic watch technology until it became obvious that markets for their mechanical products , believed to be the best in the world , had all but disappeared . |
| 15 | It made clear that elections to a constitution-drafting constituent assembly should be held in mid-1993 or by the end of the year at the latest , and that it would not tolerate any party which lost this election " paralysing " the elected government . |
| 16 | When it seemed likely that cars would be prohibited , they decided to return to the Lakes . |