Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] it became [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Commissioner for Agriculture it became clear to him that the task ahead was not going to be easy .
2 Before phylloxera , it had not been necessary to prune and train , although vine training systems were widely practised — after phylloxera it became essential .
3 The hull was unrecognisable as such ; half out of water it became unidentifiable debris .
4 In the course of argument it became apparent that there was a potential issue as to the precise causal nexus between the acts and omissions alleged in the statement of claim and the physical consequences of those acts and omissions .
5 From these sorts of consideration it became clear that light is made up of lots of particles .
6 But in meeting with Kosygin it became clear to Razak that the Soviet Union would prefer its own larger collective security agreement , which would embrace Japan , Pakistan and India as well as the smaller states .
7 With time it became clear that the new region was too distant from Tornsk to be controlled with ease .
8 In fact it became clear that a considerable part of the defence was going to be that of justification , that the laws and usages of war permitted reprisals to be taken against hostages .
9 Once mother-infant interactions came to be studied in detail it became clear that we needed to reshape radically our ideas about socialization-about how children are integrated into a social world .
10 In time it became customary to grant more than one reversion to an office , so that a queue of expectant administrators could be seen waiting to step successively into a dead man 's shoes .
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