Example sentences of "[coord] it [adv] became [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Sixties and Seventies the systems gradually improved , the computer parts got more powerful and cheaper and it even became possible to get some sort of an idea as to what the page might look like . |
| 2 | The demand for flour continued to rise and it soon became apparent that considerable savings in both costs and labour could be effected if the repeated handling and transportation could be reduced . |
| 3 | And it soon became apparent that very little of what we did in the department would pass any objective assessment of a clearly understood and resourced process to satisfy agreed customer requirements . |
| 4 | The furnaces were far from economical in their use of charcoal and it soon became necessary to replace the heavy drain on established woodlands with the careful use of coppiced underwood . |
| 5 | Also , in the meantime , a military revolt had taken place in the Spanish army , lead by General Franco , and it soon became clear the division of the contending sides were , on the one side , The Nationalists who were strongly supported by Italy , Germany and Portugal , and on The other side , the government forces , supported by Communist Russia , which led to that side being referred to as ‘ Republicans ’ . |
| 6 | It was published on 22 July , and it soon became clear that the schools were not interested . |
| 7 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |
| 8 | However , the directors insisted that the cashier 's records should be examined and it soon became clear that there were discrepancies in the accounts . |
| 9 | Soon after 1600 on Sunday 6 October 1990 a dramatic change in weather conditions led to hurricane-force northerly winds along the east coast of Scotland , and it soon became clear to Coastguards that a number of divers had been caught at sea . |
| 10 | The three men met , and it soon became clear that their intentions were different . |
| 11 | He 's slightly happier about ‘ Fontana ’ , the second album and the one that yielded a hit in the shape of Shine On , but personnel problems were beginning to mar the band 's outlook and it soon became common knowledge that there was wet rot in The House Of Love . |
| 12 | Our boys made intense efforts to back them up with air support , but were much hampered by consistently bad weather , and it soon became obvious that long supply lines and determined German resistance were combining to bog everyone down . |
| 13 | This paranoid fear of a Catholic insurrection was heightened in 1641 by the news that the Catholic Irish of Ulster had risen up in armed rebellion against the Protestant settlers of that province , and it subsequently became one of the most powerful influences motivating those who took up arms against Charles I in the civil war . |
| 14 | No more was said of the job and it rapidly became impossible to tell who was trying to please whom over the matter of the Venetian lantern . |
| 15 | This announcement met with considerable antipathy from Fine Art Investment and Display , and it rapidly became clear that the company would be unlikely to sell to the Barclay brothers . |
| 16 | Predictably , he tapped his nose again , but it immediately became plain that she had underestimated the man . |
| 17 | The campanile was saved but it soon became ruinous . |
| 18 | A mechanical bush-clearing company was called in , but it soon became apparent that machines could not accomplish all that was required , and labourers from other tribes were set to work . |
| 19 | But it soon became apparent in Zambia and other new countries that inexperienced and possibly unstable governments feared the ability of the press to provide conflicting or alternative ‘ truths ’ , for this put enormous power into the hands of the press proprietors . |
| 20 | But it soon became apparent that other people were also affected including injecting drug users , people with haemophilia , people who had received blood transfusions as well as heterosexuals who came into none of these categories . |
| 21 | But it soon became apparent that Britain still preferred little more than an effective interlocking system of treaties along the lines of the Treaty of Dunkirk : increasingly , if these were initiated , they would be little more than holding operations until the United States shared in the defence of Western Europe . |
| 22 | But it soon became apparent that the divisions between the French and English ran very deep . |
| 23 | The full extent of the tragedy was impossible to asses at first , but it soon became apparent that the number who were killed instantly was in excess of 70 . |
| 24 | But it soon became apparent to the pioneering voluntary organizations that established them , such as the Richmond Fellowship , that patients who had been mentally unwell for years did not miraculously become capable of independent living in a short space of time ; they often needed permanent help and support and coped particularly poorly with changes in their environment and lifestyle . |
| 25 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |
| 26 | But it soon became obvious that the proteins of the nutrient contained the correct chemical groups , and that the food molecules themselves were polymerizing and creating the capsule membrane . |
| 27 | Allan Lamb took over the captaincy and did his best , but it soon became clear that without Gooch they were nothing like the same team . |
| 28 | The main item on the agenda was future policy in Ulster but it soon became clear that another issue had become dominant . |
| 29 | In one demonstration my car was stopped at a hospital entrance but it soon became clear that much of the resentment was directed at what were seen as remote hospital authorities ‘ up there , . |
| 30 | Gradually she got used to thinking of Angel as Corrie , but it soon became clear that she would never be able to claim her as her own . |