Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Its essence stayed the same but now there was something new in its texture , and it became clearer as it approached . |
| 32 | The very corpses were thought to be contagious ; in some parishes attempts were made to prevent their burial in consecrated ground , and it became necessary for the parson to conduct the service under cover of darkness . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | The Town Development Act , 1952 , did not apply to Scotland and it became necessary to cope with Glasgow 's housing problem by means of a second New Town . |
| 35 | ‘ All three of us looked down the embankment and it became apparent there was a body there , ’ he said . |
| 36 | And it became apparent that the general reading public was not only prepared , but positively eager , to listen . |
| 37 | 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 ) . |
| 38 | As the election approached in the spring of 1761 , and it became certain that there would be a close contest in Perthshire , even a single vote could be of material importance , and Drummond was well aware of the strength of his own position . |
| 39 | On certain feast days , the gates of the inner sanctuary where the reliquary was kept-were opened , and it became visible , in its tabernacle behind the statue ; when they were shut , visitors had to peep through the bars : the grille was shiny where hands had gripped it on either side to get a glimpse . |
| 40 | Sharon formally submitted his resignation to the Cabinet on Feb. 18 , and it became effective two days later . |
| 41 | Although the party had secured only 8,360,000 votes compared with the 8,664,000 who voted Conservative , it had won most seats in parliament and it became inevitable that it should form a second minority government , once again relying upon Liberal Party support to keep it in office . |
| 42 | ‘ George Best ’ had confirmed the group 's status as a major outfit and it became inevitable they would soon move on from their Reception Records . |
| 43 | Her previous recording with Sir Charles Groves featured Crusell 's Second Concerto , in which she was partnered by the English Chamber Orchestra , and it became evident from our conversation that she had been especially happy to work with Sir Charles once again , in this new recording of English music for clarinet and orchestra . |
| 44 | This , in turn , brought into focus the problem of individuation , and it became evident that the success or failure of any ontological " principle of individuation " depended upon its ability to provide a satisfactory clarification of the distinction between numerical and species identity . |
| 45 | After a prolonged course of elemental diet an elimination diet was repeated and it became evident that he was profoundly sensitive to salicylate . |
| 46 | A phenomenon — Pacific chic — began to arrest the attentions of those on the dinner-party circuit , and it became desirable , nay essential , for the United States to think Pacific , be Pacific ( though with a capital ‘ P ’ ) and , above all , to develop a Pacific policy . |
| 47 | Because it is ground offensive in sand , you want to be able to see that if you 're being shot , we could n't we could n't do that , and it became questionable whether we were actually going to be able to see the ground or not , so we called it aboard . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | There was a lack of suitably qualified staff to implement the system and it became costly and time-consuming to implement . |
| 50 | After that many Republican law-makers felt compelled to go along with it — and it became harder for critics to attack the reforms as ‘ socialised medicine ’ . |
| 51 | DeFries began to build his MainMan empire in New York and it became obvious it was n't always in support of what David was doing . |
| 52 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 53 | It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others . |
| 54 | Er about this strike and er but time went on and it became obvious that er nobody were going to win only the boss like this boss , course he was he was scratching through , and so they called the strike off and every person who worked at er every firm had a meeting and they all decided to take so many and every firm took so many of the workers and so nobody was ever unemployed as a consequence of the strike which was very very good . |
| 55 | Yeah , I think we should minute erm our appreciation of the action taken by yourself and the clerk in resolving this matter , because we did approve work erm and it became obvious after work was commenced that there was additional work that needed to be got on with |
| 56 | The house had seemed less threatening in the cold light of day , and it became obvious that a pretty establishment had been rendered hideous by neglect . |
| 57 | The accident caused considerable consternation and it became clear , talking to the members present at the launch point , that many pilots did not really understand all the factors which caused the accident . |
| 58 | ‘ I read the letters between him and his brother and it became clear he could n't even buy petrol on the New Jersey turnpike without writing to the petrol company about being over-charged . |
| 59 | She had already found herself in isolation over progress to monetary union and the endorsement of a social charter of workers ' rights , and it became clear that the new European Community order would be built on an even closer alliance of France and West Germany . |
| 60 | The radiocarbon discrepancy was confirmed and it became clear that radiocarbon results would need to be calibrated to convert them to calendar ages . |