Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The venturi-tube type of total energy system can be dried out by venting it to cockpit static to allow the venturi to suck out the water in flight . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After only two visits , however , the novelty wore off , and it was patently obvious that Jeopardy and his partner were oblivious of his presence ; it became easy to ignore theirs . |
| 4 | It became tolerable did n't it ? |
| 5 | Accordingly it became normal to try to survey erosion terraces and their associated features in the field and this type of investigation illustrates well the desirability of fitting the punishment to the crime , or more prosaically reaching a compromise between accuracy and amount of data . |
| 6 | All too soon it became politic to think about returning Tony 's toy to its rightful owner . |
| 7 | She shivered again and then again until somehow it became impossible to stop and her whole body became racked with the uncontrollable involuntary movements . |
| 8 | The paper 's first deadline had been 15 May 1968 , but it became impossible to hit it , and there was , as the May Events washed around the staff , another problem . |
| 9 | The storm clouds gathered , the rain poured down and as the skies darkened , it became impossible to see the ball . |
| 10 | But because his personality was objectionable one held him responsible for his ugliness — it became impossible to overlook it . |
| 11 | I perfected the technique of entering my bedsit without anyone hearing me or noticing me , but eventually it became impossible to stay there ad infinitum without paying my rent , so I took all my military kit and some clothes and set myself up in the changing room at the barracks . |
| 12 | The company had to halt as it became impossible to make any progress through the press of bodies . |
| 13 | The full sized engine would then have been worked on until it became feasible to exploit steam engines commercially . |
| 14 | Once the tasks which are particularly sensitive to the effects of even one night 's loss of sleep had been identified , it became feasible to attempt to establish how little sleep is enough to prevent any of the effects of sleep loss . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It became essential to obtain an accurate estimate of just how many tigers were left . |
| 17 | Michael Green writes , ‘ Once Christianity took root in Hellenistic soil , it became necessary to do a tremendous work of translation . |
| 18 | When it became apparent to the teacher that Sherman was intent on proceeding to the gorilla area , it became necessary to say ‘ No . ’ |
| 19 | As the measures of repression by the government grew , it became necessary to use the army to quell strikes and disturbances . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Eventually it became necessary to create a further simple , numeric identifier for use in accessing information relating to specific posts . |
| 22 | NO SOONER had the new organisation ‘ After Dark Railtours ’ sent off their advertisement for publication than it became necessary to cancel the operation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So it became necessary to provide therapy for those unable to achieve the same kind of performance . |
| 25 | However , with the political parties vying in their promises to build more new houses — in 1951 Harold Macmillan , then Minister of Housing , promised to build 300,000 in one year — it became necessary to begin to clear the old slum housing built in the Victorian era . |
| 26 | It became necessary to review not only police training and equipment but also the law . |
| 27 | It became necessary to look for other employment . |
| 28 | As already indicated , the Brush Electrical Engineering Co. was the contractor for the construction of this line and with regard to the haste with which it had to be built , Brush Budget , their house magazine , had the following to say , ‘ For legal reasons it became necessary to build the line very quickly and the Brush Company laid ten miles of track in six weeks . |
| 29 | Frequently , they expressed a sympathy for guerrilla activities and direct action , without recognizing that successful guerrilla movements were either controlled by an organized and disciplined party ( as in China ) or turned themselves into a traditional type of party ( as in Cuba ) when it became necessary to consolidate their rule and implement their policies . |
| 30 | It became necessary to develop a number of change-management organizations to cope with the various matrices and to move the company toward some of the major changes that were essential to the total transformation . |