Example sentences of "it become [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the rise of the PLO made the whole issue more dangerous and complex , partly because it became unclear whether the majority of people in the West Bank wanted either Jordan or the PLO back , and partly because Jordan 's East Bank population was 40 per cent Palestinian . |
| 2 | Mr Wilson added that he was still pursuing the wider issues of the case until it became apparent whether the case of Ian X was unique . |
| 3 | The information available through the payroll was : name man number payroll number ( hourly , weekly , monthly ) depot number birth date date of joining salary company division department marital status date left At a later date indicators were added for : membership of pension scheme savings scheme part-timers address job title It became apparent immediately that quite a lot could be done with a good program . |
| 4 | This would at best have been a major irritant for an embattled leader of the opposition But it became worse than that . |
| 5 | The minimum fell somewhere between maternal ages 20 and 35 years and , from the minimum , the proportion of still births increased again towards older maternal age where , in most samples , it became higher than at the younger end of the maternal age scale . |
| 6 | It became redundant after the Public Record Office was completed in 1858 , to Pennethorne 's designs , as a central repository for all government archives . |
| 7 | It became visible when Jack flew directly above it , and then only hills could be seen . |
| 8 | Its essence stayed the same but now there was something new in its texture , and it became clearer as it approached . |
| 9 | I mean it was cursory , it became cursory when I saw the bloody pile of stuff that I 'd got to read , and I thought , ‘ Well I 'll you know we 'll skip that and I 'll just say what a wonderful lot you are for doing so much . ’ |
| 10 | It became more than a family home but a working farm and , they hoped , an inspirational headquarters for their international design empire . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If the atmosphere at Sandringham was uncomfortable , at Park House it became unbearable as Diana 's little world fell apart at the seams . |
| 13 | The strap is a strong rubber one but I found I had to overtighten it at the surface , otherwise it became loose when my drysuit seal compressed at depth . |
| 14 | [ It became inapplicable when , after a change of government in 1979 , the Cowan recommendations were abandoned.l |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | It became obvious as the system model was expanded to activity and then information level that the volume of data produced was becoming impossible to handle and comprehend using manual methods only . |
| 17 | It became obvious as soon as Annunziata handed round the soup tureen that Comfort was deliberately trying to exclude David from the conversation and show him how de trop he was . |
| 18 | If a gratuitous unconditional promise is revocable should it become irrevocable because a condition is added ? |
| 19 | As the difficulties in holding to it become clear so we examine the exact opposite — its antithesis . |
| 20 | What he has to come out with is not initially clear , but it becomes clearer when a taste of gay night-life turns him off , and he trails back to his dull wife . |
| 21 | It has also been argued that the small mouths of the giants simply could not have downed enough food to support a warm-blooded metabolism , particularly plant food that needs a lot of processing before it becomes available as energy . |
| 22 | It becomes compulsory when sailing off exposed beaches in rough conditions , since it means you can escape the hazardous shorebreak quickly . |
| 23 | Best bought in by the load , it becomes expensive when stacked , composted , mixed with a little poultry , bagged up and given a fancy proprietary name . |
| 24 | If you try to think of it as a closed totality you get into the problems of historicism ; if you try to think of it as entirely differentiated , then it becomes meaningless since there is no necessary connection , positive or negative , to anything else , nor would any one history produce any effect on another . |
| 25 | It becomes unhealthy if you overload the amount of product ; use the wrong fryer for the job ; or if you do n't allow for the recovery period of the oil temperature . ’ |
| 26 | The claimant must first refer his dispute to the engineer ; if not settled , the dispute may then go to ADR , and , if it does go to ADR , and the conciliator makes a determination , it becomes binding unless one of the parties serves notice of arbitration within one month . |
| 27 | When you sell 10 Kiefers , it becomes questionable whether you are refining or decimating your collection . |
| 28 | Yet if the example is modified a little , so that the overtaking is on a country road at night and the risk is known to be slight , it becomes questionable whether the causing of death in these circumstances should be labelled in the same way as intentional killings . |
| 29 | With a twenty-one majority it becomes important cos all it needs is eleven by-elections . |
| 30 | It becomes interesting when it seems that Jane might hit Tom , or when one of them stops for a moment and thinks . |