Example sentences of "it become [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEC quit looking for an Alpha RISC second source when it became apparent foundries were n't willing to make the kind of investment needed without knowing whether the thing was really going to take off , says Electronic News . |
| 2 | When the pound slipped through the fingers of the ERM last September and plunged in value against important trading currencies , it became Golden Wednesday instead . |
| 3 | A further area for the media group to check is the loss of circulation due to strikes or other problems : during the continuing difficulties that beset Fleet Street in the early eighties it became standard practice for papers affected to provide a rebate for lost circulation . |
| 4 | Others followed suit until it became standard practice in the group . |
| 5 | Gradually , all was revealed that is , people , including the authorities and the KGB , realized that the Odd-Bod Greek who had spent all those years collecting the ‘ rubbish ’ that no-one needed had in fact made a collection that was now worth a great deal of money , and it reached a point when it became awkward living in Moscow with the collection . |
| 6 | The hull was unrecognisable as such ; half out of water it became unidentifiable debris . |
| 7 | It 's a well set out machine and using it became second nature after just a couple of hours . |
| 8 | It became second nature . ’ |
| 9 | But having had some estimates for that , it became inappropriate to , it became more cost effective to replace the entire pipe with a wider diameter pipe . |
| 10 | Then it became ten performances , same fee . |
| 11 | Yes , but , but the national land conference approved the outline agrarian law erm and then it be it became formal policy in October so it is after , but , but it was the land conference which actually ratified it . |
| 12 | Anyway , it became Big Willies Are Rarely Found . |
| 13 | From then on it became big game and for fifty years the only ones to leave China were dead . |
| 14 | When it became open house , more people were touched and inspired . |
| 15 | Staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital at first tried to induce labour on January 31 but when it became clear Mrs Busuttil , now of West Drayton , London , was not in labour they discontinued their efforts . |
| 16 | It had been reported that Smith was to send a written offer to Celtic for Aitken , and although Smith would not specify the amount it became common knowledge that it was for around £300,000 . |
| 17 | But his own reasoning was different : there were questions he wanted to ask and things he wanted to consider before it became common knowledge that MacQuillan had received a threat typed on a newsroom machine . |
| 18 | News of his work with the handicapped also leaked out at the centre and it became common knowledge that he was using the OBEX swimming-pool . |
| 19 | As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals . |
| 20 | The articles of agreement stipulated that gold was the official numeraire in terms of which each currency 's exchange value was to be pegged , but it became common practice for countries to adopt a par value for their currencies expressed in terms of the dollar . |
| 21 | We got out over and we had n't got twenty yards when the flares went up and it became undiluted hell |
| 22 | It became double pneumonia . |
| 23 | It became 50 times more sensitive . |
| 24 | Upon closure of the branch line in 1957 , the B.E.M.U. went home to Derby where it became departmental test unit ‘ Gemini ’ , before eventually being acquired by the West Yorkshire Transport Museum . |
| 25 | In fact it becomes two articles — one for punchcard machines still called ‘ Simply Silver ’ and one for electronics featured separately as ‘ Silver Scene ’ . |
| 26 | The joint between your quartered oak disappear and it becomes one block . |
| 27 | But but small movement a little bit of movement around and some people did as we 'll see when we look at the video this afternoon , but some people you know grew roots er it becomes that way . |
| 28 | And if we divide that by one , nought , nought , and then we do the equals , it becomes nine point six . |
| 29 | Practice breathing in this way for twenty minutes each day until it becomes second nature . |
| 30 | However , the enforcement agent in a compliance system regards prosecution as a sign of failure , where in a sanctioning system it becomes visible evidence that he has done his job . |