Example sentences of "and [subord] it became [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glynn 's fax duly arrived and when it became apparent that the wiring was beyond the skills of a cack-handed caveman they promptly offered to collect the guitar ( I only live in Aberdeen ! ) , modify it and return it within a few working days . |
| 2 | From there , if and when it became possible , he would be taken to the castle at Soragna where the Principessa Meli Lupi was prepared to take him on in the guise of a gardener — a refugee who had been rendered deaf and dumb in the bombing of Milan . |
| 3 | Unlike the Mitcham Order , the 1902 Bill did not pass through Parliament unscathed and when it became effective as an Act , on 31 July 1902 , many sections had been deleted , largely because of the very narrow roads named in Carshalton . |
| 4 | Council put the central heating in when we got advanced in years and when it became necessary in the doctor 's opinion for me to have central heating because I had a heart complaint . |
| 5 | He waited for him to answer and when it became obvious that he could n't the older man voiced what he hoped was true . |
| 6 | Each cell had its own stimulus requirements and when it became active this said something about the nature of the event or object in its own part of the visual field . |
| 7 | Hoping that the male was not equally precocious proved vain , and when it became evident that the eggs had hatched I moved the male from the 18″ tank they had been sharing , and allowed the female to brood in isolation . |
| 8 | And when it became clear that the Earl would have no sons , it became a marriage which aroused high expectations — expectations which were disappointed when the King took Cornwall for himself . |
| 9 | The association of water conservation measures with improved administrative control was apparent from the earliest days of Masai administration , and though it became fashionable in later years to talk about ‘ anchoring ’ the Masai for development purposes , administrative convenience was always a powerful interest : ‘ the Masai have , in my view , two outstanding needs ’ , wrote the Provincial Commissioner of the Northern Province of Tanganyika in 1950 — ‘ water and discipline ’ . |