Example sentences of "it [adv] becomes [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It soon becomes necessary to shift to the fourth stage of the process , referred to as seeking sponsorship . |
| 2 | ‘ All kinds of typographical fireworks are now made possible by computers and that has generated its own trend : if this or that trick can be done , then it soon becomes fashionable to go ahead and do it . |
| 3 | It thus becomes crucial to determine what errors fall outside jurisdiction . |
| 4 | It thus becomes difficult to talk in general terms about the scheme , although there are a number of features which appear reasonably consistently between different parts of the schedules . |
| 5 | It thus becomes difficult to identify a specifically black LE , although there seem to be certain features of accent which community members are able to use to identify unseen speakers as black . |
| 6 | At some stage it usually becomes necessary to move the dementing tenant to further care . |
| 7 | Once the individual begins to establish regularities , to generalise over experience , it becomes possible for him not only to recognise a particular experience as being one of a type , say a scolding or an interview , it also becomes possible to predict what is likely to happen , what are likely to be the relevant features of context , within a particular type of communicative event . |
| 8 | Under these altered conditions , emulation is increasingly significant as a strategy by means of which people lower in a given social hierarchy attempt to realize their aspirations towards higher status by modifying their behaviour , their dress and the kind of goods they purchase , since it now becomes possible to mistake a poor nobleman for a wealthy trader . |
| 9 | It now becomes necessary to determine why such a form of conditional learning should be evident in this procedure and not in others . |
| 10 | It thus becomes highly convenient to view the market , in a world of production , as if all entrepreneurial activity were in fact carried on by producers ; in other words , it now becomes convenient to think of resource owners and consumers as passive price-takers , exercising no entrepreneurial judgement of their own and simply reacting passively to the opportunities to sell and buy which the producer-entrepreneurs hold out to them directly . |
| 11 | In the face of this kind of thing , it surely becomes impossible to maintain that the workings of gender in English are untouched by sexism . |
| 12 | It then becomes impossible to rank societies as more or less aggressive than one another , just as it is impossible to say that one society is more or less evil than another . |
| 13 | It then becomes appropriate to wonder whether the analysis proposed by Rappaport in figure 5.5 for a single entity might not , in such situations , be expanded to encompass the partnership . |
| 14 | And once the people have disappeared , it then becomes possible to manipulate the ‘ population ’ in your mind as if it were any other variable in a mathematical equation . |
| 15 | And once the people have disappeared , it then becomes possible to manipulate the ‘ population ’ in your mind as if it were any other variable in a mathematical equation . |
| 16 | It then becomes possible to formulate generalizations on what might be described as the sociolinguistic typology of low-status versus relatively standardized , higher-status phonological systems . |
| 17 | As an extension of this point , it then becomes necessary to integrate knowledge of L1 acquisition with knowledge of F.L. learning . |
| 18 | Will he support the Federal Reserve if it again becomes necessary to douse the embers of inflation ? |
| 19 | However , a contract for the sale of unascertained goods can be frustrated at common law if it subsequently becomes impossible to perform because of an unexpected turn of events , as in Howell v. Coupland . |
| 20 | It therefore becomes necessary to outline what must be agreed upon between both sides if the argument is to be taken further . |
| 21 | It therefore becomes necessary to rig the market . |
| 22 | It therefore becomes imperative to ask : what are the existing mechanisms of democratic control over the police , and how effective are they ? |
| 23 | And it therefore becomes important to study the properties of single channels . |
| 24 | On the basis of calculations about what local and national inspectors could manage by way of inspections , Becher et al ( 1979 ) go further and conclude that , ‘ It therefore becomes hard to see inspection becoming a routine form of accountability without at least doubling the number of inspectors ’ . |