Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] it become " in BNC.
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| 1 | For present purposes it is sufficient to note that the expression embraces the period of two years prior to the onset of insolvency in the case of transactions at an undervalue and of preferences given to a person connected with the company , provided that at the time of the transaction the company was unable to pay its debts or it became unable to pay its debts by reason of the transaction . |
| 2 | When , for example , a previously repressed anger comes back into consciousness and it becomes safer for a person to acknowledge his hostility , desire is also freed . |
| 3 | The largest was at Gretna on the Solway Firth and it became no less than a State-developed new town , south-west of the existing village . |
| 4 | Her shoulders sagged in defeat and it became clear to the watching man that she accepted their veracity . |
| 5 | The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits . |
| 6 | During the Second World War Petwood was requisitioned by the R.A.F. and it became the Officer 's Mess for 617 Squadron , better known as ‘ The Dambusters ’ , after their bombings of the Mohne and Eder dams . |
| 7 | If you 've actually got a standard for the key tasks , you can actually measure the what we call the performance gap and it becomes much more logical . |
| 8 | Add diced shallots to the vinaigrette and it becomes a sauce for a jellied boeuf à la mode or an oxtail terrine . |
| 9 | This would at best have been a major irritant for an embattled leader of the opposition But it became worse than that . |
| 10 | Its lights sparkled in the shadow of Earth but even as Jezrael watched its approach , Steel City was wheeling its impressive silver network into the full light of the sun and it became a diamond filigree that flashed like a new-born star . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is a delicate balance between making such a project a self-evaluation exercise and it becoming an evaluation by another teacher . |
| 13 | Thus , all ‘ go ’ periods tended to be followed by ‘ stop ’ periods and it became difficult to achieve long-term economic growth . |
| 14 | It was sold as the fulfilment of a dream but it became a nightmare for many . |
| 15 | You have up here you 've got neither win lose but it 's like it 's a respectable thing you know you respect each other you do n't trust them completely and you do n't co-operate completely but they just respect just not you 're just not willing to go that further little bit and it becomes more of a more of a rather than a win lose or a win win it 's more of a people half and half okay I 'll give this much if you give that much . |
| 16 | As land gradually ceased to be the major source of middle class wealth , and as salaries became more important , so marriage ceased to be an essentially dynastic settlement between two kin groups and it became possible to grant women more freedom , both emotional ( to marry whom they wished ) and legal , within marriage . |
| 17 | Although the party had secured only 8,360,000 votes compared with the 8,664,000 who voted Conservative , it had won most seats in parliament and it became inevitable that it should form a second minority government , once again relying upon Liberal Party support to keep it in office . |
| 18 | ‘ I say them two or three times and it became more obvious each time I say them that they had a real understanding of what it was they were trying to do musically . |
| 19 | The most I have played at one time is probably seven hours and it becomes agonising , it tightens your arm up terribly . ’ |
| 20 | And if I should change my mind and find the abbey not to my liking , or if Joan returns and it becomes expedient to resume our true identities , then so be it . |
| 21 | The accident caused considerable consternation and it became clear , talking to the members present at the launch point , that many pilots did not really understand all the factors which caused the accident . |
| 22 | Take a step back , view it from the angles and it becomes a sort of absurdist roman fleuve , a Dada- Climbers with which anyone with a tape-recorder and a gift for transcription would run away with the Boardman Tasker prize . |
| 23 | However Much rural housing became a public issue , which it did periodically until 1914 , the depression in agriculture generally ensured that little new building took place and it became more and more apparent that housing conditions in rural areas would receive no dramatic improvement without external intervention . |
| 24 | Baker and Butlin ( 1973 , p. 619 ) concluded from their major edited survey of those field systems that ‘ As the number of local studies has increased , so to some extent has the difficulty of attempting generalizations and it becomes increasingly clear that no single interpretation will exactly fit all the known facts ’ . |
| 25 | It was what we know as recitative and it became the staple of opera in musica . |
| 26 | It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others . |
| 27 | She worked strenuously to establish the Corby branch and provided courses there in an attempt to sustain a WEA presence in the then new steel town but it became inactive in the early thirties . |
| 28 | That might seem like the wackiest of wacky ideas but it becomes ever more fascinating as it is explored in a barrage of speculation , invective and anecdotes , all designed to prove that money , in a practical rather than puritanical sense , is the root of all evil . |
| 29 | He gave the ferret a strange and beautiful name and it became his god . |
| 30 | Once vice-chancellors start to think the unthinkable , then the issue becomes part of the agenda and it becomes harder to retreat . |