Example sentences of "it [adv] become " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Frizzell digested this truth , and the import of it slowly became clear to her . |
| 2 | At some level of expenditure it presumably becomes inequitable for a disabled person to expect public support for the more expensive domiciliary care if this means depriving someone else of care of any sort . |
| 3 | It thereby becomes inviolate until an equally vast majority decides otherwise . |
| 4 | Sceptics argued that there was no real difference between a right and a duty ; once it was laid down when auditors would be expected to use their right to report , it effectively became a duty . |
| 5 | OK , so it eventually becomes an obsession , and someone has to kill to get the key , but it keeps the audience alert , particularly when there 's a late night knock at the door . |
| 6 | Whatever , it eventually became impossible to ensure compliance . |
| 7 | Millend stood idle for about eight years until it eventually became the home of The Mechanical Malting Company , later The Automatic Malting Co , who remained there until 1931 . |
| 8 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 9 | The population of the town doubled in the last forty years of the eighteenth century ( thirty-five thousand people in 1760 ; seventy-three thousand in 1801 ) , but it was as yet far from being the dark and horrible landscape that it eventually became . |
| 10 | Since then , it daily becomes clearer to more and more people that Green issues must now be taken seriously , especially in Planning and Environmental matters . |
| 11 | So , again I wrote , telling the would-be backpacker that having the survival bag was a bit like taking out insurance — it only became useful if he had an emergency . |
| 12 | It only became a moot point because David was a meal ticket for so many people . |
| 13 | It only became a god in Hellenistic times when it was worshipped under the name ‘ Aion ’ , but that signified a sacred , eternal time which was very different from ordinary time , chronos . |
| 14 | The minister , who had radically restructured French research and technology , actually handed in his resignation on 2 February after a clash with President Francois Mitterrand — but it only became public last week . |
| 15 | It only became connected with the miracle because both events took place in the same village . |
| 16 | It only became the grandest villa when Henry Pease bought it and began work . |
| 17 | It only becomes that towards the end . |
| 18 | While a certain amount of stress can be positive — it provides energy which enables us to do the things we want to do — it only becomes a problem if it develops into distress . |
| 19 | It only becomes a problem if the environment encourages it to grow excessively . |
| 20 | It only becomes conspicuous after an attack has started , and never provokes that attack . |
| 21 | It only becomes a mystery because we notice that there are too few facts to draw a conclusion . |
| 22 | But you see it only becomes my experience as I exercise the faith that God has given to me . |
| 23 | It swiftly became apparent that congress would not go along with such an increase , especially after the big Democratic gains in the 1974 elections . |
| 24 | Whilst in many cases firms with more than 20 partners will for reasons of publicity wish to set out their names on the firm 's documentation , there is no compulsion for them so to do ( and beyond a certain number it obviously becomes impracticable ) . |
| 25 | Everyone has their own ideas about how it should be done , but if everyone agrees to lift it together , it suddenly becomes a very easy task . |
| 26 | It suddenly became very important for me to explain why my war was not over . |
| 27 | It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant . |
| 28 | There was little mirth among the film crew , least of all from Raymond Cusick whose job it suddenly became to pull a last minute rabbit out of the hat . |
| 29 | Over two or three days it suddenly became malign enough to seem a reflection of Bella 's casual slaughter of their lives , and at last he rose in revolt . |
| 30 | It suddenly became rather urgent to find out how much Mrs Sweet knew . |