Example sentences of "[conj] it soon [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence Jacobitism , the belief that James II and his heirs were the rightful rulers of Scotland ( and possibly England as well ) took far deeper root in Scotland than England , where it soon became the mere dream of a few impractical romantics . |
| 2 | The master 's conduct of his small class was so casual that it soon drifted away , but his influence on this pupil was decisive . |
| 3 | In the 1960's the date was changed to a Sunday to make it easier for people , but there was such an outcry that it soon reverted to the traditional Friday . |
| 4 | Also , in the meantime , a military revolt had taken place in the Spanish army , lead by General Franco , and it soon became clear the division of the contending sides were , on the one side , The Nationalists who were strongly supported by Italy , Germany and Portugal , and on The other side , the government forces , supported by Communist Russia , which led to that side being referred to as ‘ Republicans ’ . |
| 5 | The demand for flour continued to rise and it soon became apparent that considerable savings in both costs and labour could be effected if the repeated handling and transportation could be reduced . |
| 6 | It was published on 22 July , and it soon became clear that the schools were not interested . |
| 7 | Our boys made intense efforts to back them up with air support , but were much hampered by consistently bad weather , and it soon became obvious that long supply lines and determined German resistance were combining to bog everyone down . |
| 8 | He 's slightly happier about ‘ Fontana ’ , the second album and the one that yielded a hit in the shape of Shine On , but personnel problems were beginning to mar the band 's outlook and it soon became common knowledge that there was wet rot in The House Of Love . |
| 9 | The furnaces were far from economical in their use of charcoal and it soon became necessary to replace the heavy drain on established woodlands with the careful use of coppiced underwood . |
| 10 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |
| 11 | However , the directors insisted that the cashier 's records should be examined and it soon became clear that there were discrepancies in the accounts . |
| 12 | I had not gone far before the rain started and it soon became a sluicing downpour that never abated all day . |
| 13 | Soon after 1600 on Sunday 6 October 1990 a dramatic change in weather conditions led to hurricane-force northerly winds along the east coast of Scotland , and it soon became clear to Coastguards that a number of divers had been caught at sea . |
| 14 | The three men met , and it soon became clear that their intentions were different . |
| 15 | Blazer offered his workforce a piece of waste ground behind the mattress shed for a pitch and it soon became affectionately known as the ‘ Football Ground ’ . |
| 16 | And it soon became apparent that very little of what we did in the department would pass any objective assessment of a clearly understood and resourced process to satisfy agreed customer requirements . |
| 17 | In the 16th century , the turkey was imported into England by Yorkshireman William Strickland , and it soon usurped the swan as the favoured traditional dish of the nobility . |
| 18 | Further calculations supported this view , and it soon came to be adopted generally . |
| 19 | The mosaic work was introduced on the Portuguese mainland in the eighteenth century and it soon reached Madeira . |
| 20 | As Norman Cohn shows in his classic Europe 's Inner Demons , infanticide — slaughter of the incontrovertibly innocent — was always crucial to the psychodrama and it soon got pinned on the Jews . |
| 21 | And it soon emerged that the government had systematically arranged breaches of the Drinking Water Directive that would stretch into the next century . |
| 22 | There was a certain amount of gossip but it soon died down . ’ |
| 23 | But it soon vanished when I mentioned my wish to visit Manu National Park . |
| 24 | No one knows who first made the quip but it soon had universal currency . |
| 25 | It started with a list of city firms , but it soon realized there were other options . |
| 26 | But it soon seemed natural for one man to be held first among equals ; or the first prominent convert in a city , like Stephanas at Corinth ( 1 Cor. 16 : 15–16 ) , might form a community round his household . |
| 27 | But it soon came to be realized that any breakaway plasma would disperse into the void rather than condense into solid bodies . |
| 28 | SDS began modestly in 1959 as the revived youth section of the old League for Industrial Democracy , but it soon began to grow as part of a general renaissance of radical ideas and movements in the New Left , and more particularly through the participation of students in the civil rights movement . |
| 29 | But it soon became obvious that the proteins of the nutrient contained the correct chemical groups , and that the food molecules themselves were polymerizing and creating the capsule membrane . |
| 30 | Allan Lamb took over the captaincy and did his best , but it soon became clear that without Gooch they were nothing like the same team . |