Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] it became " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead it is thought Meiko will use the Fujitsu Ltd VP single-chip vector processor for floating point operations alongside the Texas Instruments Inc Viking SuperSparc for scalar operations , although Meiko has said that Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's HyperSparc will be considered once it became available ( UX No 385 ) , and that the i860 could work with the new architecture if required . |
| 2 | Once this conventional world had been established , it was easily recreated until it became traditional . |
| 3 | The excitement was intensified when it became known that some time previously a railway clerk named Winter , who kept a black retriever , had shot himself in the porter 's cellar but Durham had claimed that he was unaware of the tragedy when he had encountered the ghost . |
| 4 | A single-track road down to the rocks was closed when it became completely jammed with traffic and an enterprising farmer is now charging visitors £1 each to park in her field . |
| 5 | When the housing market collapsed , it appears that this property was affected because it became the subject of a forced sale . |
| 6 | The referendums had been called after it became clear during the campaign leading up to the June Maastricht referendum that the Irish Constitution 's restrictive abortion provisions could clash with EC rights to freedom of movement and information [ see p. 38942 ] . |
| 7 | Plans to introduce an interim budget were abandoned after it became clear that the budget deficit would be larger than anticipated . |
| 8 | The medieval Church had laid down categorical rules about the impropriety of Christians enslaving other Christians but these rules were waived when it became a matter of enslaving black Africans . |
| 9 | The burden increased when it became clear that it was schools who would be held principally responsible in implementing the national curriculum , in taking the first steps in teacher appraisal and in managing their finances . |
| 10 | The powers of the Federal government inevitably increased as it became the chief customer for the war materials poured out by industry . |
| 11 | The decision was reportedly taken after it became clear that the French Disneyland would not make its expected profit this year . |
| 12 | He had briefly been in the Army but had left when it became clear that he would not get commissioned . |
| 13 | This strategy was scrapped when it became apparent that the government needed to take some action before the students revved up again for another outbreak of violence . |
| 14 | In the first instance decision of Harvey [ 1988 ] Crim.L.R. 241 , a confession of murder made by a psychopathically disordered woman was , it is submitted , rightly excluded when it became apparent that she might have been motivated by a childlike desire to protect her lover , whom she had over-heard confessing to the same offence . |
| 15 | French public opinion was enraged by the attempt and was further inflamed when it became known that Orsini 's bombs had been made in Birmingham and the conspiracy hatched in London . |
| 16 | In the early 1970s the cynical and exploitative role of multinational companies appeared to be confirmed as it became clear that Shell and BP , the latter half-owned by the British government , were the principal source of oil supplies to the outlawed Smith regime of Rhodesia . |
| 17 | The collegial atmosphere of the symposium was strained as it became apparent the Japanese and Americans regard the Indian team as reckless , the Indians feel Japanese criticisms are groundless , and the Americans advocate a policy that would leave the site a partial ruin , while others urge comprehensive repairs and reconstruction . |
| 18 | The prosperity which all these minor towns reveal occasionally has a local explanation : Todi 's neighbour , Assisi , was greatly enhanced when it became the burial place of St Francis and a centre of pilgrimage . |
| 19 | Even the supposedly rigid ‘ external financing limits ’ imposed by the post-1979 Conservative government in Britain have proved to be flexible in practice ( Heald and Steel 1981 ) , with targets being adjusted when it became apparent that they would not be met . |
| 20 | Enthusiasm for an approach to the Comintern had largely evaporated as it became clear that the Communists were intent on superseding the ILP . |
| 21 | Failure of Antarctic sanctuary plan A French proposal for the establishment of an Antarctic whale sanctuary was withdrawn when it became clear that it would not win the requisite 75 per cent level of support of IWC members . |
| 22 | The USSR had limited military-strategic objectives in Finland ; the country was never occupied by Soviet troops , except in the case of the lease of the Porkkala base , and this was returned once it became strategically redundant . |
| 23 | He had claimed his case would be prejudiced if it became known he was refusing to answer questions about Maxwell companies . |
| 24 | In the case of Gothic architecture , the pointed arch was evolved because it became the key to constructing buildings which were then desirable . |
| 25 | The Design centre finally failed because it became too elitist and alienated the general public . |