Example sentences of "it [adv] becomes [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It thereby becomes inviolate until an equally vast majority decides otherwise . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It only becomes that towards the end . |
| 5 | It only becomes conspicuous after an attack has started , and never provokes that attack . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Then I suppose it just becomes that transparenty , whitey stuff . |
| 8 | For openers , the Lips proffer an ominously ragged blast through John Lennon 's ‘ Mind Games ’ , and it soon becomes apparent they have some Road-To-Damascus compatible lighting effects . |
| 9 | By adding the pluses and minuses , it soon becomes apparent which of the remaining six places we ought to go to visit for a final decision . |
| 10 | Less controversially , it soon becomes apparent to personnel involved in course and presenter evaluation that student respondents rarely assign very poor ratings , or make extremely negative comments , even when other indicators such as colleague judgement suggest that a course has been presented particularly poorly . |
| 11 | Since they extract heat from the food inside , and since the compressor and fans generate heat , it soon becomes apparent that the area around a poorly ventilated refrigerator can quickly become hot . |
| 12 | It soon becomes respectable . |
| 13 | If your team wins by 30 points every week it soon becomes boring ! |
| 14 | The truth is flexible , white hot , but it soon becomes brittle if tempered with cold bullshit . |
| 15 | It soon becomes necessary to shift to the fourth stage of the process , referred to as seeking sponsorship . |
| 16 | Scrolling through the A2 's patches it soon becomes obvious that it 's crammed full of great sounds , although , as usual , some do need severely sorting out for ouput level , which means that there 's no escaping learning how to program the thing ! |
| 17 | In attempting to discern what distinguishes the notions of making and causing , it soon becomes obvious that there are many objects which can be conceived as being made but not as being caused : this is true , for example , of cars , boats , bread , plastic , in short anything that is brought into being by a process of fabrication . |
| 18 | It soon becomes evident that these other and wider meanings cluster around a specific conception of the national culture . |
| 19 | There was , too , the how-dun-it , the book in which it soon becomes evident who the murderer is but in which he or she can not be brought to satisfying justice unless some ingenious , proof-defying method used is brought to light . |
| 20 | Allowing for running and folding time , proof correction , author 's corrections , design and scripting , it soon becomes clear that by early-May you must be sitting down to plan the details of those leaflets — no later . |
| 21 | Comfort can be taken from hoping that her daughter will grow up into ‘ a brilliant and glorious human being ’ , but it soon becomes clear that , beneath her cool , confident exterior , Camille too is damaged and vulnerable . |
| 22 | But once you 're up and running it soon becomes clear that networks let you do a whole host of other things . |
| 23 | When one begins to list the dozens of schema-based inferences which even such a brief passage as this evokes , it soon becomes clear that there is much more to comprehension than vocabulary and sentence structure — comprehension is crucially dependent upon schemata . |
| 24 | But it soon becomes clear that rhino is keen on other things . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | The campanile was the first in the city to have a clock that struck the hours ( although that of the church of Sant' Eustorgio was the first to have had a clock , in 1306 ) In its lower part the campanile is square , but it soon becomes octagonal , rising in elegant brickwork tiers separated by delicate friezes . |
| 27 | It thus becomes possible , through writing , to specialise language , to use it to serve a specific function rather than conflating different functions . |
| 28 | It thus becomes crucial to determine what errors fall outside jurisdiction . |
| 29 | The caveman 's body begins to sweat and it thus becomes wet and slippery . |
| 30 | It thus becomes clear that an intricate web of mutual dependency existed between the state and private individuals , between the military , the hunters , the peasants , the craftsmen and the merchants . |