Example sentences of "[noun] it [adv] become " in BNC.
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| 1 | During January it also became clear that both Buchanan and , more especially , David Duke — the third Republican candidate and a former Ku Klux Klan leader — faced increasing difficulties in getting their names entered on to the Republican ballot papers in many states . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In November it also became the birthplace of Rolling Stone magazine . |
| 5 | IN the Great North Forest the other day it quickly became clear that there was a pretty significant absence . |
| 6 | The winner 's conker was then a oner , when it had disposed of two it became a twoer , but if it should then beat a threeer it then became a fiver . |
| 7 | Apart from these difficulties it soon became only too obvious that the drugs could be unexpectedly toxic . |
| 8 | If your team wins by 30 points every week it soon becomes boring ! |
| 9 | In terms of policy it thus became essential to try to weaken the English grip upon both the sea and the main rivers , such as the Oise , which flowed into the Seine , by seeking to detach the Burgundians from their English links . |
| 10 | ( I was determined to combat in advance any risk of being taken over by G(R) , the Middle East equivalent of S.O.E. , which was already showing signs of being the monstrous and inefficient octopus it later became ; or coming under the control of the Director of Combined Operations . ) |
| 11 | After Spurgeon 's Metropolitan Tabernacle was erected in 1860 at the Elephant and Castle it quickly became one of the sights of London . |
| 12 | When we met in the lounge it rapidly became clear that he was not in his usual good humour . |
| 13 | ‘ Most textile plants are built near a big sewerage plant , not in the middle of the countryside like ours , ’ explained Dai Jones , whose responsibility it soon became to find a means of solving the problem . |
| 14 | In talking of groups it soon became abundantly clear that the young lady to whom the remarks were addressed was mystified . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | If for some reason it subsequently becomes obvious that you ca n't do what you said you 'd do , then the genuine thing to do is to contact the person before the deadline expires , admit your difficulty and negotiate a new deadline . |
| 17 | As the depression began to affect West Coast loadings it soon became clear that it was no longer possible to sustain the level of service provided in the 1974 Glasgow electric timetable . |
| 18 | Finally , one will break through the " wall " of the ovum and enter it ; the wall will then seal behind it and in some way it now becomes impregnable to the assaults of further sperm . |
| 19 | But suppose we now attempt to extend the hierarchy and add a fourth element D under B. It immediately becomes clear that the apparent branching hierarchical structure is illusory , since not only B , but also C , stand in the relation ’ — larger than — ’ to D : |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Refitted as a cinema in the early years of this century it subsequently became a bingo hall and finally a flood-damaged carpet warehouse . |
| 22 | Away from that pulsing artery of East London it suddenly became quiet . |
| 23 | ‘ When you 've got targets and incentives it just becomes a family planning programme and not much more than that ’ Tricia Parker , Oxfam Bangladesh |
| 24 | In a problem-solving discussion it often becomes clear that the people present are all trying to solve slightly different problems . |
| 25 | Seto explained quite seriously that when one admired something in a friend 's house it customarily became his . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | Anyway Rick spent what seemed like an eternity before he got the fish near the net but when it showed for the first time it soon became apparent why it had been so stubborn , the fish was massive ! |
| 28 | BY THE time it actually became based in Reading in 1971 , the National Jazz , Blues & Rock Festival — as it would soon be known — had begun to epitomise all that was ominous about sitting on an ex-council rubbish tip amidst capricious weather and listening to the sound of the beat boom go bum . |
| 29 | At some stage it usually becomes necessary to move the dementing tenant to further care . |