Example sentences of "[be] [verb] when it become " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Another typical resistance is met when it becomes clear that despite everything that is being achieved in terms of family understanding and awareness , individuals are sticking rigidly to old patterns of interaction and behaviour . |
| 4 | Old providers of employment are artificially kept alive until a point is reached when it becomes obvious that support must be switched off . |
| 5 | A cell 's true nature is realized when it becomes skin or bone or nerve ending . |
| 6 | Failure of Antarctic sanctuary plan A French proposal for the establishment of an Antarctic whale sanctuary was withdrawn when it became clear that it would not win the requisite 75 per cent level of support of IWC members . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |