Example sentences of "become [adj] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became clear that nothing had been gained by removing the prince , especially as another ruler had now to be found . |
| 2 | The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits . |
| 3 | But those areas were taken out of the project when it became clear that they merited their own separate treatment . |
| 4 | After we reduced the parts to three , it became clear that we had to remove the work from the centre and reduce it to two elements , which would hold the volumes of the north and the south galleries and make a linkage across the Octagon activating the entire space . |
| 5 | It became clear that we needed more time and more study before we could support both Conrad 's ( 1979 ) and Meadow 's ( 1980 ) conclusions that deaf children need the early support of speech-based signing . |
| 6 | Once mother-infant interactions came to be studied in detail it became clear that we needed to reshape radically our ideas about socialization-about how children are integrated into a social world . |
| 7 | It had a small receptive field that was somewhat elongated vertically , and on examination with elongated stimuli it became clear that it responded well to a vertical bar but not at all to a horizontal bar . |
| 8 | Finally , foreign museums started contacting the Ministry of Culture and asking if they could buy , let us say , a picture by Malévich or Popova , and then it became clear that I had the pictures . |
| 9 | Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife . |
| 10 | Quickly it became clear that he had mistaken quiet and comfort for contentment . |
| 11 | When it became clear that he had nothing to tell me , I made my exit in the face of dismissive politeness . |
| 12 | But after a while , the roads on his map began to criss-cross each other in a crazy fashion and it became clear that he had forgotten the geography of his land . |
| 13 | It soon became clear that he had enjoyed having a free hand with Frank . |
| 14 | The National Party leader , Charles Blunt , also resigned in the aftermath of the election defeat , announcing his decision on April 6 when it became clear that he had lost his seat in the federal parliament . |
| 15 | But he was to find no lasting romance again and , as the years went by , it became clear that he had not lost his love for Gabrielle . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At the launch of Smith 's campaign , it soon became clear that he intends to encourage rather than to lead the debate about the party 's future . |
| 18 | As we watched the train 's shadows turn and fold on the snowy shore , it became clear that she had not forgotten the stories which made this much more than a stark inland sea stretching as far as the eye can follow . |
| 19 | Other speakers followed , but it soon became clear that she had spoken for ail present . |
| 20 | Once she had recovered full consciousness it became clear that she had entirely lost the power of speech . |
| 21 | The public are becoming aware that they do n't need an Oxford solicitor to help them buy a home in Oxford . |
| 22 | Although Anne Boleyn gave birth to Princess Elizabeth at Greenwich , in September 1533 , there was no son forthcoming and Henry VIII became convinced that she had another lover , so he had her beheaded on 19th . |
| 23 | She became convinced that she had read the letters of the Chevalier de Boufflers to the Comtesse de Sabran in another life , and that she might be a reincarnation . |
| 24 | She became convinced that he had found another woman and concentrated on trying to find out who she was . |
| 25 | He took such a long time to answer that she became convinced that he had n't . |
| 26 | It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others . |
| 27 | The attitudinal function has been given so much importance in past work on intonation that it will be discussed separately in this chapter , though it should eventually become clear that it overlaps considerably with the discourse function . |
| 28 | It could now become evident that she had a good figure . |
| 29 | They will become aware that they live in a world that is changing all the time , and that older people in their lifetimes have often lived through some major changes . |
| 30 | Through the haze of Bell 's which had been the weekend , it had become clear that he had little alternative . |