Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [coord] it became " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ George Best ’ had confirmed the group 's status as a major outfit and it became inevitable they would soon move on from their Reception Records . |
| 2 | Wilson would talk at great length and it became clear to me that the number of people in whom he could confide safely was very small ; in fact it was clear that he had few , if any , complete political friends . |
| 3 | The accident caused considerable consternation and it became clear , talking to the members present at the launch point , that many pilots did not really understand all the factors which caused the accident . |
| 4 | He gave the ferret a strange and beautiful name and it became his god . |
| 5 | and er as often as not they were ladies who had been separated or divorced and er they had all , a lot of sort of marital problems and it became almost a , a we welfare of job |
| 6 | During the 1960s most of the Western world enjoyed steady economic growth and it became increasingly evident that companies ' main accounting apparatus ( financial reports in the form of income statements and balance sheets and annual budgets ) provided an inadequate basis for thinking ahead . |
| 7 | Major financiers and industrialists , notably those in St Petersburg , were made acutely conscious of their dependence on ministerial goodwill and it became increasingly common for senior officials to take up directorships on the boards of leading companies . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals . |
| 10 | These results were backed by solid gains at local elections and it became clear that the Nationalists had made substantial inroads into the Labour vote , at any rate between general elections . |
| 11 | Loans were handled as the National Debt rather than the royal debt and it became possible to raise long-term loans with the authority of Parliament behind them , and even to float loans on terms which meant that the principal would never be repaid but that , because the interest would be paid regularly forever , it would be possible to treat the bond for the debt as an asset which could be bought and sold . |