Sentence examples for but it became virtually from inspiring English sources

He served in the Irish constitutional convention (July 1917), but it became virtually deadlocked by early 1918.

The practice of putting that phrase on paperback covers began because de Graff worried that readers associated paperbacks with abridgments, but it became virtually universal among publishers of paperback reprints, since it suggested that you were finally getting the original, uncensored text.

The civil service system became institutionalized on a small scale during the Sui and Tang dynasties, but by the Song period it became virtually the only means for drafting officials into the government.

But he swatted the criticism aside with a refrain so persistent it became virtually the soundtrack to the 2003 winter.

It prospered intermittently until the Great Depression, when it became virtually a ghost town.

After the Holocaust, it became virtually impossible to condemn any action of the Israeli state.

"But for the partners to have partners who have partners … it becomes virtually impossible to monitor.

"With beliefs like that, it becomes virtually impossible to suppress".

"Once you give it away, it becomes virtually impossible now to monetize it".

It becomes virtually impossible when fiscal and other policies are working at cross-purposes.

Any farther, he said, and it becomes virtually impossible to tell.