Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She opened a small round leather box to find that it contained tiny gold collar studs and several pairs of cuff links . |
| 2 | Okapi was certainly easy to use and most people found that it needed minimal learning and relearning . |
| 3 | He eventually concludes that it involved another acquisition — this time the American firm of Keebler in 1974 . |
| 4 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 5 | And erm you know the erm er , I , I do n't know whether it had any adjustment changes or what , but |
| 6 | As far as I know , nobody noticed and it remained Labour Party policy for years afterwards . |
| 7 | It is also , more generally , the essence of what the Barclay Report ( 1982 ) was seeking when it characterized social care planning as one of the core roles in which community social workers should be engaged . |
| 8 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 9 | As she hesitated , she glanced at the loose page to see if it offered any clue to its rightful position in the book . |
| 10 | Charlie 's office was small and poky and lightless and overcrowded , but the number of possible hiding places was limited and it seemed that she-d tried them all . |
| 11 | I also asked if it affected sexual performance . |
| 12 | Several years ago , miso came under fire from researchers who claimed that it caused high blood-pressure , then Japan 's number-one killer . |
| 13 | Mrs. Jones did not understand that it had that effect , notwithstanding that the creditor 's solicitor went through the mortgage with her and explained it to her before she signed . |
| 14 | A child under 10 incurs no criminal liability for its acts ; a child over 9 , but under 14 , incurs no such liability , unless it is shown that it had sufficient capacity to know that its act was wrong . |
| 15 | We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going . |
| 16 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 17 | How could we decide whether it had free will or was just a robot , programmed to respond as if it were like us ? |
| 18 | Six countries bordering the Black Sea — Bulgaria , Georgia , Romania , Russia , Turkey and the Ukraine — have agreed on a three year programme to tackle pollution of its waters , after an international scientific group warned that it faced ecological death unless urgent measures were taken . |
| 19 | I am writing as I disagree with various comments made in an article entitled A Pair of Glasses … by Linda Lewis , as I feel that it gave Indian Glassfish a very negative press . |
| 20 | Respondents welcomed the document , clearly indicating that it gave Religious Education parity of status with other areas of the curriculum . |
| 21 | The show has failed to appear in any TV popularity charts and eight of the original cast of virtual unknowns have been axed since it began last summer . |
| 22 | But his own reasoning was different : there were questions he wanted to ask and things he wanted to consider before it became common knowledge that MacQuillan had received a threat typed on a newsroom machine . |
| 23 | Material for publication or transmission would be " reviewed before release " in the field by the military information officer in consultation with the unit commander to determine whether it contained sensitive information . |
| 24 | These industrialists welcomed foreign capital , because they felt that it stimulated economic activity in general , from which they could all benefit ( Petras and Cook 1973 ) . |
| 25 | November : On Nov. 14 all 46 people on board an Alitalia DC9 died when it hit high ground while approaching Zurich airport in Switzerland . |
| 26 | The National Gallery must be very satisfied to have concluded as it did last week . |
| 27 | The Ren & Stimpy Show , featuring possibly the most deranged comic duo in years , became an instant cult hit when it appeared last autumn in pilot form on cable channel Nickleodeon . |
| 28 | The Department of the Environment has rejected the report , claiming that it contained misleading information and that the existing statutory framework was effective in controlling pollution . |
| 29 | That means that means that it prevented high blood pressure as well though . |
| 30 | It 's grown on a , a north facing wall so bit , bit more now I think if it got more sun . |