Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak . |
| 4 | And erm you know the erm er , I , I do n't know whether it had any adjustment changes or what , but |
| 5 | It will act as it did last Friday , with determination and sensitivity . |
| 6 | Although this looked worse than it might have done since it covered fourteen months instead of twelve — the result of an adjustment to a different financial year — such figures demanded a response . |
| 7 | Sadly much of the animosity generated about Cochrane and Bennett originated from within No 5 Group and a great deal I was able to counter before it reached tap-room levels , I never felt I was running with the fox because I had great feeling and admiration for both these Olympian " gores , in fact , Cochrane invited me to move to No 5 Group with him when he left No 3 Group , but I declined as I was in mid-tour . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After that , Waits retreats into his usual ho humdrum bummed-out bluesywoozy alkie drone mode mood muzak , the sort of mozzery gushy mush your dog would make if it had vocal chords and could handle its drink . |
| 11 | As she hesitated , she glanced at the loose page to see if it offered any clue to its rightful position in the book . |
| 12 | I also asked if it affected sexual performance . |
| 13 | Under her direction , the squad became a very close-knit affair comprising as it did four cousins , six nephews and a younger brother ( 42 ) . |
| 14 | We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going . |
| 15 | How could we decide whether it had free will or was just a robot , programmed to respond as if it were like us ? |
| 16 | But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straightforward computer graphics . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Many of the ordinary Panamanians who gave the general such a stinging defeat in May 's annulled elections were astonished that the US allowed the coup to collapse when it had 12,000 troops stationed around the canal . |
| 21 | A keen breeze had sprung up and they watched as it chased fallen leaves along the pavement , blowing them into little heaps against the red brick wall . |
| 22 | November : On Nov. 14 all 46 people on board an Alitalia DC9 died when it hit high ground while approaching Zurich airport in Switzerland . |
| 23 | The National Gallery must be very satisfied to have concluded as it did last week . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It 's grown on a , a north facing wall so bit , bit more now I think if it got more sun . |
| 26 | The social welfare and material benefits which the imperialist state could grant to workers in Britain and Germany at the turn of the twentieth century allowed capitalism to survive because it divided Third World workers from their similarly exploited , if differently rewarded , working-class brethren in the industrialised centre of the world economy . |
| 27 | At last night 's summit Denmark was also heavily criticised after it demanded further opt-outs before it will sign the agreement . |
| 28 | ‘ The Michelangelo computer virus that received worldwide attention last year is expected to cause even fewer problems this Saturday than it did when it struck last year , a team of IBM researchers said ’ . |
| 29 | The government of Taiwan announced on May 11 that the vessel was free to dock in the country but that it would not be allowed to return if it violated international law by making unauthorized broadcasts to the mainland . |
| 30 | Timothy crossed the car-park , glad that the publican was whistling since it suggested good humour . |