Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1891 the Review of the Churches began publication and it included representative editors from not only Nonconformity but from the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England . |
2 | Autumn became winter and it turned steely cold . |
3 | The Continent , though devastated by war , was still of enormous significance , a centre of technologically-advanced industrial production , with a large population and it exerted colonial control over much of Africa and Asia . |
4 | The church was not in permanent use and had no resident vicar but it held occasional services and now at Christmas an elderly cleric in retirement had volunteered to conduct a sung Eucharist at nine-thirty with the help of a volunteer choir assembled from the Women 's Institute . |
5 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
6 | Wake , who has taken over from Ron Aitken , said one of BAIE 's strengths was its diversity and it made sound practice , as well as fun , to tap into the network . |
7 | News of his work with the handicapped also leaked out at the centre and it became common knowledge that he was using the OBEX swimming-pool . |
8 | It enrolled less than 50 members but it attracted active support from up to 2,000 sympathizers . |
9 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
10 | It was performed at The Lincoln Centre in New York and it got great reviews . |
11 | It was inspired by Brendan Foster and it brought international athletics to the town and put it on the map . |
12 | This meant that the guest lists had to be scrutinized with great care and it required considerable awareness on the part of Eugénie to be able to decide who would match with whom . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | I looked up the teletext and it said full squad for Manchester United . |
15 | Law meant the right ordering of society on earth and it reflected Divine Law . |
16 | Laing admits that the Spanish company was bought out of desperation and it cost United Biscuits dearly . |