Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ramblers ' Association said it welcomed any measures that allowed more people to walk in the countryside , and assistant director David Baskine said : ‘ It is important that the proposals will not offer payment to farmers who own land where public access is already allowed . ’ |
| 2 | McKinsey said it had several programmes in place to build the information technology capability of its consulting staff , and Information Consulting could accelerate the process . |
| 3 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 4 | 84% felt it covered all aspects associated with the subject matter . |
| 5 | The 1988 Criminal Justice Act extended it to cover all crimes where a few thousand pounds are involved . |
| 6 | On the question of whether the locomotive would be available to complete the double 8F' Cumbrian Mountain Express at the end of October , Mr Draper advised that the locomotive would be available if BR required it to complete this roster . |
| 7 | It was very basic indeed , and only by dint of preparation for the royal visitor did it have any carpeting on the stairs . |
| 8 | He does n't think Joe wanted it to end that way . |
| 9 | And there was a Yorkshire firm covered it covered that road tarmac or something they said , It 'll last twenty years . |
| 10 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 11 | Speaking in a Belfast safe house a hooded IRA member claimed it had enough explosives and terrorists in place for a major offensive . |
| 12 | European movements of national liberation were the most important forms of popular rebellion during their lifetime , but the intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century London as well as their own convictions made it seem that nationalism was a temporary phase , and that internationalism was the norm , or at least the force that would grow most powerfully in the future . |