Example sentences of "[noun] it [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Imperial Airways ground staff at Karachi assisted with the repair of the Croydon , but without the facilities available in England it still took several weeks . |
| 2 | When Windows was in the same place it only had 25,000 kits out . |
| 3 | Heterosexism was a theory that was increasingly attractive to lesbian and gay socialists , but in the mid-1980s it still carried little clout in the lesbian and gay communities as a whole . |
| 4 | Like its predecessors , it attracted attention from many sources , and in the liberal or liberated social climate of the post-war years it probably created more problems than it solved . |
| 5 | As it exercised no rights it also owned 1,100,000 shares following the issue . |
| 6 | In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left . |
| 7 | When the new Republic formally came into being in September it indeed had many difficulties to overcome . |
| 8 | Even at this size it completely outclassed most Rutland villages , quite two-thirds of which had populations of fewer than 150 . |
| 9 | While management attention was diverted into new projects it also missed obvious opportunities : the company took decades to figure out that it could sell work-wear as well as party dresses . |
| 10 | But I had a problem in that very often people wanted a double wardrobe moving and of course it then needed two men . |
| 11 | After the breakthrough with Chaman it still took two months of regular visits with Zakir before I got to know the other eunuchs properly . |
| 12 | In the early Middle Ages it often meant kaleidoscopic change on the political scene but the new pattern ( unlike a kaleidoscope 's ) took some time to form . |
| 13 | As the season drew to a close it actively encouraged early retirement and voluntary redundancy amongst its older or less productive workers and filled the resulting vacancies with the most productive temporary workers . |
| 14 | Last year it only sold 5,500 houses in 12 months , but this year it has already sold 4,160 houses in the first five months . |
| 15 | And to women it rarely gave any opportunity at all . |
| 16 | Jacobitism became attractive to a variety of different groups in the 1690s , including commonwealth Whigs , although at this time it still had little support in society at large . |
| 17 | although in fact it still had some way to run ; the third were presents given when the case really was over . |