Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite its apparent relativism , in practice it defined alternative centres of cultural authority primarily in terms of their difference from the norm of English culture , not in their uniqueness and their discontinuities . |
| 2 | Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures . |
| 3 | In 1758 he published a comprehensive pamphlet on this industry , and when later reproduced in the Dictionary it occupied seven pages of text and a further seven of illustration . |
| 4 | Like many other coastal shipping companies it met hard times after the First World War , when motor lorries began taking the general cargoes that used to go by sea to all the little ports . |
| 5 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
| 6 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Football had been a traditionally rowdy and sometimes violent game , but as a regulated spectator sport it provided novel opportunities for conflicts between the players , referees and fans , and there is a well documented history of pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and fighting between rival fans throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century and into the new century . |
| 8 | ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown . |
| 9 | Before the cinema opened the men on the staff were given cigars to puff , so that when you came into the foyer it had that smell of luxury . |
| 10 | Following news that it was working on an open systems ‘ business specification ’ for commercial users and organisations ( UX No 373 ) , the X/Open Group Co Ltd is at last preparing make good some of the promises it made last year about giving users a bigger say in its affairs . |
| 11 | It offended the friends and allies of the USA , especially in western Europe ; and in the Cold War years it provided splendid propaganda for her enemies in the Communist World . |
| 12 | Although the merger gave Roh control of 216 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly it provoked widespread resentment on the grounds that it effectively removed the elected opposition . |
| 13 | Quorum , which says some of the blame for Equal 's delay has been on the legal hassle it had last year with Apple Computer Inc , which held up financing and staffing , will position the product as a Mac application adaptor rather than an emulator . |
| 14 | Quorum , who says some of the blame for Equal 's delay has been on the legal hassle it had last year with Apple ( UX No 393 ) which held up financing and staffing , will position Equal as a Mac application adapter rather than an emulator . |
| 15 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 16 | In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part . |
| 17 | Whereas for John the Kingdom came as a threat to a people who were unprepared , for Jesus it represented good news to those who felt unworthy or excluded . |
| 18 | From a distance it resembled some piece of modern sculpture : disjointed planes , random angles , a lot of holes . |
| 19 | For a while it organised mass meetings outside Eastbourne and Rye and sought to push up wages during the harvest season . |
| 20 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 21 | Last week it announced first-quarter contributions of £11.1m from CMB — the result of the £900m merger between Metal Box and the French Carnaud company . |
| 22 | The pace of change was desultory , and the district only began work on contracting under the impetus of the neighbouring district it provided acute services for . |
| 23 | The group doubled the number of passengers it carried last year to 1.65m and should perform even better this year following the purchase in September of Pickfords Travel from NFC for more than £16m . |
| 24 | At its worst it may have been a parasitic racket representing only itself to the detriment of all , but on the larger canvas of society it gave political power to a narrow group of substantial landowners in loose alliance with merchant princes and the small towns which returned members to Parliament . |
| 25 | It knew somehow that it belonged there , not here , and when thunder boomed in the sky it heard that thunder in its newly transmogrified body . |
| 26 | He was rehearsing Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and the lines had fled ; what he hung on to was the physical business , and when he did some of it to the mirror it seemed poor stuff for the old Living Boomerang . |
| 27 | In the case of the News International ban it offered clear guidance on how the professional should react . |
| 28 | In addition it followed Roman Law on rape . |
| 29 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 30 | Eventually , the slurry not only reached the bottom of the main shaft , over the following 24 hours it rose 16 feet up it . |