Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice it made very little difference whether an actor , writer or director accused of being tainted with Communism claimed the right to be silent or not . |
| 2 | When added to the usual treatments for this condition it cleared up persistent ulcers in 40 out of 60 cases . |
| 3 | To Manville it meant only one thing . |
| 4 | So absurd was the idea to Weinberger that he seems never to have understood the hold it acquired over other people , including the President . |
| 5 | With losses amounting to £71m ( $137m ) in Italian life insurance , Guardian Royal Exchange , a British insurance company , is shedding two of three Italian subsidiaries it bought nearly two years ago . |
| 6 | In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners . |
| 7 | The membership of SDS grew rapidly from about 4000 in 1965 to some 100,000 three years later , and throughout this period it had much larger numbers of supporters who identified themselves in some way with ‘ the Movement ’ . |
| 8 | The following day it froze as icy winds swept the country . |
| 9 | It could oversee the substantial new academic development but it could not determine the shape of the sector of higher education it performed only one part in developing . |
| 10 | At its foundation it employed only eight officials ; and this number did not increase much for the next half-century . |
| 11 | Pitching : on one wild and windy night it took just five minutes to put up the inner . |
| 12 | WH SMITH has dropped its legal action against five directors it dismissed in August from Our Price Music , the record retailing chain it took over three years ago . |
| 13 | In material terms it gave only modest returns . |
| 14 | The film starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine was a huge success , but for some people it left too many questions unanswered . |
| 15 | As the war approached , her father , Colonel Joshua Murchison had sent her to live with his sister in California It had almost broken Yanto 's heart at the time . |
| 16 | At birth it weighed about 40 kilos . |
| 17 | With the help of Haslington and Sandbach Knitting Clubs it took just ten days to fill 18 large bin liners and two machines were donated as well . |
| 18 | Although the 1935 general election confirmed its position as the only main challenger for the left-wing vote , in that election it secured only 154 MPs — less than a quarter of the total membership of the Commons . |
| 19 | Last Autumn it gave up all pretence of continuing on in the business and sold off its Personal Mainframe hardware interests to clone newcomer Digital Systems Research ( UX No 407 ) . |
| 20 | Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc said it will shortly start shipping the Cray S-MP system , the first in a planned series of Sparc-based servers from Cray Research Superservers Inc , the subsidiary it formed around the Floating Point Systems Inc assets it acquired late last year . |
| 21 | AFTER reading the articles on dyslexic children it brought back this time last year when my son Steven , who is dyslexic , was trying for an engineering apprenticeship . |
| 22 | When , at its first meeting in 1831 , the British Association called for a report on the state of mathematics it elicited only three sections , on algebra , trigonometry and the arithmetic of sines , which almost completely ignored the major developments of the previous century and a half . |
| 23 | In some places the peat was only a few feet deep whereas in others it went down several yards . |
| 24 | Indeed , in London the Alliance made large gains in Tower Hamlets , but in neighbouring Islington it held only one seat in a council it had previously controlled . |
| 25 | In fact it allowed very few off-worlders on to the planet , and they were mostly technicians with special skills — who were required to live restricted lives in special compounds , hardly ever mixing with the local population . |