Example sentences of "[verb] it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina .
2 To accept it required a whole sociology of crime .
3 When Taylor acquired his Coniston lease it excluded a small sett previously granted to one Mathew Spedding .
4 Although the affair was soon forgotten it took a long time for Phil to live down that one !
5 My hair had more shine than before and I found it left a stronger smell than other conditioners which I really liked .
6 Led by this hint they opened the ground not far from the wall ; and not much more than a foot away from the surface they found a leaden envelope which they opened in two places , on the face and breast , and found it contained a human body wrapped in cerecloth : Upon removing what covered the face , they discovered the features , and particularly the eyes , in perfect preservation .
7 MIPS says it made a strong effort at the beginning to get the SCO on very favourable terms but the sponsorship just was n't there .
8 Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ .
9 D&B says it evaluated a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't require SQL programming skills .
10 Siemens AG says it won a Bulgarian contract worth more than $6.3m to modernise and expand the country 's telephone systems : Siemens will deliver more than 80,000 EWSD digital exchange lines and fibre cable : its Digicom Bulgarian joint venture set up last year with a local partner , will install the kit in Sophia and in northern Bulgaria by 1996 .
11 Dun says it weighed a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't need SQL programming skills .
12 So what they had done it had a big slab there and it had got on it er The World 's Largest Slate Mine , and perhaps you 've seen it yourself they 've rubbed the T off and they put V and somebody 's done a very good job of it er in the same paint and everything .
13 Fiona Weir , FoE 's air pollution campaigner , said that the group did not feel it had the necessary expertise or information to produce warnings on " nuclear winter " effects , ozone depletion and acid rain .
14 It looked awful at first — so bad it was wonderful — but as it dried it revealed an incredible gradient of colour . ’
15 That a gentleman should do it showed an uncommon understanding of the difficulties involved in running businesses with too much debt outstanding .
16 On one of their visits , there was an uncanny , if hilarious , echo of the kind of political and religious turmoil experienced by Olive 's family in years gone by One day they were boarding a boat and noticed it contained a large number of sticks , shaped like rifles .
17 Quorshi commented that companies would only do this when they were satisfied that both the PC product and the company selling it had the proper standing .
18 But to avoid it meant a long detour to get into Barn Street , and she was shivering with wet and cold .
19 With the black , you know it had the black bit as well
20 A Grand Jury in California handed up indictments against two officers of Symantec Corp alleging that they stole trade secrets from Borland International Inc after a six-month investigation by the district attorney 's office of Santa Cruz County , California into the allegations that a Borland officer brought confidential company material with him when he left Borland to join Symantec ; Symantec says that last it hired an independent law firm to look into the charges , and it was given the opinion that there was no crime committed and that none of the items constitute trade secrets .
21 San Diego-based GTI Corp , majority owned by Telemetrix Plc , responded to a $1.50 fall in its share price to $21.75 on Friday by saying it saw no fundamental reason for it , adding that it expects to report ‘ continuing positive results ’ this quarter after four quarters of increases of 100% or more .
22 While he was inside , however , the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the state law , saying it violated the first-amendment guarantee of free speech .
23 The Crown Princess of Jordan opened an exhibition of his work saying it captured the real colour of life .
24 Some of the sacked workers were delighted at news of the departure , saying it removed a major obstacle to settling the bitter five-month row .
25 At the end of May 1792 the College decided it had no further occasion for the service of Blaine , who had been assisting Vial as demonstrator in anatomy .
26 When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme .
27 When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme .
28 Although the member States had created the Council , once established it became a separate entity with its own international executive .
29 I believe it had a thatched roof and it was such a bonny place , but it has sadly been derelict for years .
30 I believe it provided a turning point .
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