Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 2 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 3 | Out of the rock 's foot grew a shadow so dark that it contained all colours . |
| 4 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 5 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |
| 6 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 7 | Built on the banks of the Tyne and opened in 1873 , it had been extended in 1893 until it stood three storeys high , 609 ft. long and 330 ft. wide . |
| 8 | The growth of the ‘ displacement ’ model would be understandable if it resolved individual difficulties or reduced the general incidence of difficulty . |
| 9 | The bid-ask spread was so large that it converted significant profits into significant losses . |
| 10 | It has leg-like fins with fleshy bases like the coelacanth ; it seems very likely that it had air-breathing pouches from its gut like a lungfish . |
| 11 | June 1873 , the Prince and Princess of Wales held a garden party there , at which Queen Victoria , also the Shah of Persia , were present , and the list of guests was so long that it filled three columns of the Times . |
| 12 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 13 | Disliking the Tories more than he disliked Labour , he declared that on the defeat of Baldwin 's Government in the new Parliament , the King should ask MacDonald to form an administration , which he and his fellow Liberals would keep in office as long as it avoided extremist policies . |
| 14 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 15 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 16 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 17 | The problem was that every time they took it over 250 mph the left wing became so heavy that it needed two hands to hold it up . |
| 18 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |
| 19 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |
| 20 | Its deliberations had been hurried , its request for evidence stressed the need for a brevity viewed by many as excessive and it lacked sufficient resources to produce a credible alternative to any Government proposals . |
| 21 | He explained to me that it must be stronger because it contained stronger bonds and more of them than any previous material . |
| 22 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 23 | The borough argued that the leaflet was misleading because it omitted all references to the joint liability of spouses and cohabiting couples . |
| 24 | During the seventies this form of finance became comparatively more attractive as it offered variable rates of interest ( which are tax deductible ) and the short nature of these loans was mitigated by the banks ' willingness to roll-over these loans on request . |