Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] it [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Of course this made it clear that von Neumann 's " proof " needed reappraisal , a task successfully accomplished by John Bell .
2 This made it clear that periti might not all be theologians ( 'canonists and other experts ’ were also mentioned ) , and that there was a distinction between conciliar periti and private advisers to bishops .
3 They called the job crow-keeping , a phrase that Shakespeare used to describe it ; some called it bird-keeping or bird-tending — keeping the birds off the newly sown land — while others referred to it simply as rook-scaring .
4 Some spoke it better than others .
5 Stockman , Regan and the president all made it clear that compromise was not on offer — a position that Jones rightly interpreted as an assault on congressional prerogatives .
6 An OECD study in 1989 found it unlikely that MOX could compete with uranium under realistic circumstances .
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