Example sentences of "[adj] it [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it meant anything at all it probably meant other people thought you were a bit like them . |
| 2 | The Government 's record on unemployment was a heavily politicized issue , and just as in 1981 it vehemently denied any responsibility for the riots through its pursuit of free-market policies . |
| 3 | In 1947 it had an average daily circulation of 2 , 134,000 copies but in 1961 it only sold 1,394,000 copies . |
| 4 | The Company did very well despite this attitude to its imports ; in the 1660s it made a number of loans to the government , amounting altogether to £130,000 , and in the 1680s it regularly paid 10,000 guineas a year , which came to about 1 per cent of the King 's total revenue . |
| 5 | The mysterious disguise hid the identity of the figure , but could not conceal that it only had one arm . |
| 6 | The forefronting of the Doctor Who monsters , in the wake of the Daleks , was a development which pleased Verity Lambert in that it virtually guaranteed constant press interest in the programme . |
| 7 | Its party chairman , Ivan Velkov , declared that it had existed as a " political circle " since the end of 1988 and as a party since Dec. 30 , 1989 , and that it currently had 10,000 members and adherents . |
| 8 | Like most deserted villages Great Stretton was always on the small side , but in 1563 it still contained fifteen families . |
| 9 | Miles ( 1962 , reviewed in Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) had found that , although the rate of implementation of changed practices in institutions had improved from 1930 ( when it had been estimated that fifteen years needed to elapse before something like 3 per cent of schools adopted a particular change ) , in the 1960s it still required seven years before 11 per cent of schools adopted an innovation . |