Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alvarez was fully aware of the ‘ bad news ’ part of the equation-the muon 's brief life which only allowed it to catalyse a handful of fusions before it perished . |
| 2 | Not only did it meet the airline 's losses without the latter suffering any real penalty , but it enabled it to pursue its plans to take a 6 billion franc ( 37.5 per cent ) shareholding in the Belgian state-owned carrier Sabena , which was in an equally parlous financial state . |
| 3 | Not only did it designate the nature and appearance of crime , but it also reappeared as causally implicated : in both classical criminology and the new deviance perspective , the amount of crime was primarily a function of the operations of the criminal justice system . |
| 4 | How long did it take the pupils to join in the activity ? 3 . |
| 5 | I s I , I never really played with Windows , I just installed it to do the job of running this one application and then left it alone . |
| 6 | SOMERSET County Cricket Club yesterday announced it made a profit of £82,612 during the last year , although chief executive Peter Anderson warned that the county is still in debt . |
| 7 | Perhaps only William Joyce could have taken for his text , as he once did , Edmund Burke 's axiom , ‘ In politics magnanimity is often the truest wisdom ’ — and promptly used it to show the necessity for the extinction of Jewry . |
| 8 | As we have seen , horses can learn some things very quickly , and once learnt it becomes a habit so they do n't have to reconsider the matter each time it arises . |
| 9 | This gave the borough a corporate personality at law , with the right to sue and be sued , and also empowered it to exclude the shire officials and be directly responsible to the central government . |
| 10 | She also used it to put the fires out . |
| 11 | So Mr Tomlinson kept the 24v wiring and also extended it to power the worklights on the front and rear of the cab . |
| 12 | At first Bakhtin found this quality , otherwise ‘ polyphony ’ or ‘ heteroglossia ’ , to be particularly characteristic of Dostoevsky , but he later extended it to typify the novel as a genre . |
| 13 | Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems Inc says it has decided on the Code Division Multiple Access technology for its national digital cellular strategy : the Motorola Nortel Communications Inc joint venture will supply the hardware and software for the company 's first deployment in the northeast market in early 1994 ; Bell Atlantic also said it signed a letter of intent with AT&T Secure Communications Systems to test AT&T Secure 's cellular wireless data equipment over the Bell Atlantic network , which the company expects will make possible error-free transmission of cellular data . |
| 14 | It also said it has a plan to converge OSF/1 and OSF/l MK , its anticipated microkernel , into a single microkernel-based next generation OSF/1 , presumably in keeping with prior intentions ( UX No 373 ) . |
| 15 | George fumbled out the little pinhole torch and watched as Maxim delicately smeared a film of shoe polish on the end of his key then probed ag in and immediately withdrew it to study the marks on the polish . |
| 16 | ‘ We have n't shown the cornflower blue yet and I particularly wanted it to have an airing . |
| 17 | The testator had made a will , but then opened it to have a look at it . |
| 18 | Although fully furnished it had an air of emptiness and desolation . |
| 19 | How did it reach the Seychelles ? |
| 20 | How did it affect the way the story about the fight is told , for example , or the uses to which the unofficial communique was put ? |
| 21 | Why did it have a question mark ? |
| 22 | Now why did it get a reprieve ? |
| 23 | Where else did it say the roads are blocked Jim ? |
| 24 | Hit and run — a serious offence , but when had it merited the attention of a Detective Chief Superintendent ? |
| 25 | More likely used it to saw a hole through a pound coin . |
| 26 | As we come to discover and worry about our own lack of autonomy , we discover in the past a similar lack of autonomy but , importantly in the Renaissance , a body of writing which never believed it possessed the power of independent expression in the first place . |