Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although it clearly had dramatic effects on the nerves of Conservative Central Office there is no evidence of any major shift in voting intentions at that time . |
| 2 | But as his success within the Movement , within the German State , and on the international stage grew until it knew no bounds , so the self-deception of the ‘ conviction ’ ideologist magnified to the extent that it ultimately consumed all traces of the calculating and opportunist politician , leaving in its place only a voracious appetite for destruction — and ultimately self-destruction . |
| 3 | Kenya Canners ( now renamed Delmonte Kenya ) was subjected to an Interpol investigation in 1978 , prompted by the fact that it persistently showed local losses while continuing to export 96 per cent of its output . |
| 4 | Arthur Marwick , for example , while agreeing that the evacuation revelations aroused a new sense of social concern ‘ among an articulate few ’ , nevertheless casts doubt upon the idea that it suddenly dispelled middle-class prejudices about there being a feckless and dirty section of the working class . |
| 5 | The Eezit spray was easiest to use and it also neutralised nasty smells . |
| 6 | Bordeaux was described as a ‘ commune , by John in 1206 and it clearly possessed many rights of self-government . |
| 7 | I had witnessed Sam emptying that box many times , and it always contained several pounds , a fortune in those days . |
| 8 | The needs policy was generally more concerned with children 's problems than with their potential , and it totally omitted certain kinds of needs and therefore certain kinds of children , despite its claim to be comprehensive . |
| 9 | At the time of the First World War the Shorthorn was described as the most widely distributed of all the breeds of cattle , both at home and abroad , and it far exceeded other purebreds in Britain while the great majority of commercial crossbreds also relied on Shorthorn blood . |
| 10 | It was when I was about twelve I broke the front of my tooth so I I had a temporary cap put on , and it only lasted six months and came off ! |
| 11 | In spite of a lack of er , sort of er , carol sheets for , for some of us , it really was , as you say , a very enjoyable evening , and I was particularly erm , keen on the , the introduction of Saint Nicolas , and it certainly got smaller children , I think it was er , fantastic , and I certainly have n't enjoyed so er , I 'll be back |
| 12 | The waterway was called the New River , and it originally ran forty miles to Clerkenwell . |
| 13 | Michael Feist Countryside special sites could be in open countryside away from Government policies concerning sustainability , I wonder how Professor Lock would see the situation emerging whereby a local authority has allocated a certain amount of land in its local plan for development for industrial or commercial purposes , it 's tried to erm identify a broad range of criteria but it also identified special sites erm which will only be released in exceptional circumstances , that happened to be an open countryside and had the advantages that it may be a little close to the A one or somewhere similar . |
| 14 | But it also had implicit ones . |
| 15 | The implications of this were discussed almost entirely in relation to the release of land for housing , but it also had considerable implications for the tenure pattern of new housing . |
| 16 | But it also had potential drawbacks , because the use of a church 's income , or part of it , to provide for members of a family could assume a disproportionate weight compared with religious observance . |
| 17 | But it also offered other advantages — protection of British jobs against cheap foreign imports , and an inflow of customs duties to the Treasury which could be used to pay for the escalating costs of both armaments and social reforms . |
| 18 | It was not only intensely irritating , but it also frightened many women off , and made the normal process of two people getting to know one another quite impossible . |
| 19 | It was essentially an extension of the friendly society schemes — the societies helped administer it — but it also covered occupational groups that had never been able to be members . |
| 20 | Another fishing boat tried to tow the Glenmore back to port in rough seas , but it finally sank ninety miles east of Orkney . |
| 21 | After the collapse of Law 's schemes his vast unified company was divided into its component parts again , but it still took some years for the French to recover in India . |
| 22 | This trade was hardly predictable , relying as it did on the uncertain movements of the pelagic fish shoals , but it always attracted large fleets of foreign vessels , mainly those of the Eastern Block states . |
| 23 | But it hardly prevented conciliatory answers . |
| 24 | She disliked losing her temper against her will because it rarely achieved useful results and symbolised impotence rather than strength : always better to channel anger than display it , she thought . |
| 25 | Given Shakeshaft 's conservatism , and the BEA 's long power station construction times , relative backwardness was indeed inevitable , since it effectively placed eleven years between the trial of new technology in America and its first adoption in Britain . |