Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disappointed , though , that it had so little capacity , that the machine 's power was squandered so liberally on the user interface rather than running the applications . |
| 2 | The emperor attended the première , and seemed to approve , despite his observation that it had too many notes ( ‘ Just as many as are necessary , your majesty , ’ Mozart is said to have replied ) . |
| 3 | The essential feature of the life which Eliot had constructed for himself is that it contained as few surprises as possible : it has been said that , for over thirty years , he patronized the same tailor , the same tobacconist and the same wine merchant . |
| 4 | The most important was that it offered far more opportunity professionally . |
| 5 | The Divisional Court felt that it followed inexorably that privilege must attach to the photocopies made in those circumstances . |
| 6 | The trouble with the poll tax , as with comprehensive education , was that it took too little account of how we really are . |
| 7 | In the western provinces , where the newly established , populist , Reform Party had campaigned strongly against the agreement on the grounds that it made too many concessions to Quebec , the margins of rejection were the highest in the country . |
| 8 | As one of the best records of 1990 it was actually a lucky escape that it sold so few copies , missed Top Of The Pops , slipped the chance of a slot on youth TV and lost the chase for Sunday newspaper publicity . |
| 9 | Over £200 was raised and head teacher Dr. Alan Leech said that it portrayed yet another aspect of music at Bohunt . |
| 10 | He was tall and reasonably good-looking , with a slightly sad , very reserved look which could melt into a charming smile , so intimate that it unbalanced almost any girl he cared to direct it at . |
| 11 | I kept on waking up in a panic , thinking I had missed an observation , and it took quite some while to get my internal clock re-adjusted to normal waking and sleeping hours . |
| 12 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 13 | Concepts like labour organized life in much the same way as the notion of God had done in the Middle Ages , and it had as little material reference . |
| 14 | The good news is Blanc 's medical found nothing untoward — and it revealed very little fat . |
| 15 | This was essentially a biological approach , influenced by the taxonomic studies of Ray , and it aroused so much interest that Ray himself undertook a Latin translation . |
| 16 | Desperately needing to justify her own actions , minimise her behaviour , she thought it all through again from the beginning until it made even less sense than it had before . |
| 17 | The wall was as transparent as glass , but it was as if it revealed only another wall of uniform greyness . |
| 18 | If it happened more this time , it may simply be that , with a higher-than-average turnout ( sunny weather , and so on ) , more people who normally would n't have bothered to vote , did so — and such half-hearted democrats are precisely the ones unlikely to have filled in the form . |
| 19 | Freedom from the restraining hand of a squire or a parson no doubt encouraged enterprise but it meant that much activity went unrecorded . |
| 20 | It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out . |
| 21 | The cobbled lane boasted a pub , the Bargee , which the rivermen used , but it saw very few customers once the wharf gates clanged shut . |
| 22 | But it ate so much procession power that most PCs could n't drive it fast enough , so hardly anyone bought it . |
| 23 | A Congress of People 's Deputies was elected from the whole country , but it contained too many deputies to be an effective parliamentary assembly . |
| 24 | But it put too much pressure on the relationship , and when it finished I realised that he 'd resented what I had done . |
| 25 | But it started again this evening . |
| 26 | And writing it out in a half hour or hour lesson was almost impossible because it took too many sheets of paper . |
| 27 | Emil himself and Oliver delivered the necessary , although Emil on his return said he hoped this was n't going to happen at lunch and dinner also , because it took too much time . |
| 28 | One had tried using a hand-held scanner for the job but had given up because it made too many mistakes . |
| 29 | Aldershot Town 1992 was set up by fans of the original club when it folded earlier this year with huge financial problems . |
| 30 | There was outrage when it emerged recently that home care support for severely disabled users of the new Independent Living ( 1993 ) Fund would be capped at £500 . |