Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the theory of light was unified with the theory of electromagnetism , although it took another 30 years before Heinrich Hertz was able to demonstrate positively that electromagnetic waves did exist . |
| 2 | The sentencer regarded the case as an exceptional one The Court considered that it had many exceptional features which would allow a sentencer to reduce the sentence which would otherwise have been imposed , but it was seldom in such a case that a sentence of less than seven years would be appropriate . |
| 3 | The CEGB would perhaps be more fully convincing in its argument on fuel diversity if it could show that it had more real commitment to the development and use over a long time scale of renewable-energy technologies . |
| 4 | The Iraqi government had informed the UN that same evening that it accepted all 12 UN resolutions without conditions . |
| 5 | We gave a few outlines of schemes of work and bits and pieces of information , but I would n't have said that it caused any great feeling of self-analysis . |
| 6 | Although this memorandum was immediately denounced and repudiated , there is no doubt that it touched some sensitive nerves . |
| 7 | He believed that communications was only different in that it offered some vocational skills . |
| 8 | ‘ Thirty years ago Julian Huxley and Eliot Slater speculated that the reason why the disadvantageous schizophrenia gene was not progressively eliminated from the gene pool was that it conveyed some biological advantage such as resistance to infection . |
| 9 | I was only three-and-a-half when I saw the Zeppelin , although I can not claim that it kindled any positive interest in flying . |
| 10 | She believes that it prevented many Labour supporters from registering on the electoral roll ( in the hope of avoiding payment ) , thus depriving Mr Kinnock of a large number of votes . |
| 11 | It was so successful that it replaced all other control methods and the insect ceased to be a major pest . |
| 12 | The first time was during the 1930s , when the court first read the commerce clause of the constitution so narrowly that it gutted much New Deal legislation , and then suddenly reversed itself . |
| 13 | The government , denying that it held any political prisoners , ordered the women to end their protest , saying that opposition supporters were taking advantage of it to cause unrest . |
| 14 | The River Weaver had been improved in 1733 , but the improvement of the Sankey Brook Navigation from the coalfield around St Helens in 1754 – 7 was especially significant in that it involved several new cuts . |
| 15 | Although the civil rights strategy could not have been adopted by republicans without the approval of the leadership of the IRA — and Roy Johnston stressed the importance of its involvement in the Maghera meeting of 1966 — — this does not mean that the army council initiated the setting up of NICRA or that it paid any detailed attention to the work being done by republicans within the association . |
| 16 | I addressed first two ancient problems : the relationship between Luke and Acts ( I found that Acts resembled Luke more than it resembled any other book of the NT ) and the relationship between the Apocalypse and the Gospel of St John ( I found that they differed from each other more than any other two books of the NT ) . |
| 17 | But the beginning of the end of economic growth in the seventies resulted in massive unemployment which affected the minorities more than it did any other group . |
| 18 | Once it had this raw patch on its nose and I went with Davey when he took it to the vet . |
| 19 | And it took all this time to get here . |
| 20 | We did not have much time to smarten up the old girl and it took much hard work to soften the ravages of time . |
| 21 | And we went to the one next to it and it had all naked women in it . |
| 22 | It did n't quite reach up to Carfax , and it had another great landmark , as well as the big , rich college of Christchurch , and that was the Guildhall , built at the centre of the civic power , which was more or less , well , just where the Town Hall is now . |
| 23 | And it converted many more economists to the liberal , anti-interventionist wing of their trade . |
| 24 | Mossop could not remember the address and it required several false starts and wrong turnings before they located the right house , one grey-dashed end-of-terrace dwelling among the featureless many that spread like silt round the fenced-off acres of pipelines and flares . |
| 25 | therefore investigated recognition memory for conversation in a ‘ soap opera ’ and found that the surface form of an utterance was remembered if it carried some pragmatic meaning . |
| 26 | Nobody asked the Public Service official anything , and Yggdrasil would have spoken up if it had any strong objections . |
| 27 | He really must get back to the library and see if it had any more books on the subject . |
| 28 | He held the book out between finger and thumb as if it contained some dangerous virus which at any moment could threaten the whole school . |
| 29 | Still , she did n't mind at all having the blame laid at her door if it saved some other female from having to put up with his unwanted attentions . |
| 30 | " Pictures for the People " was a grand slogan , and if it extracted some national treasures from London for display in Middlesbrough and Huddersfield , it might even do some good . |