Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gina 's friends told him that this was a ‘ personal canvas ’ and that it had more integrity than conventional beautified portraiture . |
| 2 | The information available to me , provided by Liverpool city council , is that it accepted 397 households as homeless in the second quarter of this year . |
| 3 | Six countries bordering the Black Sea — Bulgaria , Georgia , Romania , Russia , Turkey and the Ukraine — have agreed on a three year programme to tackle pollution of its waters , after an international scientific group warned that it faced ecological death unless urgent measures were taken . |
| 4 | The main point of the case was that it involved domestic property where the client would suffer ( as a private purchaser ) a relatively great loss if the report were negligent , while the risk that would have been undertaken by the surveyor , if he had accepted liability for negligence , would have been relatively low , since it was a routine survey of domestic property , and for him , as a businessman , the value of the property in question was not relatively a great amount of money . |
| 5 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 6 | Their relationship was further strained when Wolfgang threw security to the winds to go to Vienna , and it suffered irreparable damage when a new and more powerful force — in the form of a prospective bride — entered Wolfgang 's life . |
| 7 | The first meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers was held on 2 January 1818 with eight founder members present , but it made slow progress until in 1820 Telford , who never joined the Smeatonians , agreed to become the first president . |
| 8 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 9 | Mothers welcomed the short hair because it presented less problems than long hair . |
| 10 | A PWR was economic , displacing old plant ; it was a good thing because it used other fuel than coal , or , rather , it was in line with the |
| 11 | At last night 's summit Denmark was also heavily criticised after it demanded further opt-outs before it will sign the agreement . |
| 12 | November : On Nov. 14 all 46 people on board an Alitalia DC9 died when it hit high ground while approaching Zurich airport in Switzerland . |
| 13 | The police poured out to stop them , though it took three nights before the disturbances began to die down . |
| 14 | Well , I know now , though it took some time before my stupid head would accept what my infinitely more sensible heart had been trying to tell it all along . ’ |
| 15 | But Ukraine , though it renounced nuclear weapons when it became independent in 1991 , is now hesitating to ratify START 1 and the Lisbon protocol , and to accede as a non-nuclear state to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) . |