Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brass work was cast in the brass foundry , and from there it was sent to the brass finishing shop for machining and cleaning up , afterwards traversing the plating department where it received either venetian bronze , oxidised silver or plain brass lacquer finish , next passing to position No 3 for fixing in the carriage . |
| 2 | The enormity of this lie was so great that its ripples did in fact spread out one of the lower astral planes as far as the Magical Quarter across the river , where it picked up tremendous velocity from the huge standing wave of power that always hovered there and bounced wildly across the Circle Sea . |
| 3 | All the groups faced one of two basic choices : either the loan carried much higher APR as the repayment period grew longer ; or it carried much lower APR as the repayment period grew longer . |
| 4 | The man had never seen it , although it lay only twenty miles to the north . |
| 5 | The decree also declared that the union and republican governments should investigate ways of transforming inefficient collective and state farms into private or co-operative farms , although it ruled out compulsory dissolution . |
| 6 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 7 | However , it is possible that the ratio of hidden to known use provided by Method 4 is nearer to the true ratio than the others because , although it involved less accurate determination of identity codes , the larger numbers of nominees involved may dilute the effect of extreme cases . |
| 8 | In the 1930s and 1940s research on one large mollusc , the squid , revealed that it had truly giant nerve axons , which could be dissected out individually and were big enough to insert electrodes into . |
| 9 | Here was a country so backward that it had only one landing strip , a mile of tarmacadam road , six schools and two hospitals that were really little more than clinics . |
| 10 | One glance at Hannah 's meadows told me that it had very real prospects because it did not have the lush , emerald green appearance of chemically fertilized land . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Suppose a botanist working on the taxonomy of the ( hypothetical ) Peruvian bladder-grass family ( Vesicaliaceae ) discovered that it contained only one genus , Vesicalia , and that the genus had but one species , V. peruviensis . |
| 15 | Labour leaders in the USA claimed that NAFTA would destroy jobs and that it offered little concrete provision for retraining . |
| 16 | The most important was that it offered far more opportunity professionally . |
| 17 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |
| 18 | The Divisional Court felt that it followed inexorably that privilege must attach to the photocopies made in those circumstances . |
| 19 | Although the mainstream group , Fatah , made clear that it ruled out any question of subverting the Hashemite regime , other groups , of which the PFLP was the most notable , made equally clear their view that the overthrow of the Hashemites was a necessary preliminary to the recovery of Palestine . |
| 20 | Indeed , the only good thing about their confrontation against Sukova and Novotna is that it took just 50 minutes to complete , with the established Czech combination sweeping to a 6-2 , 6-2 victory and a place in the semi-finals against the United States . |
| 21 | The trouble with the poll tax , as with comprehensive education , was that it took too little account of how we really are . |
| 22 | Here , contamination with metals , says Battarbee , occurs ‘ about ten years before the first evidence of acidification ’ , which suggests that it took only ten years to exhaust the lake 's capacity to buffer pollution . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Both the size and the overall structure of the text helped enormously here , in that it comprised only 11 sentences totalling 130 words . |
| 26 | Though he had never seen their cottage he seemed to remember that his aunt had told him that it lay about two miles to the south . |
| 27 | Vienna , Virginia-based America Online Inc said that it added over 25,000 subscribers to its bulletin board service in the last month : Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen has plans for the company . |
| 28 | An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman . |
| 29 | It obviously was n't accidental that it worked out that way . |
| 30 | The answer is that it included particularly rich concentrations of royal resources : Dorestad with its emporium and mint ; major churches , including the metropolitan sees of Rheims and Sens , and rich abbeys like St-Denis and St-Wandrille , on whose endowments the Carolingians had laid their hands ; a number of royal palaces , and many royal estates and forests , both Carolingian patrimonial lands around the lower Meuse and old Merovingian ones in the Seine basin , especially along the Oise ; and last but not least , good communications , including a surviving Roman road-network . |