Example sentences of "[be] [conj] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE only way men could be relied on to take the proposed male contraceptive pill would be if it enlarged certain parts of their anatomy in the way the female pill enlarges breasts . |
| 2 | The particular benefits of this approach for this study were that it provided quantitative data on important treatment/intervention issues in a population where group-comparison studies alone would be inappropriate , because of the individual nature of each person 's challenging behaviour and the small number of potential subjects . |
| 3 | The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What constitutes the novelty of the Hellenistic age is that it gave international circulation to ideas , while strongly reducing their revolutionary impact . |
| 6 | That 's if it had any sockets upstairs ! |
| 7 | The gravest doubt which has assailed historians about Charlemagne 's moral and educational programme is whether it had much effect . |
| 8 | The whole raison d'etre of that early Christian community was that it believed certain things of Christ — at the very least , that it was he whom God had raised from the dead . |
| 9 | The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck . |
| 10 | It has been shown above that those with larger mortgages and those on higher incomes benefit most from MITR , but one of the main arguments originally put forward to justify its existence was that it benefited first-time buyers , enabling them to purchase a house which would otherwise have been beyond their means . |
| 11 | The benefit of the system was that it demanded that society intervened for those who were under great pressure and could not take the stress . |
| 12 | Another criticism of the Leeds adjournment system was that it added further stress to socially disadvantaged people already living under stressful conditions . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One notable feature of the gold standard was that it allowed automatic adjustment to take place via changes in expenditure and output . |
| 15 | The positive achievement of this tradition was that it allowed different communities , and their claims over their members , to be acknowledged and valued with a new , official respect . |
| 16 | What was impressive about the group was that it included six US Nobel laureates in economics and a broad bi-partisan collection of the best of American economic thought . |
| 17 | One of the good things about the school was that it overlooked open countryside , where there were usually buzzards and kestrels flying around . |
| 18 | ‘ Only when it was in the net did I realise what size it was and it weighed 26 ob 8 oz , ’ added John who went on to bank five other pike , two of 8 lb 8 oz , and others of 10 lb , 11lb and 14 lb . |