Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless Count Christoph Douglas , head of Sotheby 's in Germany , declared that he has ‘ complete confidence in Berlin ’ as a location and with the level and amount of bidding at the sale , some of it keenly fought and much of it this time conducted by telephone . |
| 2 | While the Comintern policy was nominally accepted in Britain it was only vocal extremists , backed by the Comintern , who wished to see it rigorously enforced . |
| 3 | When that ‘ civilised ’ society realised that science creates problems as well as solving them , it gladly turned to space-gods and their companions . |
| 4 | The grammar did not offer total coverage of the language ( it successfully parsed 65% of the corpus it was tested on ) but was intended as a supplement to the results from the Markov analysis of the stenotography . |
| 5 | He said that Iraq had achieved " a complicated scientific leap " when it successfully tested the launching . |
| 6 | Italy accepted that there would be economic disadvantages , though in the negotiations it successfully managed to gain some important concessions for its own steel industry : but the economic worries took a clear secondary position to the political factors which were the major motives for Italy 's participation . |
| 7 | The leopard 's spots provided excellent camouflage in the wide range of habitats in which it successfully lived . |
| 8 | On the other hand the BDDA scored a triumph , which it circulated " to every mission and school for the deaf and dumb in the United Kingdom " , when it successfully campaigned for the nondiscriminatory insurance of deaf and dumb people in employment under the Workmen 's Compensation , Unemployment and Invalidity Acts which the Lloyd George Government passed early in the twentieth century . |
| 9 | First , it developed the concept of integrated and comprehensive provision ; secondly , in making a connection between school and wage-earning ‘ it successfully rendered the transition as a social and educational process ; thirdly , it made vocational guidance and after-care appear to be essential features of any youth employment scheme ; fourthly , it showed that the service could offer significant opportunities for exercising a personal influence over the adolescent and his family . |
| 10 | The space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth on April 29 following a five-day mission during which it successfully deployed the US$1,500 million Hubble Space Telescope jointly developed by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) and the European Space Agency ( ESA ) . |
| 11 | Much of the Alliance advance occurred in its traditional heartlands of the north , where it successfully exploited economic and political insecurities of the local bourgeoisie . |
| 12 | In the years 1952–5 , it successfully defended its primacy in Lebanese affairs despite its rout on the battlefield in 1952 . |
| 13 | It successfully portrayed itself as having the solution to Britain 's economic problems which it saw as being due to excessive State intervention in every sphere , and to the dependence mentality which this produced . |
| 14 | Obviously radio would never recover the prominence of the post-war years , but it successfully re-established itself as meeting a need complementary to TV , whether judged by audience figures or by advertising revenue . |
| 15 | The nation is haunted by what happened in 1940 , when it metaphorically came out with its hands up as Soviet tanks rolled in while world war was raging . |
| 16 | In a string of unconnected announcements , IBM Corp yesterday said that the version of DB2 for OS/2 is generally available after a successful beta test , that it has a set of software development tools for the object-oriented C++ language , and it duly launched the Thinkpad 720 . |
| 17 | It duly went septic . |
| 18 | In response to the proposed new guidelines the FMLN , which had demobilized the first 20 per cent of its forces in June [ see p. 38957 ] and a further 20 per cent on Sept. 21 , agreed to disband the next 20 per cent on Oct. 31 ( on which date it duly proceeded with the disarming of some 1,000 guerrillas ) , a further 20 per cent on Nov. 20 and the final 20 per cent on Dec. 15 . |
| 19 | The Prime Minister 's speech was eagerly anticipated by the educational and wider community and it duly received the full media treatment . |
| 20 | It duly noted that extra money would not necessarily buy better health . |
| 21 | It duly appeared on the front cover of Music Week the following week : BRANSON BOMBSHELL : VIRGIN CHIEF SEEKS £2OM CITY BACKING TO PUT CABLE MUSIC INTO MILLIONS OF HOMES . |
| 22 | Having emerged from this complex background , the book evinced an eccentric fidelity to Ritschl 's advice , when it duly appeared after the suggested " couple of years " . |
| 23 | A goal had to come , and it duly arrived in a moment of magic after 33 minutes . |
| 24 | This it duly did , accepting , though not without some strong opposition , the draft of a working party on 10 March 1953 . |
| 25 | It duly approached the Educational Research Centre of the Essex Institute of Higher Education with the suggestion that a proposal for funding be made to the British Library Research and Development Department ( BLR&DD ) . |
| 26 | It duly emerged that the Iraqi incursion amounted to a four-pronged attack , partly in the south near Basrah and partly farther north along the frontier , to the east of Baghdad , in what later evolved into the ‘ central front ’ . |
| 27 | The changing relationship between the newspaper and its readers and the changing content of the newspaper had one other important impact on the long-term development of the press : it fundamentally altered the newspaper 's expectations of its readers . |
| 28 | It weakly raised one ravaged and shredded arm towards him . |
| 29 | By 1871 a photograph shows it little changed . |
| 30 | Mrs Smith said that there was a presumption that parliament , when legislating , did not intend to depart from the existing common law unless it expressly said so . |