Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The GPS system made its public debut in the recent Gulf War when it enabled allied troops to navigate at night across hundreds of miles of desert to within a few metres . |
| 2 | Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians . |
| 3 | As a mass medium nationally it achieved full status only in 1959 when it started printing in London , dropped Manchester from the mast-head and was distributed nationally like the other Fleet Street dailies . |
| 4 | The slide-car was as old as history yet it had one advantage : the farmer could carry loads on gradients where it would be dangerous to take a wheeled cart . |
| 5 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 6 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |