Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] it [adj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notion of putting down the hardcore floor of the hangar using NAM volunteers and not the contractor made it possible to slice £10,000 off the cost of the project . |
| 2 | After watching DEA Nicosia at work , Coleman readily understood why the DIA felt it necessary to monitor Hurley 's activities . |
| 3 | In 1970 , the Equal Pay Act made it unlawful to pay women less than men for doing the same or similar work ( although this was not to be implemented until 1975 ) . |
| 4 | The climate of deregulation made it necessary to remove restrictions on the ability of building societies to compete in financial markets . |
| 5 | Such an open-ended commitment to a government that most Unionists regarded with contempt could hardly last for long : Law found it convenient to make use of the Unionist Business Committee , constituted in January 1915 as an official opposition group , and he suggested Walter Long as its chairman , so harnessing Long 's vindictive powers and giving the party some means of influencing the government without breaking the party truce . |
| 6 | There will be no conclusions today because , says chairman Brian Walsh , ‘ the committee felt it necessary to find time for a full discussion on cricket outside of the agenda planned for the next scheduled meeting on 26 October . ’ |
| 7 | Marie Jennings of the Money Management Council thought it unfair to expose people with little knowledge of sales techniques to ‘ offers ’ such as holiday homes and trying out cars . |
| 8 | In 1977 , the Commission felt it necessary to reconsider EC regional policy in view of the fact that its operation had highlighted certain difficulties . |
| 9 | His own opening gambit made it impossible to take offence . |
| 10 | This in turn made it possible to consider changes in language behaviour which occurred during childhood as products of the same mechanisms which had been documented in respect of other kinds of behaviour ; verbal behaviour was to be understood in terms of the same learning principles which had been derived from studies of the behaviour of rats , pigeons and monkeys . |
| 11 | And this in turn made it difficult to maintain profits in the economy as a whole . |
| 12 | So it will not do to say that the reason why the Government found it necessary to curtail debate on the Bill was that they felt that there would be massive opposition to it . |
| 13 | The Government found it necessary to assure Parliament that special arrangements would be devised under which it would be consulted on draft Community legislation before crucial decisions were taken in Brussels . |
| 14 | The church found it hard to enforce chastity within marriage when a pagan man took it for granted that he had the right to sleep with his slavegirls . |
| 15 | Despite the opportunities opened out from the late eighteenth century by an expanding grain trade , a marked increase in the land available , and a steady rise in labour and money dues extracted from the peasantry , the nobility found it difficult to make ends meet . |