Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Experiments on the biological effects of radiation were similarly hampered by the problems of measuring the intensity of radiation and the proportion of it absorbed by living tissues . |
2 | January was a month of intense political and diplomatic activity in Hong Kong , much of it related to constitutional developments ahead of the territory 's restoration to China in 1997 . |
3 | Between 1970 and 1984 , Latin America 's foreign debt mushroomed from $21 billion to $360 billion , the bulk of it owed to Western banks . |
4 | Soft toys and medicine , much of it earmarked for specific children , was soiled by smoke , fire and water . |
5 | He sat in shirt-sleeved , patriarchal majesty and his spreading , black waistcoat ( the shiny back of it cracked in long lines ) was strung with an impressive gold watch-chain , of the style favoured by Victorian pit-owners . |
6 | The exhibition includes some delicately-worked gold jewellery , most of it found in Celtic tombs in the past 100 years : typically gold or silver torques , or saddle and bridle decorations of gold , silver , coral and enamel . |
7 | Similarly , the common good ( or rather , that part of it defined by legal rules ) is not taken to be an objective category . |
8 | 1290 in England , and that knowledge of it spread to various centres ’ . |
9 | While some of the clearest evidence for localization of function came from neurological studies on humans with damaged or disturbed brains , some of the best evidence against it came from experimental studies on animals . |