Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was indeed hierarchical : both in theory and practice it made a great difference where a man was born . |
| 2 | In practice it involved an enormous amount of administration also . |
| 3 | Needless to say , being a Finnish car it had a left-hand drive . |
| 4 | The area had been on the periphery of the Kandyan Kingdom , and in the early years of British rule it remained an impoverished backwater . |
| 5 | The incidence of this higher rate of tax — totalling , inclusive of the loan , 25 per cent — is therefore misleading ; in effect it acknowledged the superior position of £40 men while seeking to evade the full implications . |
| 6 | It acquired and developed the original photocopier technology and in its heyday it had a virtual monopoly and made huge profits . |
| 7 | In the split second it took the cursing Jube to work the action and fire , his target was no longer there . |
| 8 | Because of the translucent water and the high , rocky , almost petrified appearance of the cave 's formation it added a mysterious uniqueness to the beautiful strains of the music . |
| 9 | Like Malvern Mill it had an overshot wheel , of 12 feet in diameter , and although this no longer exists , traces of the machinery do . |
| 10 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 11 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 12 | In the Zurvanite heresy it became the supreme deity . |
| 13 | The canal was never a commercial success , though it was made deeper after Telford 's death , but it is still open , and in the First World War it served the strategic purpose for which it had not been needed during the Napoleonic Wars : 70,000 mines were shipped through it , mainly by the U.S. Navy , to protect Allied merchant shipping against German U-boats . |
| 14 | If this was Richard 's first experience of war it bore an ironical similarity to his last . |
| 15 | Unfortunately you chose the ginger beetle , the toffee beetle or something of the sort it had a gingery look to it . |
| 16 | For Delaunay it was the interaction of colours which produced a sense of form and space in a picture , whereas for Léger it meant the simultaneous presence in a painting of the three pictorial elements of line , form and colour , all used in a system of deliberate contrasts . |
| 17 | The study of bacteria was to provide biology with an enormously useful approach to the nature of life , but at this period it raised no theoretical questions which the most conventional scientist would not immediately recognise . |
| 18 | Sainte-Engrâce was until very recently a remote settlement , because the road into the valley was also the only road out ; as a consequence it had a fine tradition for smuggling , since the last thing Basque smugglers ever wanted was good roads along which they might be pursued by excise men far less agile or locally knowledgeable than themselves . |
| 19 | obviously it was no good he , you could smoke like a chimney it made no damn difference the state his insides were |
| 20 | As befitted such a gift it represented a rich accumulation of the past from several sources . |
| 21 | Since our silver wedding anniversary was the following day it seemed an ideal way to celebrate , so my wife and I decided to go . |
| 22 | At the top it included the wealthiest landowners and industrialists in the land , such as Edward A. Guinness , brewer , who died in 1927 and left £13.5 million and Sir John R. Ellerman , shipowner and financier , who died in 1933 leaving £36.7 million . |
| 23 | Mr Johnson told the court it landed the Financial Times with a phone bill of £705 . |
| 24 | To celebrate the event it launched an annual competition , Le Trophée des Mères Cuisinières , held in Vichy . |
| 25 | The origins of this ancient structure are lost in antiquity : according to legend it replaced a fifth-century fortress occupied by Uther Pendragon , a man of great influence and supposedly the father of King Arthur . |
| 26 | But when she resisted the charms of Hollywood 's legendary romeo it hit an all-time low . |
| 27 | Since Satyagraha ( 1980 ) was in Sanskrit it posed a different set of problems for the singer than Einstein in which there were no words at all ( other than spoken monologues ) , the text being composed of numbers and solfege syllables ( do , re , mi etc ) . |
| 28 | On the surface it seemed a reasonable explanation . |
| 29 | On at least one occasion it infiltrated a double agent of its own into SOE who betrayed some 400 British and French agents to the Germans . |
| 30 | Oh there had , had er it h erm had a marvellous water supply and it had a good sewage it had a good sewage disposal system . |