Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice it made very little difference whether an actor , writer or director accused of being tainted with Communism claimed the right to be silent or not . |
| 2 | In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners . |
| 3 | The membership of SDS grew rapidly from about 4000 in 1965 to some 100,000 three years later , and throughout this period it had much larger numbers of supporters who identified themselves in some way with ‘ the Movement ’ . |
| 4 | The following day it froze as icy winds swept the country . |
| 5 | It could oversee the substantial new academic development but it could not determine the shape of the sector of higher education it performed only one part in developing . |
| 6 | At its foundation it employed only eight officials ; and this number did not increase much for the next half-century . |
| 7 | Pitching : on one wild and windy night it took just five minutes to put up the inner . |
| 8 | At birth it weighed about 40 kilos . |
| 9 | Although the 1935 general election confirmed its position as the only main challenger for the left-wing vote , in that election it secured only 154 MPs — less than a quarter of the total membership of the Commons . |
| 10 | When , at its first meeting in 1831 , the British Association called for a report on the state of mathematics it elicited only three sections , on algebra , trigonometry and the arithmetic of sines , which almost completely ignored the major developments of the previous century and a half . |
| 11 | In fact it allowed very few off-worlders on to the planet , and they were mostly technicians with special skills — who were required to live restricted lives in special compounds , hardly ever mixing with the local population . |