Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was urged into the air again , kicking out with its back legs , seeming to hang there motionless , and then on hind legs it walked several steps forwards . |
| 2 | The more mischievous may suggest that , as an exercise in the once-discredited art of nationalisation , it was a huge success ; but as an attempt to apply market forces to public services it made little difference . |
| 3 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 4 | Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs . |
| 5 | The reason : The provincial government paid Mount Providence , operated by Roman Catholic nuns , 75 Canadian cents a day each for the care of orphans — for mentally retarded children it paid 2.75 dollars . |
| 6 | In recent weeks it sold one Ford franchise for £8m and bought another for £6m . |
| 7 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |