Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Greece 's have become a lot worse than most other people 's because of a couple of things those centuries it spent under Ottoman rule did to it . |
| 2 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 3 | I believe in the case of these baths it took about one man year to do that transformation . |
| 4 | He was making a careful examination of the bowls and plates it contained in dusty confusion . |
| 5 | These examples suggest that while antislavery could not become an explicit test of membership of chapel communities it did in many cases become a norm of memberships and of a minister 's identity . |
| 6 | This was the aspiration of increasing numbers of provincial antislavery militants ; how closely they approximated their aim and what tensions it provoked with parliamentary abolitionists , especially Buxton , can be observed in part through examining the use of the delegate conference or convention . |
| 7 | Among other matters it dealt with lay control of monasteries , excesses of dress among churchmen , and the immorality and drunkenness of Anglo-Saxon clergy , and ordered the holding of diocesan synods to implement the decrees of the council . |
| 8 | By the following morning Mr Reynolds was apyrexial and although his temperature was recorded every four hours for the next five days it remained within normal limits . |
| 9 | Michael Russell , the party 's vice-convener for publicity , accused Labour of selling out on all the promises it made to Scottish voters at the last election . |
| 10 | With bank interest over the years it amounted to some £320,000-certainly enough to meet the Ingard cheque . |
| 11 | Polgar resolved to do the same , although for years it resulted in severe poverty . |
| 12 | Accordingly , the Agricultural Training Board , like similar organisations , needed to consider the priorities it gave in these areas . |
| 13 | If free-market conditions had generally prevailed , and if the BEA had got all the investment resources it required at low interest rates , this conclusion would be unassailable . |
| 14 | Thus the death of Catherine I of Russia in 1727 and the changes it produced in Russian policy in the Baltic brought about a reconciliation with Britain after a long period of antagonism ; the death in 1762 of the Empress Elizabeth meant Russia 's immediate withdrawal from the Seven Years War ; and the accession to the throne of Frederick II was an essential preliminary to the Prussian attack on Silesia in 1740 . |
| 15 | A ham came next ; after some frenzied bidding at the lower prices it climbed to thirteen guineas , then to fourteen where it seemed likely to stay until at the very last moment , a cautious male voice offered fifteen guineas . |
| 16 | He got a lot of Mr. Andrew 's money , too — I know a lot more than people think I do — and instead of being put aside for new ships it went into silly things like this grand building and I daresay for fat salaries for some people . |
| 17 | Although on average it cropped up only once an hour , there appeared to be semantic restrictions on the type of verb with which it occurred ; in the majority of cases it occurred with dynamic verbs of activity , the most frequent being do , make , finish , write . |
| 18 | For the college , the experience of developing and mounting the course has been a beneficial one , although at times it felt like self-inflicted punishment ! |
| 19 | The 9.96 seconds it took for 32-year-old Linford to grab gold in Barcelona crowned a glittering career . |
| 20 | When the case was heard before Worthing magistrates it ended on 15 November with the assault charges being dismissed but Mosley , Joyce , Budd and Mullan were committed to Lewes Assizes on charges of riotous assembly . |
| 21 | The Forest law was universally hated because of the penalties and restrictions it imposed on all classes of the king 's subjects . |
| 22 | For the first miles it led through thick rain forest before climbing along the flank of a long narrowing valley up into the pine-clad highlands . |