Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together with the popular demonology associated in the public mind with these strange monsters called computers it produced a sudden upsurge of anxiety . |
| 2 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 3 | Fisher wrote a kind letter to Ramsey , who found that in the circumstances it showed a generous spirit . |
| 4 | For Christians it defined a national identity from which they were excluded . |
| 5 | Ineffectual or not against lingering gases it seemed a wise precaution , even if it was only psychological . |
| 6 | Shortly after this he was attacked by a Bf110 , but as this approached to about 100 yards it received a direct hit from an anti-aircraft shell and blew up . |
| 7 | In some ways it resembled a flying fox , common throughout Malaysia ; in some ways it resembled a rat , but its easy flight and way of walking proclaimed it a bird . |
| 8 | Baldersdale was far too remote for any of the gentry to be interested in building a country residence there All the more accessible dales had their halls , manors and castles , but the high moors sweeping up to 1,500 feet above the valley of Baldersdale was the habitat of a creature which every aristocrat , and many wealthy merchants and other nouveau riche with aristocratic pretensions pursued , then and now , with fanatical zeal — Lagopus scoticus , feathered-footed member of the Tetraonidae family , otherwise known as the red grouse For the locals it meant an extra cash crop during the days following the Glorious Twelfth — the shillings and sovereigns tossed , somewhat disdainfully , at them for providing a back-up service , such as beating the heather to alarm the birds into the air and towards the buckshot , or placing their horses and wagons at the disposal of their lordships so that ammunition , lunch and the essential bottles of whisky could be transported to the guns and the day 's bag of slain birds brought safely to the all-important count . |
| 9 | Very pale with very large bubbles it had a harsh aftertaste and was generally quite disappointing . |
| 10 | A period of decline was experienced by Chiswick House through the Crimean War also the Great War of 1914 to 1918 , and after a succession of occupants it became a private asylum for the mentally ill . |
| 11 | I 've used this one in the studio and I 've heard it used live , and in both instances it made a positive contribution to the sound . |
| 12 | Where the skin stretched taut along his cheekbones it held a faint flush of colour after the day out , the disfiguring bitterness in the blue eyes hidden for the moment behind closed , black-fringed lids . |
| 13 | Constructed of main braced girders it carried a double rail and road track with a footpath along either side . |
| 14 | One day , a tenant went out to work and found a hole in his garden ; hours later it was even bigger , and within yet more hours it became a twenty-foot pit . |
| 15 | Unlike the banned groups it had a large membership and was represented in several state legislatures . |
| 16 | With others it brought a violent distress of spirit often visible on faces for days on end . |
| 17 | For yet others it implied a radical ideal of RBL as the context of thematic or topic-based project work which characterises a whole new concept of teaching . |
| 18 | For others it provided a safe environment in which they could recognise the insecurities that were messing up their lives . |
| 19 | But although his mind was detached from day-to-day events it brooded a good deal on longer-term considerations . |