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 Very pale with very large bubbles it had a harsh aftertaste and was generally quite disappointing .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Constructed of main braced girders it carried a double rail and road track with a footpath along either side .
13 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 .
14 Unlike the banned groups it had a large membership and was represented in several state legislatures .
15 With others it brought a violent distress of spirit often visible on faces for days on end .
16 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 .
17 For others it provided a safe environment in which they could recognise the insecurities that were messing up their lives .
18 But although his mind was detached from day-to-day events it brooded a good deal on longer-term considerations .
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