Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heterosexism was a theory that was increasingly attractive to lesbian and gay socialists , but in the mid-1980s it still carried little clout in the lesbian and gay communities as a whole . |
| 2 | Like its predecessors , it attracted attention from many sources , and in the liberal or liberated social climate of the post-war years it probably created more problems than it solved . |
| 3 | As it exercised no rights it also owned 1,100,000 shares following the issue . |
| 4 | While management attention was diverted into new projects it also missed obvious opportunities : the company took decades to figure out that it could sell work-wear as well as party dresses . |
| 5 | In the early Middle Ages it often meant kaleidoscopic change on the political scene but the new pattern ( unlike a kaleidoscope 's ) took some time to form . |
| 6 | And to women it rarely gave any opportunity at all . |