Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | From the post-war years until the mid-1960s it had experienced steady decline . |
2 | In the old days it had taken six horses to haul a vehicle the two thousand yards from the bottom of the brae to its top . |
3 | If , at first , his rule had appeared to be to the benefit of France , in the last years it had suffered considerable setbacks . |
4 | A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges . |
5 | The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million . |
6 | A jeep stopped just outside Brigade H.Q The two stretchers it carried contained two bodies , each wrapped tightly in an Army blanket . |
7 | Turning to coal instead , the higher temperatures it achieved enabled English glass makers to develop an intrinsically stronger product . |