Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [vb past] [art] [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 And it had the most money of its own to spend on the election campaign , though unlike many of the other parties it got no western aid .
3 In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted .
4 For many women in coal communities it provided the only wage labour available to them , and for the first time it provided wages for the work they 'd always done .
5 Fisher wrote a kind letter to Ramsey , who found that in the circumstances it showed a generous spirit .
6 For Christians it defined a national identity from which they were excluded .
7 Ineffectual or not against lingering gases it seemed a wise precaution , even if it was only psychological .
8 Replying formally on April 5 , the Supreme Council repeated the call for immediate negotiations , but in conciliatory statements it acknowledged the Soviet leadership 's concern at events in Lithuania , and stressed that it did not seek to sever economic relations and " cultural and human ties " with the Soviet Union .
9 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 .
10 The emphatic denigration contained in this locational insult had to be heard to be understood , and in many ways it paralleled the dismissive tone used to deride the ‘ civvy ’ , for nuances of speech and tone have immense meaning to insiders .
11 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 .
12 In most regions , the assassination tended to unite the badly fragmented Congress Party , but in a few regions it had the opposite result , which caused that party to gain less ground in those states ) .
13 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 .
14 Very pale with very large bubbles it had a harsh aftertaste and was generally quite disappointing .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Constructed of main braced girders it carried a double rail and road track with a footpath along either side .
19 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 .
20 Unlike the banned groups it had a large membership and was represented in several state legislatures .
21 He went on : ’ when comparing Kent with 13 southern counties it had the lowest number of school leavers with five GCSEs grade A to C the second highest number of pupils leaving with no qualifications , the 12th lowest number staying on at 16 . ’
22 With others it brought a violent distress of spirit often visible on faces for days on end .
23 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 .
24 His face was flaky in some places , the texture of dried glue , while in others it bore the pin-prick traces of acne .
25 For others it provided a safe environment in which they could recognise the insecurities that were messing up their lives .
26 But although his mind was detached from day-to-day events it brooded a good deal on longer-term considerations .
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