Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More crucially it ran along political lines , i.e. in general it was applied by Labour-controlled local authorities only . |
| 2 | Somehow it seemed safer that way . ’ |
| 3 | ON reporting to Chantilly on the morning of February 25th , Pétain and Serrigny found that ‘ the panic was at its peak ’ The fall of Verdun was expected momentarily , ‘ and everybody was saying that General Herr should be shot ’ Somehow it leaked out that Pétain had come from Paris , not Noailles , and the word was quickly passed round by those veterans of intrigue that he had first been to see the Minister of War , Galliéni , the implacable foe of G.Q.G. Doubtless the rumour helped augment the alarm in the air . |
| 4 | Indeed it made very few references to the Mediterranean initiative unlike the heavy coverage of the Soviet scheme to neutralise the Persian Gulf . |
| 5 | This political opposition involved no ecological critique of mining 's effects : instead it wanted more industrial development , smelters to go with the mines , and major state involvement , if not outright nationalization . |
| 6 | She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time . |