Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then one day she found that she was going to have another baby ; she was so wretched that she tried to keep it secret at first . |
| 2 | ‘ Apparently , ’ Conolly continues , ‘ Champagne is to be restored to the position of the rich man 's drink it enjoyed before those wretched own-label chappies started making it available to all ! ’ |
| 3 | The provision of free secondary education did make it possible for many children to get more easily the education they desired . |
| 4 | Etruria had been the world 's most up-to-date factory in the eighteenth century and mining subsidence and the encroachment of other industry had made it unsuitable for modern development . |
| 5 | In Vietnam the loss of a small intelligence network to the Japanese had made it essential for operational purposes that it should be replaced and it is at this point that Ho Chi Minh and the American OSS found each other . |
| 6 | English pragmatism had made it possible for many educational administrators to use an intelligence test in addition to examinations of attainment , as a refinement of their selection process . |
| 7 | Handover of the building only took place a couple of days earlier so many hands had made it possible for Mass to be celebrated in a beautiful setting . |
| 8 | The Labour government of 74–79 had made it compulsory for local education authorities to reorganise secondary schools along comprehensive lines in the 1976 Education Act , but one of the first acts of the Conservative government of 1979 was to repeal this . |
| 9 | The Times of June 8 reported that following the riots the government had granted Belgian nationality to 40,000 immigrants , most of whom came from north Africa , and had made it easier for those born in Belgium of foreign parents to gain citizenship . |
| 10 | Pius XI had made it clear in 1930 , subsequent to the success of the Vatican-Italian Concordat of 1929 , that good sons of the church with political power were to look to the church itself for guidance in their statesmanship : |
| 11 | Katherine had drawn it all with snail-like whorls of her pen , a multitude of curving strokes , so that the landscape had a hectic life of its own , at once like and unlike itself . |
| 12 | The implications of the Black and Tans ' behaviour and of the complicity of the Government in their reign of terror had been clear for some time , but Tubby 's experience had brought it all into sharp focus . |
| 13 | But tonight , although she had left it open on many other nights , it happened to be locked . |
| 14 | It never occurred to me for a moment that she had planned it all in cold blood . ’ |
| 15 | So there was no question but that section 2 of the 1911 Act applied to make it unlawful for any person to communicate information without authorization . |