Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Okapi was certainly easy to use and most people found that it needed minimal learning and relearning .
2 Several years ago , miso came under fire from researchers who claimed that it caused high blood-pressure , then Japan 's number-one killer .
3 Six countries bordering the Black Sea — Bulgaria , Georgia , Romania , Russia , Turkey and the Ukraine — have agreed on a three year programme to tackle pollution of its waters , after an international scientific group warned that it faced ecological death unless urgent measures were taken .
4 These industrialists welcomed foreign capital , because they felt that it stimulated economic activity in general , from which they could all benefit ( Petras and Cook 1973 ) .
5 " Actual " seems to mean " more than trivial " though Taylor v Granville [ 1978 ] Crim LR 482 said that it covered any harm , however slight .
6 The Labour party said that it wanted some mechanism other than discounts ; that it would deal with pensioners with what it called a single pensioner premium .
7 Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ .
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