Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was really said on that occasion is not on record but Wilberforce had just written a long review of Darwin 's book in the Quarterly Review and from this it seems clear that the good Bishop was by no means the fundamentalist reactionary which he is commonly supposed to have been . |
| 2 | The administration was always poor and in 1991 it became chaotic . |
| 3 | The entire cycle of wealth and waste , consumption and status buying , accompanied by the deep roar of the capitalist engine turning over ever faster , needed a name by which to handle its concepts and in 1957 it got one . |
| 4 | We can see from the annual average figures that sterling 's effective exchange rate has fallen since 1975 ( 1975 = 100 ) and in 1987 it averaged 72.6 — depreciation of 27 per cent . |
| 5 | The government 's budgetary deficit went up six- or seven-fold , its ability to back paper money with gold went down by more than 50 per cent , and in 1856 it spent 84 per cent of its income on debt repayments and the armed forces , but the private sector suffered less severely than the Treasury and people who engaged in industry or commerce positively benefited . |
| 6 | After the First World War the Midland continued to expand by opening branches , and by 1939 it had 2,100 . |
| 7 | A recent government survey showed that while in 1961 only 57 per cent of the total workforce in full-time employment was covered , the proportion increased to 73 per cent in 1970 and by 1974 it reached 80 per cent of men and 78 per cent of women in full-time employment . |
| 8 | Thus the courts were clearly subservient to the commands of the Communist Party , although it should be noted that the degree of independence available to the courts has varied over time : in the 1930s it was minimal , but after 1956 it became greater . |
| 9 | The underlying reasons for this will be considered more fully below but in general it seems clear that large , volume production industries were characterised by low throughput per worker because of over-manning and insufficient intensity of capital use [ Bacon and Eltis , 1974 ; Pratten , 1971 , 1976a ] . |
| 10 | Its original membership only included those hiring tools and equipment , but in 1980 it created two new divisions which allowed companies hiring catering and audio visual equipment to join . |
| 11 | In Whitehall , Smith was pleased with the progressing organisation built up by Verity , but in 1949 it became clearer that the bottlenecks were not only on site steel but in the inadequate response of the pipework and boiler manufacturers . |
| 12 | Up to this time , the Trinity Association which was called ‘ The Corporation of the Shipmasters of the Trinity House of Leith ’ had been a charitable institution but in 1797 it developed those functions with which it was to become chiefly associated , that of examining and licensing Pilots . |
| 13 | It was low in numbers a century ago , when the Piedmonts of Italy were being imported for beef and good red milking cows came from Bergamo , but by 1979 it numbered 150,000 and is now a well-established milk and meat breed in France , though almost extinct in Italy , where it is known as the Tarina . |