Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals . |
| 2 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 3 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 4 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 5 | Although this looked worse than it might have done since it covered fourteen months instead of twelve — the result of an adjustment to a different financial year — such figures demanded a response . |
| 6 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 7 | Charlie 's office was small and poky and lightless and overcrowded , but the number of possible hiding places was limited and it seemed that she-d tried them all . |
| 8 | A child under 10 incurs no criminal liability for its acts ; a child over 9 , but under 14 , incurs no such liability , unless it is shown that it had sufficient capacity to know that its act was wrong . |
| 9 | But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straightforward computer graphics . |
| 10 | The show has failed to appear in any TV popularity charts and eight of the original cast of virtual unknowns have been axed since it began last summer . |
| 11 | Israel had never acknowledged that it possessed nuclear weapons . |
| 12 | The National Gallery must be very satisfied to have concluded as it did last week . |
| 13 | The Ren & Stimpy Show , featuring possibly the most deranged comic duo in years , became an instant cult hit when it appeared last autumn in pilot form on cable channel Nickleodeon . |
| 14 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 15 | At last night 's summit Denmark was also heavily criticised after it demanded further opt-outs before it will sign the agreement . |
| 16 | The Middle East Economic Digest of March 16 described this prediction of a budget surplus as surprising to many observers , but noted that , in the absence of figures for years more recent than 1984 , it could not be determined whether it implied higher income or a sharp reduction in public expenditure . |
| 17 | Aldermaston was chosen as it met these requirements . |