Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The designation warrior family ( shizoku ) was no more than an indication of family origins although it continued to have social prestige . |
| 2 | The statement emphasised that the Black Sea Fleet , comprising some 45 warships and 300 smaller vessels , was not considered to be part of the strategic forces , although it did have nuclear capability . |
| 3 | This was welcomed by American businessmen , although it helped to disrupt international trade as other countries retaliated by raising their duties . |
| 4 | The very thing for which the bourgeoisie strove , profit , ceased to be an adequate motivation once it had brought sufficient wealth . |
| 5 | As a vanguard , in spite of one or two sensational assassinations , it was not going to get very far unless and until it managed to co-ordinate widespread resistance to the French . |
| 6 | ‘ For myself , ’ Mrs Parvis went on , ‘ I 'd have felt more excited like , if it 'd finished lost summer . |
| 7 | The security aspect was obviously serious : how could the Comrade 's convoy of cars approach the planned government buildings at its usual high speed , if it had to turn sharp corners ? |
| 8 | If it had said solid silver I 'd have been down the h down the s down the high street . |
| 9 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton MP , Scottish Office environment minister , said it would be ‘ additional ’ to the public road building programme and could start by 1992 or 1993 — against a delay until the next century if it had to await public funding . |
| 10 | He had to find all the time he could to write the play , even if it meant neglecting other matters , not least because it would be his first composition since the award of the Nobel Prize . |
| 11 | He added that if Strathclyde PTE did not continue to have the power to assemble a package of services which involved busy services cross-subsidising off-peak ones , the council would have to spend much more money if it wanted to maintain off-peak services . |
| 12 | It 's all a long way from those bit-parts and Lynda 's delighted to be making her mark — even if it did mean changing career . |
| 13 | Furthermore the 1951 French elections had brought a considerable number of Gaullists into the National Assembly who opposed EDC , not so much because it meant arming German soldiers , but because it would ‘ surrender ’ the command of the French Army to a supranational institution . |
| 14 | Considering that NFS version 3 , which was a major re-do , is sitting on a shelf somewhere collecting dust because it failed to garner popular support , there will probably be some reluctance to call this puppy by the same name . |
| 15 | There were times when her preoccupation with ‘ basket power ’ , with the sovereignty of the consumer seemed part of a conception of political change that was both reformist and restricted , not least because it failed to challenge domestic discourses of women 's roles ; but such attention has to be seen in the context of a commitment to conceptions of political radicalisation based on personal development . |
| 16 | For them , the survey embodied the scientific method because it sought to make basic observations of the phenomena of interest and out of this formulate generalisations . |
| 17 | Opren , the anti-arthritis drug , was banned after its large-scale use and Mexico found itself unable to meet its international debts because it had discovered enormous oil resources . |
| 18 | Even this better-than-expected showing , however , does n't do that much for Sun 's margins because it had to promise free MP upgrades . |
| 19 | The aged had , nevertheless , acquired ‘ a definite status in the community … and the ‘ pauper taint ’ [ was ] removed by a system of personal thrift organized by the state' , a provision for which the Conference congratulated itself , claiming to have succeeded because it had placed national interests over and above political tactics . |
| 20 | Control of spending was crucial to the government 's strategy because it wanted to cut governmental borrowing and taxes . |
| 21 | Charles Kingsley and his associates saw the question , Cole records , as a moral issue ; and valued Consumers , Co-operation only because it helped to provide retail outlets for producers ' co-operatives . |
| 22 | While it served to reconcile warring elements in the Conservative party , in the other parties it prevented any such reconciliation . |
| 23 | And much as I coveted a wonderful watercolour by Albert that I came across in an Alice Springs gallery for 4,000 dollars I was even more taken with the traditional native art , particularly since it seemed to offer useful hints about a problem I had of seeing the outback in ways other than through the window-on-the-world vision that developed in Renaissance Italy . |
| 24 | The Israeli delegation rejoined the talks on Nov. 12 after it had received written US assurances that Hallaj 's membership of the PNC had lapsed in 1991 . |
| 25 | One unnamed area was criticised after it appeared to have industrial dereliction and sad , downcast people . |
| 26 | Alex Griffiths , Marks & Spencer 's fish executive , was surprised at the idea that the company might have even contemplated using Billingsgate when it began selling fresh fish nationally four years ago . |
| 27 | When it failed to attract substantial readers , it faced a financial crisis which forced it to curtail some of its journalistic efforts . |
| 28 | Sinful acts are not Bauthumley 's concern as such , but it is not difficult to see why The Light and Dark Sides of God was regarded as a dangerous work when it appeared to undermine Christian certainties : ‘ I have made God mutable as my self . ’ |
| 29 | His table was set out with batches of proof sheets clipped together , the ashtray was full of stubs , and there was a cup half full of coffee which looked as though it had gone cold hours before . |
| 30 | The Bush administration was reluctant to forgive Africa 's debt , even though it had pushed commercial banks towards solving part of the debt problem in Latin America . |