Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1920 it was appreciated that the Great War had brought about many changes , particularly in Europe and around the Mediterranean area ; Europe 's domination of the world had been weakened , and there was a marked decline in ‘ colonisation ’ , as well as a gradual change from ‘ British Empire ’ to ‘ British Commonwealth ’ , although it took another war to finalise that process . |
| 2 | By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy . |
| 3 | In 1976 the Layfield Report , Local Government Finance , suggested that a local income tax should supplement the rates , although it listed many difficulties associated with such a venture . |
| 4 | Although it required official sanction to perform intersexing , Roirbak doubted whether Jahsaxa was careless enough not to have seen to that . |
| 5 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 6 | Outside , the Chelsea Pensioner pub would have have been doing good business if it had any drinks to sell , but it was purely decorative ; part of garden by Hereford Wyevale Garden Centre called the outer sanctum which won a silver-gilt medal . |
| 7 | Ductal cannulation was rated as ‘ easy ’ if cannulation could be achieved immediately , and as ‘ difficult ’ if it required repeated attempts leading to obvious trauma to the papilla . |
| 8 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 9 | The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks . |
| 10 | They 'd spent part of the morning carrying boxes of some sort from one hut to another , apparently fairly heavy boxes , because it took both men to carry them . |
| 11 | But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straightforward computer graphics . |
| 12 | And the central government 's socialism , it 's restriction of socialist rights to Libyan nationals , set the seal on the discrimination between foreign and national labour because it encouraged Libyan employers to employ foreigners . |
| 13 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 14 | Many of the ordinary Panamanians who gave the general such a stinging defeat in May 's annulled elections were astonished that the US allowed the coup to collapse when it had 12,000 troops stationed around the canal . |
| 15 | The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists . |
| 16 | Fernando would n't like that and she wanted to please him , not anger him , though it took some doing getting his anger up . |
| 17 | I could see it running in her until it overflowed , and as fast as it ran more grief took its place until the lane and the streams ran with grief and all the valley was the colour of grief . |
| 18 | the argument was continuous and as it developed both sides changed their positions . |
| 19 | As it happened American efforts to restrict Japanese expansion precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 . |
| 20 | Er so as it happened this girl had got the material erm a wild silk cream and er Elizabeth made up this dress for her of course er Michael Caine 's daughter i is quite a busty girl , you know |
| 21 | As it happened this period coincided with the arrival in Vancouver of Andrew Allan , later one of Canada 's all time great producers , and he was accompanied by his ‘ unofficial fiancee ’ that talented actress Judith Evelyn . |
| 22 | As it floated some plants became caught in the wood and the roots inbeded themselves and began to grow there . |
| 23 | Even so , the campaign was not entirely counter-productive , as it compelled senior management to recognize that the long history of conflictual , low-trust industrial relations necessitated a gradual , processual approach to modifying company culture rather than structural reorganization alone . |
| 24 | The government 's overture to the NPA was of particular significance , for it undermined consistent government claims that popular support for the 21-year guerrilla struggle was dwindling . |
| 25 | The development of coloured carp appealed to the oriental penchant for patience and order , for it took many generations to produce recognisable bloodlines of Kohaku , Sanke or Showa . |