Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belgium , he remarked , was a state addicted to backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning , where it took 100 days just to form a government . |
| 2 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 3 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 4 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 5 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ? |
| 6 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 7 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 8 | But we could n't go ashore until it got better ad then we went round the cape after and down into Aberdeen see . |
| 9 | Whatever may have been said in the 1930s — even if it reflected current views then — cannot be correct today . |
| 10 | That 's if it had any sockets upstairs ! |
| 11 | Thus new furniture would be defective if it contained live woodworm even though the presence of the woodworm posed no threat of personal injury . |
| 12 | As well as being practical , the end result will look as if it cost many times as much . |
| 13 | The Commissioners answers came in the form of a set of proposals which represented the most fundamental reshaping of the common Agricultural policy since it began 30 years ago . |
| 14 | This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Announcing its decision , the Department of Environment said it had responded to three main criticisms : i ) the register would have listed all potential , not necessarily actual , contaminated sites , since it included all locations where specified industries had been sited ; ii ) sites would not be removed from the register , even if after clean-up ; iii ) there was no specific provision for determining who should bear the liability , and the costs , of the clean-up . |
| 17 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |
| 18 | It 's the latest setback for Euro Disney which has been losing money since it opened eighteen months ago . |
| 19 | Since it opened 2 years ago , 7 deaths have been attributed to driver fatigue . |
| 20 | Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago . |
| 21 | The Irish national lottery has created 19 millionaires since it started five years ago . |
| 22 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |
| 23 | The business has changed dramatically since it joined six years ago . |
| 24 | Since it arrived four days ago , every last word was beaten into her brain . |
| 25 | ‘ She 's been in a coma since it happened six weeks ago . ’ |
| 26 | Ian Hollingsbee worked at the hospital before it closed 4 years ago . |
| 27 | When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name . |
| 28 | Well they did n't know and they to it were towing Julie 's car and the tow belt snapped , and of course when it jerked this car forward it cut the petrol off . |
| 29 | He dispatched a police patrol car , but when it arrived 16 minutes later the telephone was swinging on the end of its cord . |
| 30 | Conversely , Habitat flew in the face of expert opinion when it introduced pack-flat furniture on to the American market . |