Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He really must get back to the library and see if it had any more books on the subject . |
| 2 | ‘ It would be gratifying if it held some more revelations , but perhaps that would be too much to hope for . |
| 3 | Swessex , a bastard county created by the iniquitous reorganization of local government in the early ‘ seventies , comprised one and a half old counties knocked together because it looked neater that way . |
| 4 | After the war , ‘ unfilled ’ vinyl was used because it had much less surface noise , and a few sets of unfilled vinyl 78s were made for early hi-fi buffs . |
| 5 | Nor did it believe in hopes expressed by Saudi Arabia that the six countries involved could become militarily self-sufficient , since it characterised all these states as ‘ military clients of Western states ’ . |
| 6 | In 1891 Salt published a pamphlet on Humanitarianism , a subject on which he frequently lectured , since it embraced all those matters about which he held strong opinions . |
| 7 | She was on the verge of ignoring the summons , on the reasonable assumption that the visitor had pressed the wrong buzzer , when it sounded several more times . |
| 8 | THE Alliance Party scored six of the best when it added two more councillors to its group of four on Ards Council . |
| 9 | The news was predominantly heartening , as it became plain that investigation of endothelin action is entering a new phase with characterization of the receptors concerned and the advent of selective , potent and orally active receptor antagonists . |