Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brass work was cast in the brass foundry , and from there it was sent to the brass finishing shop for machining and cleaning up , afterwards traversing the plating department where it received either venetian bronze , oxidised silver or plain brass lacquer finish , next passing to position No 3 for fixing in the carriage . |
| 2 | The enormity of this lie was so great that its ripples did in fact spread out one of the lower astral planes as far as the Magical Quarter across the river , where it picked up tremendous velocity from the huge standing wave of power that always hovered there and bounced wildly across the Circle Sea . |
| 3 | The man had never seen it , although it lay only twenty miles to the north . |
| 4 | The decree also declared that the union and republican governments should investigate ways of transforming inefficient collective and state farms into private or co-operative farms , although it ruled out compulsory dissolution . |
| 5 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 6 | However , it is possible that the ratio of hidden to known use provided by Method 4 is nearer to the true ratio than the others because , although it involved less accurate determination of identity codes , the larger numbers of nominees involved may dilute the effect of extreme cases . |
| 7 | Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago . |
| 8 | He says he would never have been able to have afforded it himself , so it opened up another world . |
| 9 | Desperately needing to justify her own actions , minimise her behaviour , she thought it all through again from the beginning until it made even less sense than it had before . |
| 10 | The iceberg was 155 km long until it broke up last year . |
| 11 | He was an engineer and erm he he was he made co , he worked on conveyers and things and then he changed his occupation became a civil servant and he worked at the Admiralty down on Templefields until it closed about ten years , cos my husband has been retired about five years now . |
| 12 | So much so that we took out insurance er if it went over twenty percent we were covered . |
| 13 | The Viennese piano is often discussed as if it developed along one path , as if each improvement followed the previous one in an orderly fashion . |
| 14 | The wall was as transparent as glass , but it was as if it revealed only another wall of uniform greyness . |
| 15 | It looked as if it had only two storeys , but suggested an attic under the fanlight in the roof . |
| 16 | Therefore , it is conceivable that a higher cost drug would be worthwhile , compared to the alternative , if it had much higher effectiveness . |
| 17 | If it happened more this time , it may simply be that , with a higher-than-average turnout ( sunny weather , and so on ) , more people who normally would n't have bothered to vote , did so — and such half-hearted democrats are precisely the ones unlikely to have filled in the form . |
| 18 | Coun Dennis Howey told the planning committee that if it closed then local butchers and farmers would have to travel to Darlington and York . |
| 19 | To accept the truth of these accounts is a simple but giant step , and one which the academic and professional community is by its own self-definition incapable of taking : a social group which bases its very existence on its own claims to cleverness would risk its life if it opened even one ear to the voices of fools and heretics , especially when the topic itself is about foolishness in the form of ‘ learning difficulties ’ . |
| 20 | but it could n't of been cos it came out last week |
| 21 | That is to say , a system could not be cognisant unless it appreciated how intentional changes in its perceptions were constrained by reality . |
| 22 | Yeah , yeah , yeah , the thing was , because it left about fifteen minutes later , at a quarter past eight , there was so much difference in traffic , |
| 23 | And writing it out in a half hour or hour lesson was almost impossible because it took too many sheets of paper . |
| 24 | Emil himself and Oliver delivered the necessary , although Emil on his return said he hoped this was n't going to happen at lunch and dinner also , because it took too much time . |
| 25 | Like Heatfest the survey was also unique because it brought together active tenants groups in both Glasgow , Edinburgh and London and a range of professionals — from Edinburgh University , Strathclyde University and the Glasgow Community Health Resource Unit . |
| 26 | One had tried using a hand-held scanner for the job but had given up because it made too many mistakes . |
| 27 | This " self-determination " speech , as it became known , was probably the most important that he delivered during the Algerian conflict — not because it expressed radically new ideas , but because it expressed openly and in concrete terms what had hitherto been implicit . |
| 28 | The BCG matrix was chosen because it had clearly measurable axes for hypothetical examples , which is not the case for the McKinsey-GE matrix . |
| 29 | The development was the ‘ most exciting discovery of the last decade ’ because it opened up new treatment avenues . |
| 30 | Broad money was dropped as a target because it gave completely misleading signals during the 1979-81 recession . |