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 man had never seen it , although it lay only twenty miles to the north . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So much so that we took out insurance er if it went over twenty percent we were covered . |
| 9 | The wall was as transparent as glass , but it was as if it revealed only another wall of uniform greyness . |
| 10 | It looked as if it had only two storeys , but suggested an attic under the fanlight in the roof . |
| 11 | Therefore , it is conceivable that a higher cost drug would be worthwhile , compared to the alternative , if it had much higher effectiveness . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Coun Dennis Howey told the planning committee that if it closed then local butchers and farmers would have to travel to Darlington and York . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 , |
| 16 | And writing it out in a half hour or hour lesson was almost impossible because it took too many sheets of paper . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One had tried using a hand-held scanner for the job but had given up because it made too many mistakes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The BCG matrix was chosen because it had clearly measurable axes for hypothetical examples , which is not the case for the McKinsey-GE matrix . |
| 22 | Broad money was dropped as a target because it gave completely misleading signals during the 1979-81 recession . |
| 23 | It was not , of course , merely the noisome aspect which needed to be dealt with ; Asiatic cholera made its appearance in 19th-century Europe because it found virtually Asiatic conditions in the open sewers and cesspits of the great cities . |
| 24 | The company says that while it expected somewhat lower revenue in the first quarter because of seasonal factors and a product transition to R4000-based systems , the revenue decline was principally down to deferrals in customer orders and licensing activity as a result of the announcement of the proposed merger deal . |
| 25 | Anyone considering the venue a rather incongruous one for startling political imagery and prototype ‘ vehicles ’ for those with and without power in society ( the police on one side , immigrants and the homeless on the other ) , has obviously not got the message the Fundació has aimed to get across since it opened exactly two years ago : that it is not just about Tàpies , but has a wider and more challenging agenda . |
| 26 | THREE and a half thousand people applied to Staffordshire Fire Service after it advertised just 24 vacancies . |
| 27 | Aldershot Town 1992 was set up by fans of the original club when it folded earlier this year with huge financial problems . |
| 28 | The government more or less completed its price deregulation programme on March 1 when it freed most fixed prices for food and daily necessities ; only bread and flour prices remained controlled . |
| 29 | There was outrage when it emerged recently that home care support for severely disabled users of the new Independent Living ( 1993 ) Fund would be capped at £500 . |
| 30 | OLD , NEW , BORROWED , BLUE Fender ‘ 62 Vintage Re-issue This guitar was responsible for a spontaneous ‘ down tools ’ when it arrived here last week . |