Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was really said on that occasion is not on record but Wilberforce had just written a long review of Darwin 's book in the Quarterly Review and from this it seems clear that the good Bishop was by no means the fundamentalist reactionary which he is commonly supposed to have been . |
| 2 | The administration was always poor and in 1991 it became chaotic . |
| 3 | The entire cycle of wealth and waste , consumption and status buying , accompanied by the deep roar of the capitalist engine turning over ever faster , needed a name by which to handle its concepts and in 1957 it got one . |
| 4 | We can see from the annual average figures that sterling 's effective exchange rate has fallen since 1975 ( 1975 = 100 ) and in 1987 it averaged 72.6 — depreciation of 27 per cent . |
| 5 | The government 's budgetary deficit went up six- or seven-fold , its ability to back paper money with gold went down by more than 50 per cent , and in 1856 it spent 84 per cent of its income on debt repayments and the armed forces , but the private sector suffered less severely than the Treasury and people who engaged in industry or commerce positively benefited . |
| 6 | After the First World War the Midland continued to expand by opening branches , and by 1939 it had 2,100 . |
| 7 | A recent government survey showed that while in 1961 only 57 per cent of the total workforce in full-time employment was covered , the proportion increased to 73 per cent in 1970 and by 1974 it reached 80 per cent of men and 78 per cent of women in full-time employment . |