Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It said nothing about educational or cultural co-operation , it did not do anything to bring EMU nearer ( that was left to the Delors Plan ) and it effectively left foreign policy co-operation in government hands . |
| 2 | Another fishing boat tried to tow the Glenmore back to port in rough seas , but it finally sank ninety miles east of Orkney . |
| 3 | A snorting and savage beast , it promptly ate all Mother Leeds other children and plunged into the New Jersey forest , from whence it emerged regularly to tear clothes hanging out to dry , and trample vegetable gardens . |
| 4 | Stockport Health Authority said yesterday it still rejected all Mr Pink 's claims about conditions in the wards and was pulling out to save money . |
| 5 | Authority chairman Tony Russell said it still rejected all Mr Pink 's claims about conditions in the wards . |
| 6 | It also said difficult trading conditions were continuing to hit housebuilding in Britain but expressed satisfaction over the performance of its Australian mining business . |
| 7 | Beside the address of the waxworks , it also had two phone numbers . |
| 8 | It called for strong winds in order to execute the full range of manoeuvres ; but it also had sufficient lifting power for Don to go on television and demonstrate its use as a crop sprayer , photo-ship or bird scarer ! |
| 9 | It also revealed that Third-World countries spent about US$16,000 million on acquiring new arms in 1989 — less than in any year since 1976 . |
| 10 | It also asked large company clients to make sure that black and Asian lawyers get at least 5% of their work . |
| 11 | It also re-elected Vice Presidents Yi Jong Ok and Pak Song Chol , and determined the composition of the 17-member Central People 's Committee and an 11-member National Defence Commission . |
| 12 | It also conducted two air raids on " terrorist " targets on Feb. 22 and 23 , the first aimed at a pro-Iranian Islamic grouping and the second at the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) . |
| 13 | It also established elected school boards to supervise school building and education . |
| 14 | Though Southern English represented geographically the old West Saxons , it also showed strong Midland influence . |
| 15 | The forefronting of the Doctor Who monsters , in the wake of the Daleks , was a development which pleased Verity Lambert in that it virtually guaranteed constant press interest in the programme . |
| 16 | It tenaciously defied 18th century chemists who struggled to prepare ‘ malleable ’ platinum in useful quantities , hindered by the fact that , although a noble metal , it combines with phosphorus and arsenic and is seldom found without an admixture of related metals . |
| 17 | He is , in fact , a rare surviving embodiment of those long-vanished ideals of the 1950s , when it briefly seemed that University English might provide a terrain where all these practices could converge . |
| 18 | Even at this size it completely outclassed most Rutland villages , quite two-thirds of which had populations of fewer than 150 . |
| 19 | There it evidently found another food supply , animating the material in its excitement as though it were a restless human hand . |
| 20 | But it certainly received massive media coverage . |
| 21 | Bednota was read very rarely in the villages and hardly ever subscribed to , because , as the peasants themselves recounted , it never printed real peasant articles but presented the countryside as some kind of fairyland . |