Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It engendered immediate feelings of friendship , of belonging . |
| 2 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 3 | It had always been generous in terms of sick pay and sympathetic and understanding towards employees with family problems , though it expected high standards of dress and deportment and lateness , absenteeism and incivility were not tolerated . |
| 4 | It laid great emphasis on value for money auditing and recommended that all health authorities establish value for money teams whose role would be to effect annual savings which could be used for improving services . |
| 5 | It lacked five days to Christmas , and it might be , with a good wind and a following swell , that they might not have to spend Christmas at Birsay . |
| 6 | Germany , though it produced massive quantities of coal , steel and iron , was still a very backward place . |
| 7 | It might have been a suitable sales pitch for conglomerates shifting Blood Sweat & tears albums ; it produced some qualms amongst It staffers and others . |
| 8 | The Commission 's report was perhaps the turning point , for while it paid respect to the management it found ‘ to be totally dedicated to the railway with a high degree of pride in the service which came before financial reward in importance ’ , it made thought-provoking recommendations about management style and the need to set clearer financial objectives . |
| 9 | Mixed development met the sociological dictates of urbanity and community ; it met the planning critics of inter-war sprawl ; and it met architectural requirements of variety in materials ( concrete , brick , wood , pebbles and strong colours ) . |
| 10 | Both state that it involved 300 denarii of spikenard — the equivalent of perhaps £5,000 today . |
| 11 | By 1871 , Oldham had more cotton-spinning spindles than any country in the world outside the USA and it maintained that position of superiority until 1937 . |
| 12 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |
| 13 | It provided continuous core for analysis and integration with downhole geophysical logs . |
| 14 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 15 | Why the machine had levers at each end was a mystery never satisfactorily explained to the boys , but it created another alley in Grandad 's life , the alley between one machine and another , and though there were no U-boats shooting at him , it was hard going with his bad leg . |
| 16 | Although the anti-Bcl-2 antibody did not label the plasma membrane , we can not exclude the possibility that it labelled other organelles in addition to the nuclear envelope and ER . |
| 17 | The town has many picturesque corners and interesting buildings although it sustained much damage by fire in 1799 when the town was fought over by French , Austrian and Russian armies . |
| 18 | As for the West Midlands , it tried various shades of red , white , blue , and grey and even canary yellow but by the end of 1989 had still not got its formula worked out . |
| 19 | It consumed 25 mpg around town , 46 mpg at 56 mph and 32 mpg at 75 mph . |
| 20 | It was a risky game : played too often , it caused widespread loss of confidence in the currency , hoarding , and commercial bottlenecks . |
| 21 | As a result , it received several offers of help , including one from the mystery blonde accountant who came down to the Sanctuary twice . |
| 22 | As allopurinol did not inhibit the growth of L. casei nor interfere with the growth of experimental tumours , nor did it appear to have any other properties which made it unsuitable , it received further investigation in man . |
| 23 | It distinguished five categories of creation story ( taken from Philip Freund 's useful book Myths of creation ) , and picked out eight characteristics or linked elements that were worth pursuing . |
| 24 | This was the first practical method of producing colour transparencies , and it utilised minute grains of starch from la pomme de terre . |
| 25 | This was the first practical method of producing colour transparencies , and it utilised minute grains of starch from la pomme de terre . |
| 26 | It was in the FA Cup 1st Round tie at The Nest against first division opponents Manchester City and it came five minutes after half-time to put us ahead ; we went on to win 2–0 . |
| 27 | The Bakufu 's position was fatally flawed by its having little economic or political status as a national government : it wielded political power as proxy for the emperor using only the income from its own lands . |
| 28 | ‘ The police seem to think it happened some time after midnight last night . ’ |
| 29 | While it approved some types of drug testing , the Supreme Court did leave the anti-testing forces a glimmer of hope for ultimate legal containment . |
| 30 | It should be realized that this change of tactics in the gilt-edged market is consistent with the objective of greater competitiveness since it allowed greater freedom for market forces to determine prices , and therefore yields , on government stock and close substitutes . |