Example sentences of "it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It operated a large tramway system in North-West London , with over three hundred cars . |
| 2 | D&B says it evaluated a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't require SQL programming skills . |
| 3 | To retain its hegemonic dominance it criminalised the inner city uprisings of disenchanted youth , marginalised the youth of the black communities and removed trade-union struggles from the field of civil law to the arena of public disorder . |
| 4 | It succeeded a plain stone building , roughcast and whitewashed , with room for 500 and a general attendance of 400 . |
| 5 | IBM Corp has finally confirmed the elusive story that gained a little currency about a month ago that it planned a massive borrowing spree ( CI No 2,151 ) . |
| 6 | Furthermore , in 1648 it passed a restrictive Blasphemy Act , which threatened those convicted of denying the central tenets of Christianity with death , and those dissenting from orthodox Calvinist theology with imprisonment . |
| 7 | It requested the International Law Commission to prepare a report on which discussions would be based . |
| 8 | When opened , relates David Gieve in his bicentenary history of the famous tailors , it disclosed a small life insurance policy and a charming letter in which he said he wished the proceeds of the policy to be applied to settling his final account , and if there was a surplus he would be glad for Gieves to keep it as a modest token of his gratitude for a lifetime 's service . |
| 9 | It announced a 27 p.c. fall in profits to £28.4m for 1991 but the first quarter of 1992 showed a ‘ significant recovery ’ . |
| 10 | Shares in Grampian , which recently failed in its bid for chemist group Macarthy , fell 9 to 163p yesterday after it announced a 15 p.c. drop in pre-tax profit to £11.2m in a tough year for its retail and sports goods activities . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , it announced a special 6p dividend payment covering the change in the year end . |
| 12 | The fall at drinks and confectionery group Cadbury Schweppes was limited to just 2p to 468p as it announced the much-expected cash call to fund further acquisitions in the US . |
| 13 | Montserrat , part of the British colony of the Leeward Islands from 1871 to 1956 , when it became a separate United Kingdom Dependent Territory , is governed by a Governor , who presides over an Executive Council and a Legislative Council with seven elected , two official and two nominated members . |
| 14 | Neighbours also provided a missing ingredient in our diet of soaps when it became a five-times- a-week fixture back in 1988 . |
| 15 | The beef herd proved the breed 's ability to thrive on modest feeding and to give high killing-out percentages in all age groups , and gradually the beef traits increased in importance until it became a single-purpose beef breed . |
| 16 | It became an essential research tool in the early quest for controlled thermonuclear fusion , helped to clarify the scope of the problem of heating , containing and controlling the deuterium fuel , and set the parameters for the development of the subsequent fusion research programme . |
| 17 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 18 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |
| 19 | At 20 he went to the New Musical Express , and edited it through the 1970s , when it became the bestselling rock mag in Britain , with a rich crop of young writers such as Julie Burchill , Tony Parsons , Danny Baker , Paul Morley and Charles Shaar Murray . |
| 20 | Previously active in the southern department of Cauca , it became the fourth guerrilla group to give up the armed struggle following the example of the M-19 [ see p. 37311 ] , the People 's Liberation Army ( EPL ) and the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) [ see p. 38094 ] , each of which had returned to mainstream politics . |
| 21 | To improve quality it recommended a two-divisional Sunday League , a straight knockout Benson & Hedges competition , and a County Championship programme consisting of 16 three-day and eight four-day matches , the latter to include Sunday play , on uncovered pitches and with bonus points only for bowling . |
| 22 | On Aug. 20 the Moldavian government ruled these secession moves unconstitutional , and two days later it outlawed the Popular Front-style Gagauz Khalky ( People 's ) Movement . |
| 23 | It produced a 13-point action plan to reduce the risk of marine pollution . |
| 24 | This scheme — which was widely adopted by colonial administrations right across the continent — killed two birds with one stone : it both raised money and it produced a large labour force which had previously been occupied with growing food for their families . |
| 25 | The Malayan Emergency was never officially recognised as a ‘ war ’ however it embroiled the hard-pressed Commonwealth forces in what was largely an operation of cunning and wit , pursuing a small , elusive army of bandits in some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world . |
| 26 | It made a pre-tax operating loss of £398m , and restructuring took another £218m for a total pre-tax loss of £616m , up from a loss last time of £124m ; turnover fell 6% to £3,751m ; domestic sales and exports were each off 6% at £1,606m and £2,145m . |
| 27 | It made a hefty restructuring provision , indicating more disposals . |
| 28 | The aircraft was on charter to fly passengers from Norwich to Gothenburg , Sweden , and during the morning of 12 Dec 73 it made an uneventful positioning flight from Oslo , Norway , to Norwich where it landed at 1228 hours . |
| 29 | Stephen said this very seriously but for some reason it made the wedge-faced sergeant guffaw . |
| 30 | Up to this point the only political significance of racism had been that it provided a divided work force for employers . |