Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 3 | Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch . |
| 4 | and it left three halves of the residual estate . |
| 5 | This was the first practical method of producing colour transparencies , and it utilised minute grains of starch from la pomme de terre . |
| 6 | This was the first practical method of producing colour transparencies , and it utilised minute grains of starch from la pomme de terre . |
| 7 | William Boyd 's excellent survey of evacuation in Scotland showed that out of sixty-eight questionnaire returns giving details of journeys in the first wave , fully one-third spoke of their evacuees not arriving at their destinations until 5 p.m. or later ; and it included graphic descriptions of such journeys , including the testimony of one teacher evacuated from Glasgow to Aberdeenshire , whose journey was : |
| 8 | He thus technically became an Argentine citizen , and it needed eight years of negotiation between the two countries to relieve him of his obligation to do military service in Argentina . |
| 9 | When Geevor mine announced 300 layoffs , the CAB was ready to move in , and it held four days of emergency advice sessions at the mine . |