Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals . |
| 2 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 3 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
| 4 | The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century . |
| 5 | And it had other things going for it too . |
| 6 | Its deliberations had been hurried , its request for evidence stressed the need for a brevity viewed by many as excessive and it lacked sufficient resources to produce a credible alternative to any Government proposals . |
| 7 | In 1906 a herdbook for the ‘ race rouge flamande ’ was opened , with members all over West Flanders , and it included red animals found to the north of the main breeding zone as well : only external appearances were taken into account until 1920 , when a breed society was formed . |