Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Assistance Act seemed to turn its back on this doctrines yet it failed to jettison the view entirely and it failed to provide financial resources sufficient to enable the Board to avoid having to distinguish between the claims made by applicants , particularly as regards their more unusual needs . |
| 2 | At one time , the Hang Seng Index was down 116 points , but it recovered to close 98 points lower at 4,827 . |
| 3 | Thursday dawned bright and blue and it decided to stay that way all day through . |
| 4 | In late May the FBI admitted that it had questioned thirty-one year old Brian M. McDevitt in connection with the theft , in which two robbers cut such masterpieces as Vermeer 's ‘ The concert ’ and Rembrandt 's ‘ The storm on the Sea of Galilee ’ from their frames . |
| 5 | However , the government demanded a five-year grace period before paying into the UN-supervised compensation fund for Kuwaiti victims of Iraq 's occupation and the ensuing war , on the grounds that it had to meet domestic needs first , including the US$194,000 million cost of reconstruction . |