Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made one manufacturing company re-order its priorities substantially . |
| 2 | ‘ Briefly , it described systematic state child abuse , ’ said Mr Fenton . |
| 3 | It described extravagant Easter egg packaging as ‘ a gimmick which has nothing to do with protecting the contents , let alone Easter ’ . |
| 4 | It brought closer Home Office control and local authority subsidy to reformatories for children for whom the first resort of probation had either failed or was thought inappropriate . |
| 5 | If we go on to books erm , I think that Longman performance is exceptionally good erm , of course for book business it 's very much first half , second half , most of the profit coming in second half , but er , erm , Longman only dropping seven percent on the year before seems to me a particularly good performance given the environment and in fact it generated more operating cash flow than the year before . |
| 6 | Sandvik broke new woodworking ground when it introduced that Sandvik XT range of saws last year . |
| 7 | In the week before the start of the congress it emerged that party ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev was canvassing support among the party leaderships in several republics and in Moscow and Leningrad for postponing the congress until the autumn . |