Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , falling into the technocrats ' natural sin , it mistook administrative device for organic substance . |
| 2 | Political anti-semitism attracted mass support for the BUF in a limited geographical area , but it engendered greater hostility within those same localities and had appalling consequences elsewhere . |
| 3 | It sold 2000 copies in 10 days and became fourth in the list of Victorian best-sellers , beaten only by The Bible , Robinson Crusoe and The Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 4 | The proposed shoe factory , for example , would make a return on capital of around 15% if it sold running shoes for 1,000 roubles a pair . |
| 5 | At the same time it recommended enhanced powers for chief executives to arbitrate in sensitive political matters : for example , applying the rules for party balance on committees , determining whether an individual council has a need to inspect a document or attend a meeting , and deciding which chief officers should attend party group meetings . |
| 6 | Furthermore , it gave valuable information about the Permian sequence ; in particular it penetrated 370 ft of Upper Permian salt , and the 1800 ft of lavas and tuffs believed to be Lower Permian . |
| 7 | From predictable corners , it produced predictable calls for sterner measures and greater vigilance against terrorism . |
| 8 | He then began adding back one food per day and when he included instant coffee it produced another bout of severe depression . |
| 9 | It prolonged the life of mice with leukaemia , and it produced dramatic remissions in some leukaemia patients . |
| 10 | The creation of the autonomous region had been opposed by the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNFL ) , the largest of the separatist guerrilla organizations , on the grounds that it made insufficient concessions to Moslem autonomy and failed to meet the terms of the 1976 Tripoli Accord [ see p. 28440 ] . |
| 11 | It made pre-tax profits of 95.3 billion roubles in the year ending on January 1st 1993 ( $141m , at the average exchange rate for 1992 ) . |
| 12 | It made five goals in nine League games for the 29-year-old Scot and earned high praise from Lawrence . |
| 13 | It made good use of two colours and presented a clear financial summary showing how each pound of income was used . |
| 14 | Rather , the fact that it made any headway at all bears witness to the degree to which wide sections of the British public became alarmed by the apparent drift of Chamberlain 's foreign policy . |
| 15 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 16 | Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs . |
| 17 | It involved 14 groups of facial muscles and it releases chemicals to the brain that help combat depression . |
| 18 | It provided unparalleled opportunities for transnational companies manufacturing chemical fertilisers , pesticides , tractors and pump-sets to sell their wares to a vast new market . |
| 19 | It provided year-by-year evidence of prevailing trends in public health . |
| 20 | The particular benefits of this approach for this study were that it provided quantitative data on important treatment/intervention issues in a population where group-comparison studies alone would be inappropriate , because of the individual nature of each person 's challenging behaviour and the small number of potential subjects . |
| 21 | Was the government-supported Remploy , for instance , a good thing because it provided sheltered employment for disabled people , or a bad thing because it ghettoised them ? |
| 22 | The signing of the Free Trade Treaty of 1860 with Britain was as much an act of faith as of policy , for it created great opposition among French industrialists , but the faith was justified in that the economy , deprived of its protective barriers , continued to grow and expand . |
| 23 | Formed by Beamish in 1918 as a patriotic organization dedicated to the eradication of what it termed alien influences in British life , the Britons campaigned for the forced expulsion of Jews from England and for the revoking of the Act of Settlement of 1700 , which would ensure that immigrants and their descendents would be ineligible to hold public office . |
| 24 | And it cost sixty pence in this country to buy , buy a small bar of chocolate . |
| 25 | Prior to its third seminar , in 1980 , it invited five experts from developing countries to study and evaluate a number of development programmes in the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | The Commission imposed a four-year supervision order in August 1990 against the West German company Advanced Nuclear Fuels GmbH for serious violations of safety regulations when it transported 130 kg of enriched uranium through Luxembourg in what purported to be empty containers . |
| 27 | I find that kind of back-door pressure disgraceful and it caused great concern to many people in my local association . |
| 28 | It received Royal Assent on 16 July and comes into force on 16 October . |
| 29 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |
| 30 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |