Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a well set out machine and using it became second nature after just a couple of hours . |
| 2 | Zenith also said it sold 500,000 shares of newly issued common to institutional investors for whom Crabbe Huson Co of Portland , Oregon serves as investment advisor . |
| 3 | But it produced critical evidence about how different designs of tax would hit marginal seats and heartland Tory ones . |
| 4 | We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going . |
| 5 | It provided simple answers to seemingly intractable questions . |
| 6 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 7 | The tap could be regulated so that the water flowing from it filled another tank in exactly twenty-four hours , while raising a float inside the tank a fixed distance . |
| 8 | It enrolled less than 50 members but it attracted active support from up to 2,000 sympathizers . |
| 9 | Another criticism of the Leeds adjournment system was that it added further stress to socially disadvantaged people already living under stressful conditions . |
| 10 | DEC says it delayed any announcement until now so there would be meat on the bones , not just promises . |
| 11 | Erm well it happened some time between about two and six |
| 12 | This has its origin in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Japan realised it needed natural resources from overseas in order to industrialise effectively to compete with the West . |
| 13 | In 1891 the Review of the Churches began publication and it included representative editors from not only Nonconformity but from the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England . |
| 14 | In the case of the News International ban it offered clear guidance on how the professional should react . |
| 15 | It took several layers of slightly thinned fold acrylic paint to get the effect I wanted , then , as the final touch , I worked over the parts I have previously painted red , now visible only as a dull tonal value within the fold , using well thinned films of the different pearlescent colours . |
| 16 | Deeply embedded in the local population and the majority of the labour leadership , it influenced political strategy on all important issues ( see Bush 1984 for most of the next two paragraphs ) . |
| 17 | The foreign ministry in St Petersburg was in the first decades of the century ludicrously overstaffed : under Alexander I it gave ostensible employment to well over 700 people ( including the poet Pushkin ) , many of whom had no real duties whatever . |
| 18 | It had four companies with only a 67 per cent . |
| 19 | And although the proposal for a BPS women 's section was opposed by the women on the BPS Council , it had strong support among less powerful female psychologists , and students . |
| 20 | The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns . |
| 21 | The generator revved up and down , providing power to the automatic launcher ; it had some sort of randomly set variation built into where it was aiming because the clays came out at a different angle and heading each time . |