Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It laid bare the dynamics of the transformation overcoming the Empire . |
| 2 | It became redundant a couple of years ago when the Chipmunk glider tug it was providing spares for was replaced by a Piper Pawnee . |
| 3 | However , the growth of the Catholic population was such that it became clear the Diocese of Beverley which comprised the whole of Yorkshire needed to be divided . |
| 4 | The inflation was also a good thing in that it produced all the contents of the universe quite literally out of nothing . |
| 5 | For the first time Janine felt that she had an ally , and it made all the difference to her . |
| 6 | This development was important because it made possible the invention of the domestic clock and also the watch . |
| 7 | But , for Canterbury , it made possible the appointment of a new prior , and Anselm appointed Ernulf , who was one of Lanfranc 's men , but of a very different stamp from his predecessor . |
| 8 | It made unlikely the resurrection of the four-party coalition of the outgoing government — the DC , PSI , and the smaller Liberals ( PLI ) and Social Democrats ( PSDI ) . |
| 9 | It burned all the top of his head and he hung a hot thing over the handle on the door - front door and so he put his hand on the handle and there was piece of skin it was all burned off |
| 10 | It seemed such a waste to be driving back to England and leaving it all behind . |
| 11 | But it seemed such a peach of a way out of trouble . |
| 12 | So I had opened the shutters on what is called complementary medicine with a slightly heavy heart for it seemed such an indictment of our present specialized , technological society when all medicine must simply be ‘ healing . ’ |
| 13 | Beginning and ending with formal parades , it displayed all the paradoxes of an occupation whose function was simultaneously to be both the controllers and the controlled . |
| 14 | This is a very efficient heat-transfer mechanism , and if it existed all the way into the region of the atmosphere which radiated to space then by today the Jovian interior would have lost almost all of its heat of formation , and any remnant could not be a significant source of internal energy . |
| 15 | The truce of 1921 was attacked as a typical piece of Lloyd George chicanery , and it needed all the efforts of the party leaders to stop the party from breaking up the government there and then . |
| 16 | Now it covered all the lowlands of Sichuan . |
| 17 | It brought all the agonies of doubt and self-criticism which we can too easily forget . |
| 18 | It contained all the instructions for his escape that night . |
| 19 | It contained all the mementoes of an organisation for which pain and suffering ( military and personal ) became virtues , because they were experienced in the cause of the Legion and ultimately the cause of France . |
| 20 | It offered all the excitement of an adventure with ‘ yer mates ’ , the chance to display fanatical loyalty to your club , to prove your hardness and win the admiration of your friends . |
| 21 | It meant such a transformation in his life , a whole new community and way of living . " |
| 22 | He recorded in his diary that he thought it represented such a threat to the good name of politicians that a special regulatory authority should be set up to stop the BBC ever doing anything so wicked again . |
| 23 | It was then I noticed a small cut on his forearm , at least it looked small until it opened up and I realised it went all the way through all the underlying muscles . |
| 24 | At first it assumed a sallow glow ; then , during the cold spring , it went all the way from hot-dog mustard to peanut butter . |
| 25 | It 's loving-kindness and simplicity , and it lay all the time in your pictures , implicit in every petal and every jug you ever painted . ’ |
| 26 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 27 | It took all the strength of Perdita 's frantically squeezing legs to stop her ducking out . |
| 28 | It took half an hour for Rock Hudson and a doctor to pull him from the wreck . |
| 29 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 30 | The last tiny flicker of hope seemed to die inside her , and as it did all the lights in the grand chamber went out . |