Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is kept alone due to its aggressive behaviour — it attacked two large Pacus and a 1½″ long Arrowana and had to be swiftly moved . |
| 2 | At the time , the mill , which was powered by the Painswick Stream , was engaged in the cloth trade , as it housed two fulling stocks and a gig mill . |
| 3 | By the early part of the 18th century , it housed two fulling mills and in 1709 was leased or sold by John Freame to Thomas Yates or Yeates . |
| 4 | In 1764 it housed four fulling stocks and two gig mills . |
| 5 | It is hardly surprising that it replaced the old ‘ putting out ’ system , nor that it led displaced domestic workers and artisans to smash machinery in a wave of ‘ Luddite ’ outbreaks . |
| 6 | It produced 100 million francs and plenty of newsreel showing sacks of letters being unloaded in Colombey . |
| 7 | It rated one resident policeman and a mention in the Shell Guide . |
| 8 | When the Cork-based company , Raybestos of Ringaskiddy , was found to be dumping asbestos illegally in the late 1970s , it created such local uproar and intractable opposition that the company had to leave . |
| 9 | Not in this airless back yard with its cat-fouled alley , yet now it bore shining green leaves and four fat flower buds — and Gerry would never see them . |
| 10 | It 's completed , it 's ready to work , it cost two billion dollars and it 's idle . |
| 11 | His voice was quite kind , but it forbade any more questions and Jinny fell silent , looking back over her shoulder as they reached the lip of the little hollow . |
| 12 | It attracted considerable public attention and was also regarded as proof in certain circles that many elements in the society of Northern Ireland whose ultimate political purposes differed in very marked degree could cooperate in peaceful and lawful demonstration in favour of certain common and limited objectives . |
| 13 | Liberal policy was unpatriotic because it recognised other national interests and threatened dissolution of the empire . |
| 14 | It comprised 189 full members and 130 alternate members , compared with 175 full and 110 alternate members elected to the 13th committee . |
| 15 | Idi Lala , leader of the exiled MCLN , described the RDC 's decision to stick to a one-party system as " thoughtless and dangerous " , because it ignored recurrent social unrest and mass support for a multiparty system . |
| 16 | It recruited 4,000 new members and raised £70,000 . |
| 17 | It covered all manual workers and those earning up to a given sum — 430 a year by 1942 . |
| 18 | It covered 1,429 industrial workers and supervisors in England and Wales who could vary their work effort either through working overtime or by producing more in piece work . |
| 19 | It covered some 1000 sq.km and stood at 393 metres below sea level in the 1930s . |
| 20 | Mossop could not remember the address and it required several false starts and wrong turnings before they located the right house , one grey-dashed end-of-terrace dwelling among the featureless many that spread like silt round the fenced-off acres of pipelines and flares . |
| 21 | As well , the rest of the house was as near to immaculate as a house could be when it contained three teenage boys and a busy man . |
| 22 | It prohibited new corporate investment and loans to government agencies , forbade imports of iron , steel , uranium , coal , agricultural products and textiles , and banned air services between the two countries . |
| 23 | It took all five teachers and the matron to lift the enormous woman and stagger with her out of the room . |
| 24 | At auction it took five agonising minutes and £700 to secure the house . |
| 25 | It won substantial critical acclaim and will show in Britain next year . |
| 26 | It had sixty-three local branches and its pensioners numbered eighty-eight . |
| 27 | It had five broken ribs and a cracked skull , and it was brain-damaged for life . ’ |
| 28 | The bed looked neat , smooth and austere , and the books on the table beside it had dark sober covers and were obviously devotional books and anthologies of poetry . |
| 29 | The health-care task force , which is due to deliver its report to the president any day now , has outdone all previous committees on every imaginable measure : size ( it had 500 full-time members and innumerable hangers-on ) , complexity ( it was divided into 15 ‘ cluster groups ’ and 34 working groups ) , rigour ( the heads of the working-groups are now having their work reassessed by ‘ auditors ’ and ‘ contrarians ’ ) ; and , not least , ambition . |
| 30 | It had six million viewers and it 's by far the most popular thing I 've done , but I do think it was watched by all types and ages of people . ’ |