Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds
2 It estimated that total earning losses from Jan. 17 to Feb. 10 were more than US$130,500,000 and that exports had dropped by 95 per cent during the same period .
3 Since the Great War , 1914–18 , it has been practiced by wage-earners , suffering from long periods of unemployment and underemployment , so drastic that it seemed abject folly to produce children who could neither be adequately nourished nor sufficiently educated to secure a satisfactory livelihood .
4 One notable feature of the gold standard was that it allowed automatic adjustment to take place via changes in expenditure and output .
5 Engaged as consultants , Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton half solved the problem by changing the rear suspension , but it took another outsider to put BRM on the right track .
6 It took some time to get entry , there were delays , long sessions of questioning and trouble with certificates but in the end it was sorted out and we got on a plane in April 1974 .
7 It precluded any necessity to make sense of something yourself , to make real connections .
8 Facilities manager and financial bureau services operator Fiserv Inc , Milwaukee said it had definitive agreement to acquire Datatronix Financial Services Inc , San Diego for $31.75 a share , but did not say how many shares the cheque and financial item processor for financial institutions had out .
9 Beyond the inn a church tower perched in the tree-tops and behind it crowded high green sheltering hills .
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