Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neuron Data , better known for its Nexpert expert system until it re-invented itself as a GUI development outfit , plans to push on into what it sees as a burgeoning market for software which can make an ISV 's job designing solutions which work across heterogeneous environments much easier . |
| 2 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 3 | The former '80s high flier is already well on the way to digging itself out of the mess it got itself into a few years back . |
| 4 | For example , in Lonrho/House of Fraser ( 1979 ) , it concerned itself with the managerial capacity of a particular individual . |
| 5 | It manifested itself in the small hours at such an advanced stage that no cure save amputation of the head could bring relief . |
| 6 | Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme . |
| 7 | Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes . |
| 8 | It oppressed him like the static heat of the big sun — the lion sun — when nothing stirs . |
| 9 | The French were only ready to discuss a common market if it provided them with a high tariff ‘ wall ’ against outsiders and if there were complicated measures to guarantee equality of competition between members . |
| 10 | It drew her to a big yellow truck , where a dark scarf of smoke tugged across the pavement . |
| 11 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 12 | Frankie could not be one of them , yet he feared in his hear that it might be true , because when she called him ‘ Nigger ’ it wounded him in a special way he did not really understand . |
| 13 | The thought of it filled her with an immense regret because a child could not stay a child there would be men ( a man she hoped ) in Nicandra 's life , Aunt Tossie thought with pity and some disgust — her mind scampered hurriedly from the contemplation of a subject not forbidden so much as not existing for her . |
| 14 | From its first issue it identified itself as a coordinating centre for research in English studies , and indeed , the development of an identity based upon research for the discipline can be seen to have been one of its major functions . |
| 15 | BP has considerable experience of rationalisation ; along with much of the rest of UK manufacturing industry it reshaped itself during the early and mid-1980s . |
| 16 | January 1945 , by which time the Russians had established , and officially recognised the Union of Polish Patriots , ( later called the Lubin Committee ) and it proclaimed itself as the provisional government of Poland , a procedure which did not please the British , Americans , or the London Poles . |
| 17 | Well in fact it showed it as an outstanding amount . |
| 18 | The spirit came upon Jesus at the baptism , upon a man , upon a man and it came upon him It raised him from the dead . |
| 19 | Change was a mass movement ; it owed nothing to the puny efforts of the individual . |
| 20 | The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write . |
| 21 | It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight : |
| 22 | A fortress over the centuries , now it beckoned him with a fine house , The Vines , where once the German commandant had surveyed the desolated scene . |
| 23 | It disgraced itself on the Cambrian Coast Express some weeks ago and was hauled back ignominiously to the works where a tremendous flap occurred as to who paid for the necessary . |
| 24 | It puzzled him into the New Year of 1961 that no one asked his opinion . |
| 25 | It stung her to a sharp reply . |
| 26 | There were significant differences , for the factory system not only took child labour outside of the home , it placed it in an inferior overall environment . |
| 27 | Philosophically it inherited something from the Absolute Idealism of the Hegelians and other nineteenth-century opponents of materialism , thus refusing to think of ‘ reality ’ as distinct from ideas of reality . |
| 28 | It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us . |
| 29 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 30 | And then he turned over and saw the empty crumpled pillow beside him , and it hit him in a great wave . |