Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be very galling for the KGB and GRU , having secured some seemingly important technical secret from the West as the result of a long , complex , covert operation , to see it wasted simply because Russian industry is quite incapable of utilising it . |
| 2 | It housed more than 4,000 parachutes , waiting to be serviced and packed , representing 60 percent of the requirement for the whole of the armed services and worth up to £15m . |
| 3 | As for its printing business — Olivetti proudly claims it produced more than 500,000 units in 1992 and is promising to make a number of new announcements through 1993 . |
| 4 | A representative sample of the adult British population was asked : ‘ If the company you work for had to move its premises , do you think you would or would not move with it and find a new home if it moved more than 50 miles away and gave you financial help to move ? ’ |
| 5 | But it caught on and this week around 100 young people came in to enjoy the snooker and non-alcoholic bar at their own meeting place , The Jam Pot Centre , run by the Church of the Nazarene in Lothian Road , Hartlepool . |
| 6 | It received more than 100 complaints this year . |
| 7 | It added dryly that heavy discounting by Texas Home Care in Scotland did not bode well for the sector , and included a range of profit downgrades — from previous forecasts of between £108m and £118m down to between £100m and £110m for this year , and between £110m and £125m for next year . |
| 8 | It came just as some bread with holes was unwrapped in our house . |
| 9 | It happened less than two days after a fourteen year old girl from Birmingham was killed in a joyriding incident . |
| 10 | It happened less than 72 hours after Sampras had paid warm tribute in Frankfurt to the veteran coach he said had helped him so much in a year which began disastrously without him but then led to outstanding success in the second half of the year , culminating in the ATP Tour Championships title . |
| 11 | At the extreme , if it turned out that one opinion was in a minority in every group or constituency mandating its one representative , then the gathering of representatives would be unanimous in its support for the other opinion , while the minority opinion would be entirely unrepresented , even though , in principle , it could be held by 49 per cent of those taking part in the mandating process . |
| 12 | In the course of our investigation it turned out that this character had been lying low , wanted by Bristol CID on fraud charges . ’ |
| 13 | It turned out that several people in the department were moving . |
| 14 | The flight of Asil Nadir on May 4th has destroyed the fraud case it spent more than two years and oodles of money building against him . |
| 15 | What she say want it thinned out or ordinary cut or what ? |
| 16 | Early last year Bairdwear closed its factories at Middlesbrough , where it employed more than 80 workers , and at Fencehouses in Durham with the loss of 40 jobs . |
| 17 | The instrument of war was the national State and it mattered little whether that State was called the beachhead of a world working class or simply an ordinary republic : the disciplines remained the same . |
| 18 | Twenty years ago , it contained more than 400 species of haplochromines , small fish that kept the algae down and maintained the food chain . |
| 19 | It took less than two years for the computer to change from being perceived as a threat and as something only big businesses would use to something one buys for doing income tax . |
| 20 | It took less than ten minutes to register how rich and distinctive Hannah 's land was — possibly the least improved meadows in upland Durham in fact . |
| 21 | It took more than two hours to control the flames at the Publicity Blinds factory on Regent Street in Northampton . |
| 22 | It took more than 40 years for that memorial to be raised , near the place where Raoul Wallenberg 's car was found after his disappearance into Russian hands . |
| 23 | It took more and more gin and wine to shut the words up , pick out the barbs . |
| 24 | Having gone , it was clear that , if it reached there before any kind of serious and sensible peace proposal could be offered , … the task force then had to do something . |
| 25 | Last year it nursed more than 1400 animals back to health . |
| 26 | Nervous selling hit FT-SE and it slipped more than 7 points . |
| 27 | It enrolled less than 50 members but it attracted active support from up to 2,000 sympathizers . |
| 28 | In 1428 , however , it and some neighbouring villages were excused from paying the subsidy because it had less than ten households , and the excavation of one of the houses suggests that it had been deserted as early as the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 29 | The superseding of medieval forms of agricultural exploitation had taken centuries ( and was still going on in some parts of Europe in 1880 ) , but the decisive changes were over ; the worker had been freed from indissoluble ties with the land , that land itself was increasingly treated as a commodity like any other , and it absorbed more and more capital to make higher and higher production possible . |
| 30 | It featured more than five locos in steam at one time or another . |