Example sentences of "it [vb past] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be extremely unattractive to any group of workers or management to enter a serious bid if they had been told by the Scottish Office that the bid was so contemptible that it would not even qualify for assistance if it failed because another bid from within the same management or work force had been judged as superior . |
| 2 | The US Treasury began to experience a depletion of its gold stock , so in August 1971 it announced that official convertibility of dollars into gold was temporarily suspended . |
| 3 | To start with , though his new car was an excellent and reliable machine , it lacked that complete superiority over its competitors which would have made it — as the Lotus , say , did for Mario Andretti — a necessary world-beater . |
| 4 | It noted that increased activity by Inland Revenue officers ( investigating those who had not paid tax ) had yielded an extra 71.3m of revenue in 1990/91 , which was equivalent to 2p on the basic rate of income tax ( Johnson and Jack 1991 ) . |
| 5 | It came as some surprise to the board when they were informed that , although it seemed unreasonable for them to have to know what was going on , they could be made liable for the damage . |
| 6 | It came as some comfort to me when I was about to leave Dowayoland that the chief of my village said that he would gladly accompany me back to my English village but that he feared a country where it was always cold , where there were savage beasts like the European dogs at the mission , and where it was known there were cannibals . ’ |
| 7 | It seemed that each member of the group had a question to ask concerning his or her own life , and the whole thing turned out to be a kind of Agony Aunt column — you took along your problem and were advised what you should do , and you did it . |
| 8 | It seemed that any movement of hers would be a snub . |
| 9 | It declared that ultimate responsibility for the killings lay with the de Klerk government which provided financial , security and political support to Ciskei and which had failed to restrain Gqozo . |
| 10 | It followed that any conflict in the industry was solely the result of mindless agitation and that the men were simply the dupes of their unscrupulous leaders . |
| 11 | Where no such group existed , it implied that some addition to the organisation was needed ; in other cases , the new requirements indicated a change in the responsibilities of existing functional groups . |
| 12 | From initial investigations , it appeared that some measure of the number of letters in a word , and the word shape , would be quite restrictive for the list of possible candidates ( for Case 1 ) , as discussed below . |
| 13 | He remembers hearing it said that each man in one gang at least vowed to kill or disable the keepers if they attempted to thwart their attacks on the game . |
| 14 | It said that human exposure to the gases were below government limits and there was no evidence that anyone had been harmed by them . |
| 15 | It recognized that any change in the status of the area would require the consent of a majority of the population . |
| 16 | It calculated that present output of 25.26 million bpd would have to be reduced to 23.58 million bpd . |
| 17 | It held that any system of assessment should –relate to expected routes of development' ( DES 1988a : para. 91 ) . |