Example sentences of "it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became the local community creative scene encompassing not only music , but mime , drama , poetry reading and in fact , an outlet for local cottage industry . |
| 2 | ‘ But it made a difficult situation impossible , caused distress to her and her husband and sounded the death knell on the marriage which until then , although in difficulties , neither of them had given up hope of saving . ’ |
| 3 | A ‘ commercial operation but not run for commercial values ’ , it made a conscious decision some years ago to recruit the ‘ best people available ’ . |
| 4 | When we could n't revive it , it made the whole thing worse for them . |
| 5 | The Unwins themselves — and it was impossible for anyone to grudge them their moment — said over and over that it was great , just great that one of the horses actually on the train had won one of the races , it made the whole thing worthwhile , and the whole party , drifting into the dining car in true party mood , agreed and applauded . |
| 6 | The secretary-managership of Leeds City had become vacant on the retirement of Scott Walford at the end of the club 's most disastrous season since it entered the Second Division eight years before , and the public looked with keen interest to see what effect the new man 's ‘ shrewd judgement and tactful management ’ ( Yorkshire Post ) would have . |
| 7 | In an address to Young Unionists , the Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP slammed SDLP and Eire politicians who claimed it cost a million pounds each day to secure the border . |
| 8 | It received a good deal less consideration than it deserved from those whose concern with the quality of teacher education led them ( as it led us ) to the opposite view . |
| 9 | It seemed a better idea this time . |
| 10 | In 1986 , tacitly acknowledging Getty-power , it retitled a slimmed-down version Recent Acquisitions . |
| 11 | It survived the Great Fire intact and between 1621 and 1638 was the headquarters of the East India Company . |
| 12 | It used the allocation , came back and said that its original estimate was entirely wrong and it required an extra £48 million — the original estimate was £48 million out . |
| 13 | It differed from the budget proposed by the President in that it included an additional $4,400 million for domestic spending on education , health and social service programmes at the expense of space and scientific programmes . |
| 14 | Therefore the aircraft is most likely to have been hit by heavy machine-gun fire , which , unless it hit a vital spot such as fuel tanks or engines , would not cause the immediate destruction of the aircraft , but could kill or disable the pilot . |
| 15 | And it looked a nice pony one . |
| 16 | In it they asserted quite clearly that permitting divorce would certainly affect the stability of all Irish marriages because it rendered every Irish marriage dissoluble : ‘ It is as though the legal availability of divorce builds up a social pressure which , for large numbers of people , becomes stronger than moral or religious resistance ’ ( abridged version , Irish Times , 14 May 1986 ) . |
| 17 | He was a suspect at the time , but it took a scientific breakthrough ten years later , to convict him — a DNA profile test which was pioneered by Cellmark Diagnostics in Abingdon in Oxfordshire : |
| 18 | First in the world to deploy an ICBM , it took the Soviet Union ten years longer than the United States to develop a reliable guidance system ; it has also taken 25 years to develop a quiet nuclear submarine , and having set the pace with anti-satellite weapons , the USSR may already have fallen behind the United States in this field . |
| 19 | It reached an all time high of twenty five percent in about nineteen seventy five and it 's gone down since . |
| 20 | The award was presented by the Prince of Wales at the Annual Meeting of the per cent club , which I 've already mentioned , and it was during nineteen ninety , and it won the private sector small to medium size company , or companies subsidiary sector category . |
| 21 | Shell said it appeared the 3,625 ton Danish refrigerated cargo ship Icestar had a fouled propeller . |
| 22 | The government broadly accepted the Report 's recommendations in July 1971 when it issued the long-awaited Circular 7/71 which also announced the prospect of some small expansion of art and design courses . |
| 23 | But the little dog I went , I took a friend to collect her little dog from the vet it 's had a double hernia , has n't it , double hernia , it , it had a tremendous operation dear little thing , but she said he had a wart under he 's eye and on it 's own accord it dried up and dropped off . |
| 24 | It had a bright plastic deep-fried atmosphere and menu but the alternative as Maxim had pointed out was a long slow dinner at some hotel where they would have made themselves conspicuous by not , repeat not , ordering a couple of bottles of wine . |
| 25 | It left the French golfer four strokes ahead of Gronberg , with Davies one stroke further behind , to be sharing third place with Annika Sorenstam from Sweden . |
| 26 | Yeah but then it split the bloody pairs all in bits . |
| 27 | You know , Nicholas , that whatever miseries the Great War brought it destroyed a great deal that was unhealthy between the sexes . |