Example sentences of "it [vb past] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Anatomy Act did not end the odious traffic in corpses , though it checked the more extravagant crimes of body-snatchers , such as the murders committed in Edinburgh in 1828 by Burke and Hare , and in London three years later by Bishop and Williams . |
| 2 | It had Courbet , Degas , Corot , Picasso , Braque , Matisse , Delacroix , and it got a very good review in the New York Times . |
| 3 | It revealed an unrepentantly superficial world where life revolved around the minutiae of outward appearances and public display . |
| 4 | On the same day , however , it passed a highly controversial law by which all residents of Lithuania would be given certificates of citizenship provided they signed a pledge to uphold Lithuania 's independence constitution . |
| 5 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 6 | The legendary Miller ski , made in the USA , was one of them and it became a rather hot seller in the upmarket ski boutiques of London . |
| 7 | So it became a really useful place of education . |
| 8 | As we might expect , partisanship was a major influence upon image ratings , and it became an increasingly powerful influence as the election approached . |
| 9 | It became an extremely successful series , done with Professor Chris Kiernan , with a special agenda for mentally-handicapped children but appearing like a rather glossy children 's comic . |
| 10 | The London Board , which inherited a particularly efficient contracting subsidiary from a company undertaking , expanded it further ( even being allowed for special contracts to compete in the area of other Boards ) and it became the most profitable part of their operation . |
| 11 | ‘ It became the most important thing in his life . |
| 12 | It had seemed to her at the time that this was all she was to be allowed of Ace , and so it became the most precious thing in her life . |
| 13 | It recommended a more co-ordinated approach to the funding and management of care placing the responsibility for allocation of funds , assessment of need and co-ordination of care with the local authority social services department . |
| 14 | The working class had little direct input into public health and housing reform , but with the growth of collective action , in particular through the trade unions , it made a more significant contribution to later regulation such as rent control … |
| 15 | He had lopped off the leaves and twigs at a joint so that it made a very crude crutch . |
| 16 | ( It is a matter of some controversy whether the introduction of this name into the subject was essentially giving a new name to an older concept or whether it involved a significantly new point of view . |
| 17 | First , it provided a most favourable environment for the development of capitalism — a stable , well-organized political system , with a rational and effectively administered body of law , especially in so far as it related to property and contracts . |
| 18 | Before this point , whenever IBM had developed a new computer it used a completely different architecture from previous models and consequently existing software and hardware were discarded . |
| 19 | Of all these , Augmentations was probably the most remarkable , since its accounting processes were modern and it used a more rational system for collecting revenues than did the old Exchequer . |
| 20 | The reported number of cases underestimated the actual frequency of the crime , but it bore a reasonably constant relationship to the real frequency . |
| 21 | It cost a simply huge amount . |
| 22 | It demonstrated the rapidly growing importance of commuters in the Australian cities at this time . |
| 23 | " It caused a little social outing in my family , " said a pitman 's daughter who grew up in the South Yorkshire pit village where her father worked . |
| 24 | Unfortunately you 'd be expecting too much : the game was poor back in Issue 3 when it received a very sad 32% . |
| 25 | Indeed , in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it suffered an almost total collapse because of the imposition of a tax levied according to the value of goods advertised . |
| 26 | As the case developed , however , it spawned a more fundamental debate concerning legal strategies and the treatment of complainants , particularly in cases of sexual assault . |
| 27 | It provoked a remarkably hostile response from foreign governments , and those of four Contracting States to the Convention addressed notes of protest to the United States Government . |
| 28 | I hear that it provoked an extremely fierce response from Sithole . |
| 29 | Its leadership was corporate , unlike that of most modern churches ; it comprised an equally unusual feature , prophets and teachers in the leadership together- and they are not always the easiest of bedfellows . |
| 30 | There was a wild storm , and with it came the most frightening thunder and lightning that I have ever seen in my life . |