Example sentences of "it [vb past] a [adj -er] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It recommended a stronger role for local authorities coordinating a range of services provided by the private and voluntary sectors as well as by the local authorities themselves . |
| 2 | Party meetings continued to be held at the Carlton and it played a greater part in holding the party together when the Liberal Unionists joined . |
| 3 | The company recognised that it faced a greater problem in attracting the Kent-based ( Orpington ) staff to Stevenage than it had in persuading the north London staff to move — distance alone was an important consideration . |
| 4 | It was a mark of the respect Jimmy gained here that , when we ran an article about him in the Spring of 1977 in our Palace Programme , it evoked a larger response from our fans than any other in that series . |
| 5 | The Agenais and other territories were not restored immediately ; it needed a further war in 1326 and an agreement , concluded in March 1327 , to secure the restoration of those lands . |
| 6 | Though it packed a stronger punch in the north-eastern states , it wreaked greater havoc in the south . |
| 7 | It required a calmer appraisal of her predicament . |
| 8 | In much work that was to develop within the compass of physical geography , the chronology assumed a greater significance , it required a greater knowledge of existing and recently developed dating techniques , and it thus involved close liaison with other disciplines particularly geology , biology and archaeology amongst the broadening spectrum of the earth and environmental sciences . |
| 9 | It enabled a larger number of European countries to be included at the outset . |
| 10 | Thus , as prices rose , the effective rate of duty fell : the amount yielded was the same , but it represented a smaller proportion of the value of the goods . |
| 11 | Last year it broadened an earlier agreement with Venezuela and Ecuador . |
| 12 | Although it was more mundane than its northern contemporary , it had a greater influence on subsequent town planning because it was not conceived as industrial housing but as a genuine attempt to improve living conditions for the working classes and encourage independence . |
| 13 | It had a greater impact on prices than previous upswings of comparable magnitude . |
| 14 | The ideological claim was that the Soviet Union was , by definition , more advanced since it had a deeper experience of socialism , but that of course is nonsense . |
| 15 | Two major Jacobite risings , and the plotting which took place on other occasions , were enough to put a considerable number of gentlemen in danger and , indeed , so long as the Jacobite cause retained a substantial following in Scotland it had a further effect upon politics , for the unwillingness of many gentlemen of Jacobite sentiments to take the oaths to Government further limited an already small electorate . |
| 16 | Weak though its labour organisation may have been in the 1880s , it had a longer tradition of trade unionism among seamen than any other part of the country . |