Example sentences of "it [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH Airways yesterday became the latest casualty of Black Wednesday as it revealed the slumping pound had helped cause profits to crash 80 per cent in the third quarter . |
| 2 | Although Labour was defeated in the General Election of 1924 , the election which saw the publication of the ‘ Zinoviev Letter ’ with the allegation that it revealed the Communist intention to stir the masses of workers to revolution through using the Labour Party and the Anti-Soviet treaty , its vote increased by more than one million , or about 24 per cent , even though the number of Labour MPs was reduced from 191 to 151 . |
| 3 | Then it became the only way to work : shut mother out , shut out her demands , her outrages , concentrate , work . |
| 4 | In 1990 it became the first company to offer on-line access to data from Companies House on all limited companies operating in the UK . |
| 5 | so that it lacked the technical vocabulary needed to accommodate the translations of classical texts . |
| 6 | Firstly , the absence of any kind of derivative exchange in Germany meant that it lacked the financial culture to guarantee the successful operation of a one centre open outcry market . |
| 7 | Observers commented that the party 's support appeared to come largely from the Kikuyu , the country 's largest ethnic group , and that it lacked the broad-based support enjoyed by FORD . |
| 8 | It made the startled singer wan na Shout as loudly as her Sixties hit when it was plonked on her plate at a wedding feast by a mischievous magician . |
| 9 | As with most research projects covering unfamiliar ground , it was not clear at the time how this would help the subsequent investigation , but it met the immediate need to record the results in a concise and tidy manner . |
| 10 | This reflected the successful Soviet cultivation of this small state and it helped the Soviet Union legitimise a number of its cherished initiatives for the Mediterranean . |
| 11 | It helped the whole congregation realise the affection of their heavenly Father in a fresh way for that day : as such it was encouraging , strengthening and was not to be despised ! |
| 12 | But , of course , as the patient 's immune system recovered and rejected the cancer so it rejected the transplanted organ leaving the patient with no option but to return to dialysis . |
| 13 | ‘ We are always busy here , and it seemed the right time to start planning for an extension , ’ she said . |
| 14 | It seemed the right thing to do , though he could not have said why . |
| 15 | Schellenberg gasped , mainly because it seemed the right thing to do . |
| 16 | ‘ It seemed the only way to avoid a huge argument . ’ |
| 17 | It seemed the only thing to do . |
| 18 | It seemed the only thing to do in face of what he said . |
| 19 | We had a date for this afternoon but when I heard about Francis it seemed the decent thing to postpone the arrangement . |
| 20 | I had always loved walking so it seemed the obvious thing to do . |
| 21 | I do n't live here , but it seemed the obvious thing to do . ’ |
| 22 | As darkness fell there was hardly a soul about , but just before 9pm it seemed the whole village poured out into the street , and there appeared two men carrying shoulder-high the most grotesque straw figure of a man , its eyes glowing in the darkness from torch bulbs hidden in its head . |
| 23 | It seemed the blind girl found living with Boz and his bride very restricting , but due to the bad weather she was not allowed to leave the camp for much of the winter . |
| 24 | It seemed the natural thing to do . |
| 25 | It seemed the natural thing to do . |
| 26 | It seemed the natural thing to have him singing at the wedding . |
| 27 | But with toilets , a telephone and electricity it seemed the ideal place to settle down . |
| 28 | It seemed the safe thing to do . |
| 29 | It committed the forthcoming summit to draw up a mandate for negotiations on short-range nuclear forces . |
| 30 | It allowed the surviving spouse to inherit the full SERP entitlement of a contributor , provided both were over retirement age . |