Example sentences of "it [vb past] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had Courbet , Degas , Corot , Picasso , Braque , Matisse , Delacroix , and it got a very good review in the New York Times . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So it became a really useful place of education . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | He had lopped off the leaves and twigs at a joint so that it made a very crude crutch . |
| 9 | ( 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The reported number of cases underestimated the actual frequency of the crime , but it bore a reasonably constant relationship to the real frequency . |
| 14 | It cost a simply huge amount . |
| 15 | " 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 . |
| 16 | Unfortunately you 'd be expecting too much : the game was poor back in Issue 3 when it received a very sad 32% . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It seemed a ridiculously important point of decision . |
| 20 | It seemed a singularly unlikely mode of achieving one 's objective . |
| 21 | To my young mind it seemed a most unScottish thing to do . |
| 22 | It seemed a rather broad question , and one for which Lord John could not think of a specific answer . |
| 23 | It seemed a rather difficult thing to do , somehow , which surprised me , as I had n't realized I still had some atavistic buried fear of him because he was black . |
| 24 | People bought her lunch and rang her up and sent her birthday cards ; it seemed a particularly cruel joke that one of the few people who really did dislike her should be married to her . |
| 25 | In fact I see from the note that accompanied the birthday card ( thank you ) that it seemed a particularly happy visit this time , and that you planned to come home in June ! |
| 26 | McLeish thought that it seemed a reasonably sensible plan . |
| 27 | The house I was after was on the south side , that much I knew , but it seemed a pretty standard sort of street with terraced houses down both sides , distinguished only by the colours of the front doors where the residents had actually bothered to renew the paintwork . |
| 28 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
| 29 | It seemed a very long time before he came back . |
| 30 | I thought about this and came to the conclusion that it seemed a very good philosophy . |