Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evans ' caution , however , is understandable , and until the effectiveness or otherwise of more elaborate organizations could be tested in a variety of settings it made sense to list more modest requirements for supportive bases to innovative and resource-based work . |
| 2 | It sold out quickly and after a repressing it reached number four in the independent chart published in Melody Maker . |
| 3 | More significantly , in practice it encouraged speculation in the more traditional sense — on assets whose prices were expected to rise by considerably more than the overall price level ( and would indeed do so if enough speculators made similar judgements ) . |
| 4 | It finished up with one erm very relevant , relevant to this class , quotation erm ca n't remember the last part of it though , he was talking about the Indian , that he had a , talking about it and saying voodism catholism and then the next stage erm which I ca n't remember the word but in effect it meant co-operation and you ca n't get that it seems to me unless you have a , a change of vision , change in erm not just in society but in people because this is where it starts . |
| 5 | In practice this agreement reflected yet again the pattern adopted by Shearman in Bedfordshire from 1930 onwards , and in effect it gave university resident tutors freedom to arrange both types of Chapter III courses . |
| 6 | In the short term it did sterling work in organizing petitions , counter-demonstrations and , most significantly , a mass lobby of Haringey Council in October , 1986 , when the Labour councillors reaffirmed their commitment to all aspects of their lesbian and gay rights policy . |
| 7 | This bull did irreparable harm to the Catholic cause in England ; coming too late to assist the Northern rising , which had already collapsed by the time it was issued , in the long term it equated Catholicism closely with treason and made the recusant community the object of deepening fear and suspicion . |
| 8 | But in the split second it took Angel Two to cover the few feet between them , Grant reflexively pulled the trigger of the shotgun . |
| 9 | Last May it directed member states to do away with licensing rules like Britain 's , which create import monopolies . |
| 10 | The lecture he gave and the responses it provoked form perhaps the most widely read debate in jurisprudence in Britain in the period since the Second World War . |
| 11 | He was at least partly associated with the decision to introduce ‘ hard labour ’ into prisons , but far from providing regular , steady discipline and useful work it became drudgery of the hardest and most servile kind , a hated example of the additional pains of imprisonment . |
| 12 | Perhaps under the circumstances it made sense to remain in the one place . |
| 13 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |
| 14 | Couple of years after the war it got sort er bit more freer , you see . |
| 15 | erm I can not see , and this is where I part company with Peter Williamson to some extent , I can not see any reason why his data should be regarded as showing that when the sudden change did take place it took place for any reason other than natural selection within a single population . |
| 16 | What the star was , how it was connected to Eärendil , how the name could cover both star and man , from what danger it signalled deliverance , whether that deliverance was final for the soulless elves … all these questions , and others , could find answers in the inventions of later narrative , in the different viewpoints of The Silmarillion or Bilbo 's song in The Fellowship of the Ring . |
| 17 | In its early days it attracted support from a wide range of anti-Francoist groups , including Catholic workers ' organizations , but subsequently it came increasingly under the control of the communist party . |
| 18 | During November it ordered ground forces over the " security zone " border on three occasions and in a clash on Nov. 27 on the edge of the zone five Israeli soldiers were killed by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) guerrillas . |
| 19 | And they said you know , and then all of a sudden it had sort of gone up six percent . |
| 20 | In the mid-1980s it became part of the electricians ' union the EEPTU . |
| 21 | Within the business it guaranteed capital , perhaps useful business contacts , and above all reliable managers . |
| 22 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
| 23 | For nearly 300 years it achieved notoriety for its private madhouses . |
| 24 | The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources . |
| 25 | At first in the shadow of the wall it seemed pitch black , but his eyes rapidly adjusted to the light , or lack of it . |
| 26 | Next day it became bus service 12 , now shared with the blue buses of Fylde Borough . |
| 27 | And it was pink paper and at the top it had space for your parent 's signature so that when you 've done the work your parents had |
| 28 | After the service it took time for the galleries to empty . |
| 29 | If the Labour Party was to recover intellectually from the collapse of MacDonald 's " biological gradualism " and to build its local organisation it needed support from radical intellectuals and from the youth . |
| 30 | On each occasion it took time to warm a new ball . |