Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd meant her tone to be clipped and dismissive , but even to her own ears it sounded slurred and indistinct as she made a mental attempt to regain conscious control over the increased rhythm of her heart . |
| 2 | Even to his ears it sounded wild . |
| 3 | Once she had recovered full consciousness it became clear that she had entirely lost the power of speech . |
| 4 | It was at a height of nearly 3,000 metres & the air outside was well below freezing , but the lava tunnel was in an area of recent activity , and as a result it boasted beautiful underfloor heating . |
| 5 | In carrying through its programme it honoured certain political debts , especially to the miners [ Morgan , 1984 ] . |
| 6 | With a boat neck it had short sleeves , and Kate bit her lip as she realised it was going to have a pretty powerful impact . |
| 7 | With its removeable roof stored in the roof it looked great , but the word from Pininfarina and General Motors Europe was not promising . |
| 8 | After much uncertainty it became plain that the Russians could not expect Mr Aziz to return to Moscow until late on Thursday ; he was expected to go at once to see Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 9 | ‘ Then the play opened and on the first Friday it looked set to be the day . |
| 10 | At first , researchers attempted to place this style in the area from which it was assumed to originate — perhaps Persia , China or Central Asia — but through historical research it became clear that this was based on the false premise that the cloth was made in the original style of a certain group of people . |
| 11 | To Lucy it looked drab and overdone , lined with cars bumper-to-bumper like every other London street that she 'd seen since she arrived . |
| 12 | To the LDDC it seemed apparent that any effective programme for Docklands would need to concentrate on a number of key objectives . |
| 13 | Because of the poor response to gluten free diet and the presence of lymphoma it seemed reasonable to consider that the malabsorption was as a result of an enteropathy associated with the lymphoma ( EATCL ) rather than simple coeliac disease . |
| 14 | After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen . |
| 15 | Despite its apparent relativism , in practice it defined alternative centres of cultural authority primarily in terms of their difference from the norm of English culture , not in their uniqueness and their discontinuities . |
| 16 | Its inclusion in the categories of capital murder had originally been defended by the Government on the grounds that the presence of a gun was an indication of a pre-meditated offence , but in practice it proved impossible to maintain the distinction between deliberate killings committed with a gun , or a knife or other weapon . |
| 17 | The US State Department said on Tuesday it suspected Serbian arms destined for Somalia were on the ship which was apparently heading for Kenya . |
| 18 | In this light it looked black . |
| 19 | At first light it became clear that HMS Impregnable had carried five miles across shoal water from the Dean to a position about half way between Langstone and Chichester harbours , approximately half a mile from Hayling Island . |
| 20 | At half-time it looked bad for Town but they came bouncing back with two goals in a minute … |
| 21 | It did so not only through the stringent processing of applications and the guidance it offered individual institutions , but also through more general analysis of the problems faced by institutions making the transition from ‘ monotechnic ’ to diversified colleges . |
| 22 | Even under Edward 's guidance it proved difficult to feel my way into the texts he gave me to read . |
| 23 | Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures . |
| 24 | The deficit , according to the Finance Ministry , represented 5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) — a figure it believed acceptable to the IMF . |
| 25 | The Labour Party 's 1,300-member central committee convened in Tel Aviv on March 12 and voted overwhelmingly to give the party 's executive committee ( comprising its 39 Knesset members and a further 87 senior officials ) authority to take whatever action it thought necessary to advance the peace process . |
| 26 | Temperatures were in the high seventies and with the absence of any wind it felt sticky and humid . |
| 27 | When a piece of quicklime was held in the tip of the flame it became white hot and glowed brilliantly . |
| 28 | Performed in Shiraz it aroused enormous anger and offence . |
| 29 | In the succeeding months it became plain that the determination of American leaders to play the key role in shaping the new world order was to clash with the equally determined insistence of the Russians that their interests were of paramount importance over a large part of the globe . |
| 30 | OSF/1 was ACE 's primary Unix focus when the initiative was launched amidst much fanfare last year , but over the following months it became clear that DEC was the only major ACE member committed to using the operating system . |