Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made it a perfect victim for the advance loans ' fraud . |
| 2 | That made it a crime within the family . |
| 3 | The financial system was given more freedom than before , but that made it an even more ruthless broadcaster of economic frailties . |
| 4 | This made it a greater challenge later on . |
| 5 | This made it a no-go area for the Hong Kong police and it developed into a warren of opium dens and criminal hideouts . |
| 6 | In Chile , in an address to the Congress , Bush stated that the country 's economic policies put it in the " forefront of the free-market movement now taking hold across Latin America " and that this made it a " prime candidate " for debt relief proposed under the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative . |
| 7 | This made it an essentially Positivistic way of analysing events , since it relied on a notion of underlying forces producing behaviour . |
| 8 | This made it an offence for anyone to conduct insurance business in the UK without authorisation and resulted from concern following the collapse of several ( mainly general insurance ) companies in the 1970s . |
| 9 | This made it an easy room to clean , no one would want to come in while she was working . |
| 10 | Reasonable flavour , although some found it a little bland . |
| 11 | It was black , as if once it had been varnished ; and this gave it a sheen of its own . |
| 12 | This gave it a weird , lop-sided look and might have made it unstable had that not been compensated for by putting the hold forward . |
| 13 | This gave it an influence among the Middle classes which it had never previously enjoyed , while allowing it to maintain the tenuous but important industrial base which it had been creating in the 1920s . |
| 14 | Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry . |
| 15 | The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 made it a legal requirement for Police Authorities to maintain consultative arrangements on behalf of the local community . |
| 16 | SEVEN sendings-off made it the season 's worst day for discipline and took the total to 50 , compared with 64 at the same stage last season . |
| 17 | Inside FI , it was known that Emerson could have gone on driving for a major team and many thought it a pity that he had not stuck to doing what he knew best . |
| 18 | Many thought it a cruel injustice that Julian should have to go to prison at all . |
| 19 | They all thought it a great joke . |
| 20 | This challenge to the state-centric outlook shared by Idealism and Realism ( and Behaviouralism ) was not a novel one , but the world of the 1970s gave it a new strength . |
| 21 | The academy was handicapped from the beginning by shortage of money ; and Torcy 's fall from office in October 1715 dealt it a severe blow . |
| 22 | The empiricism and opportunism of British foreign policy , its reluctance to embark on long-range plans , its dislike of large commitments and its responsiveness to public opinion all gave it a deceptive appearance of unprincipledness . |
| 23 | My Lords , the code which first made it a criminal offence to drive a motor vehicle with an amount of alcohol in the body exceeding a fixed statutory limit ( introduced by the Road Safety Act 1967 and re-enacted in the consolidating Road Traffic Act 1972 ) was found in course of judicial construction to have been drafted in a way which afforded to many drunken drivers a variety of wholly unmeritorious avenues of escape from conviction . |
| 24 | I first realised it the day of Len 's funeral , when I spilled the beans . |
| 25 | Yes , but when we first got it the radiator was n't on it was the summer time |
| 26 | Of the 45 women questioned in the survey , 9 thought sex a necessity for men ; 13 thought it a necessity for men and women ; 24 thought it a pleasure for both sexes ; 1 thought it an exclusive pleasure for men ; while 30 saw reproduction as the primary aim . |
| 27 | That gave it a high spot on her list of things to put out of commission . |
| 28 | Seaford was virtually dead as a trading centre by the time Henry VIII granted it a charter in 1544 . |
| 29 | UN Special Representative , Gunnar Jarring , and the US Secretary of State , William Rogers , both made it the foundation of their peace efforts before their failure led to the October 1973 war . |
| 30 | Of the 45 women questioned in the survey , 9 thought sex a necessity for men ; 13 thought it a necessity for men and women ; 24 thought it a pleasure for both sexes ; 1 thought it an exclusive pleasure for men ; while 30 saw reproduction as the primary aim . |