Example sentences of "[adj] it [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we move to oil well our oil business obviously operates in a cycle different to our publishing businesses and er , at the end of the first half it had record sales and profits fifteen percent ahead in dollar terms ten percent ahead in , in sterling terms which may surprise you slightly , but I think James probably will talk about that later . |
| 2 | To some it gave help in sickness and consolation in poverty . |
| 3 | It was suggested that as principal it had knowledge of whatever the first bank did as its agent . |
| 4 | In 1991 it assumed responsibility for its own catering , with total revenue increasing by 60 per cent partly as a result . |
| 5 | In 1991 it received payment from a client for work done and billed ( but without a VAT charge ) prior to October 1986 . |
| 6 | In the period 1637–1767 it furnished accommodation for smaller diets of representatives of the Confederate Forest Cantons ; its assembly room still boasts a handsome tiled heating stove of the period . |
| 7 | On her way back up the stairs she struck it to make sure it had petrol . |
| 8 | Exceptional Photoplays labelled it as ‘ an uncompromising film ’ and was quite sure it gave proof that ‘ motion picture art has by this time attained its majority ’ . |
| 9 | it might have been permanently grounded , but I 'm sure it found life was n't boring ! |
| 10 | Most of all it took discipline . |
| 11 | Once and for all it put Fascism back on the street . |
| 12 | When the United States regulated its coinage under the legislation of 1792 it displayed independence by designating the silver dollar as the basic unit . |
| 13 | This is not the place to discuss the intricacies of the argument and those it gave rise to in the anthropological press ( for a cross section of the arguments see , e.g. , Strathern 1983 ; Brady 1983 ) ; the purpose in raising it is to note the continued appeal of the debate and to point out Freeman 's confident rejection of the possibility of a peaceful society . |
| 14 | Throughout the '60s it seemed Lotus could do no wrong . |
| 15 | On March 25th it met President F.W. de Klerk , who promised that racially discriminatory laws would be off the statute book by the end of June . |
| 16 | Rio Tinto Finance and Exploration , a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Zinc , announced in 1987 it found gold three miles west of Omagh , Co . |
| 17 | In April 1987 it introduced evening trading sessions in US T-bond contracts to enable Japanese investors to hedge their cash market positions before Tokyo opened for business . |
| 18 | I am sorry it took place but I promise you it would be wisest to go home and forget it . ’ |
| 19 | In presenting the majority opinion , Justice William J. Brennan noted that the new statute had been framed to penalize all flag burning , regardless of motive , but contained " the same fundamental flaw " in that it suppressed expression with which the legislators disagreed . |
| 20 | The public consultation exercise that was part of that erm Greater York study , and quite clearly the Greater York study was not a statutory plan , it was an informal plan , but it was the only way really that progress could be made in the absence erm of adopted local plans in Greater York , it was essential that that document was pursued to give a framework for the preparation of district local plans er and the greenbelt local plan , and the resolution that followed the consultation and the long body of work , and I 'll read it out , was that the development strategy for Greater York from ninety six to two thousand and six should be based on agreed sites within and on the periphery of the built up area , and that the residual requirement be met for the development of a new settlement or settlements located beyond the outer boundary erm of the greenbelt , a quite clearly there 's a major policy implication there that a new settlement was not acceptable within the greenbelt but would have to be er outside the outer boundary of the greenbelt , and the public consultation on that er study er attracted widespread support for a new settlement strategy in Greater York , all six authorities agreed that that was the direction er that had to be taken , it also had another benefit in that it enabled work on the York greenbelt local plan erm to proceed and that has now been taken forward to the stage where the enquiry terminated in May , it 's a joint enquiry in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , with a Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry in April ninety three , and we would hope that the inspectors report on that six month enquiry , when he considered all the objections to the er greenbelt proposals of the County Council , largely supported by the er District Council will be available er in the near future . |
| 21 | Militarisation worked for the Nazis as it had for the Prussians in that it helped control large numbers of people , allowed a cheap and easy growth of populist emotion and nationalist identity and became the mainspring of industry by providing demand . |
| 22 | Erm this meant that how that er erm some of the problems actually arose from the outline landlord itself er by land law itself in that it discussed land reform in very general terms and the policy towards middle and rich peasants was left unclear erm which meant that how that classes were being mis-classified and the movement was getting out of hand . |
| 23 | After that it required ratification by the 19 EEA parliaments and the European Parliament . |
| 24 | In particular it provided flexibility by including a significant proportion of short term placements . |
| 25 | It was very difficult to keep in working order , and when the emperor Charles V saw it in Pavia in 1529 it needed repair . |
| 26 | But when county boundaries were reorganised in nineteen seventy four it became part of the new county of avon . |
| 27 | In 1988 it played host to a visiting exhibition of impressionist paintings borrowed from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad . |
| 28 | The Local Government Board had bought the waterworks three years earlier , and on August 4 1856 it commissioned town surveyor Mr G Mason to design and build the first spouter at the top of Tubwell Row . |
| 29 | In 1944 it took courage to write so favourably about Pound ; and it may even be that Phyllis Bottome foresaw , and was trying to guard against , the peril that Pound would be in as soon as hostilities should be over . |
| 30 | With an eye on the general election on June 6th , the Popular Party ( PP ) , the main opposition party , claimed on May 10th it had proof that the Socialist government bore some responsibility for last year 's dramatic collapse of KIO 's Spanish business empire . |