Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the majority in favour of merit , SCOTVEC 's implementation of it attracted critical comment . |
| 2 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 3 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 4 | The force of it lifted Golden Girl 's stern and for a moment Trent feared that she would bury her bows in the sea and pitch-pole . |
| 5 | Moddy Dhu was the PHANTOM dog of the Isle of Man , and the sight of it caused immediate death . |
| 6 | The Act defined the area for which bye-laws could be made , that is , all of the Moray Firth , although much of it comprised international waters . |
| 7 | Officially 20 acres of arable land was regarded as standard , but with some of it left fallow each year , many people must have got by with much less in practice , for in East Anglia , c . |
| 8 | In the relatively affluent days of the 70s and early 80s leisure centres , squash courts and swimming pools sprang up all over the place , much of it made available through international funds . |
| 9 | The incident , and his own weak , almost contemptible handling of it came near to making his third premiership seem to himself and others an ill-judged prolongation of power , a disastrous epilogue to the rest of his career . |
| 10 | The rest of it remained open until the early seventeenth century , when new enclosures led to major agrarian unrest in the shire , with Cotesbach at the centre of it . |
| 11 | Yet if Eliot continued to remember his anthropological reading , this does not mean that his view of it remained unchanged . |
| 12 | Fucking alright , I have n't been up to the today , I 've spent most of it sat fucking here . |
| 13 | The lure of It proved irresistible . |
| 14 | Beyond the inn a church tower perched in the tree-tops and behind it crowded high green sheltering hills . |
| 15 | In Ghana 46% of the population are under sixteen years of age which brings with it associated social problems . |
| 16 | At a national level the Triple Alliance collapsed in April ; with it went socialist hope that a united union movement could challenge the government . |
| 17 | He ran a shrewd brown eye over the formidable ramifications of Isambard 's favourite castle , and speculated on which of the stony holes under it held young Harry . |
| 18 | The sky above it burned orange and flame . |
| 19 | Huy held on to the thin throat until the face above it turned blue and tears appeared . |
| 20 | From it fell refracted light , on balding heads and shaven heads , on Mohican plumes and gelled spikes , on neatly barbered and dressed locks , on neglected middle-aged wispy bobs , on plaits and loops and layered body waves . |
| 21 | In a two-year period of review from late 1981 the Course as a whole and all fields within it reviewed overall principles , the design of the Course and the specific contributions of subject areas . |
| 22 | But people do live there , though when I moved in it became clear that a third of the flats were empty . |
| 23 | In the churches , traditional orthodoxy of a more or less pre-Enlightenment character fought to retain its footing , but alongside it grew other movements ranging from what today would be called Conservative Evangelicalism to those which were consciously progressive , liberal and modern . |
| 24 | It was large and heavy , a weighty double handful , smoothed above by exposure , beneath its dappling of lichen and moss ; but when Cadfael turned it over it showed rough and pale , with some jagged edges that were tipped with a dark crust , not yet dried out . |
| 25 | Necessary as legislation was in terms of public safety , for years it was unattractive to Ministers since it required considerable expenditure whilst at the same time being unlikely to attract any votes . |
| 26 | The dialogue which ran up to it showed good pace , and the strength of the star 's performance , absent in recent days , began again to show through . |
| 27 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 28 | Hugh , who had worn the uniform of a verderer for less than a twelvemonth , was no use to them as a guide and as the day grew on it became evident that his arm was causing him a great deal of pain . |
| 29 | The bed looked neat , smooth and austere , and the books on the table beside it had dark sober covers and were obviously devotional books and anthologies of poetry . |
| 30 | Close under the grey buttresses of the wall one of the long stones was propped on its side , the grave beside it laid open to the frosty sky . |