Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it achieved sales of £65 million in the last financial year , it has shed a hundred and twenty of its six hundred staff . |
| 2 | As people tried and failed , the cash on offer accumulated until it reached $17,000 on the day Ed went on court . |
| 3 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 4 | In the great store wars to get customers in , supermarkets invented the ‘ loss leader ’ — lines such as bread on which they were prepared to make a small loss if it lured people in . |
| 5 | His writings , particularly his Homilies on Ezechiel , composed while he was pope , show that he thought the contemplative life of monks would be best validated if it bore fruit in action . |
| 6 | And some people say that 's the best thing that happened to it being voted that cos it meant people had done things about it and sorted it out but you think it 's still dull as |
| 7 | I enjoyed doing this because it took people by surprise . |
| 8 | THE owner of a Newtownards pub targeted by loyalist bombers because it hosted folk music sessions has vowed that he will not give in to terrorist threats . |
| 9 | SYLVESTER Stallone took a £1.2 million pay cut to save his latest movie after it went £15 million over budget . |
| 10 | Better education opportunities : There was a general sense of dissatisfaction with education provision which seemed to relate more to whether it met people 's needs than the actual range of classes provided . |
| 11 | Fisons , which reported a strong rise in drug sales , balancing poorer performances in its other operations , inspired Wellcome at first before it lost 10p to 734p . |
| 12 | The £12m , which continues to rise , compares with the £17½m paid by the company in expenses when it raised £250m in its stock market flotation last year . |
| 13 | The £12m , which continues to rise , compares with the £17½m paid by the company in expenses when it raised £250m in its stock market flotation last year . |
| 14 | The simplest reported that two Octopuses at Portsmouth Sea Life Centre required the use of two giant beer coolers from the Carlsberg brewery to chill the Solent sea water used in the tanks when it reached 22°C . |
| 15 | MICHELIN , the world 's largest tyre maker , which sounded a warning of the depths of recession when it plunged £527m into the red last year , yesterday surprised the market with an operating profit throughout 1991 . |
| 16 | Sympathy for the general aims of civil rights legislation turned to hostility when it affected people 's everyday lives . |
| 17 | Royal Bank won its first gold star when it lent £70,000 to help Mr Miller , a professional caterer , to buy a restaurant business in Hampstead , north London . |
| 18 | Lloyds Bank , which was the first to impose a levy , lost the most customers when it charged £12 for the privilege of owning its card . |
| 19 | There was a time in the history of the Liberal party when it trusted people with their own money and believed that they could make their own decisions . |
| 20 | Radius Inc warns that it expects to report a second quarter operating loss larger than its first quarter operating loss , and that second quarter revenues to March 31 will be below the $36.9m reported for the first quarter , when it lost $0.05 per share or $713,000 ; it has seen slowing demand for its Macintosh enhancement products in Europe and to a lesser extent in the US . |
| 21 | Though it produced data that permits analysis of the impact of child-spacing upon neonatal mortality , unfortunately the WFS did not provide information on fetal mortality . |
| 22 | The company dropped the bombshell as it plunged £711million into the red in the first half of the year . |
| 23 | Even if it is n't true , James 's position was an excellent stimulus for research as it forced people who would adopt an alternative position to consider very carefully how else emotions might come about . |
| 24 | German legislation prohibited the import of ‘ Cassis de Dijon ’ , a liqueur based on blackcurrant , as it required fruit liqueurs to have a minimum alcohol content of 25% . |
| 25 | He said that ‘ Every player has their price , if the offer were 2M Id have rejected it , but as it nudged 3M I felt it was a good deal for Leeds ’ . |
| 26 | He said that ‘ Every player has their price , if the offer were 2M Id have rejected it , but as it nudged 3M I felt it was a good deal for Leeds ’ . |
| 27 | Mr Sugar 's other main company interest , Tottenham Hotspur , was in demand as it climbed 14p to 103p over speculation that chief executive Terry Venables might buy Mr Sugar 's stake in the club . |
| 28 | Carlton was undeterred by HTV 's news as it jumped 6p to 754p . |