Example sentences of "[art] [adj] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 190s it seemed intolerable to the then bishop of Rome , Victor , that the churches in Asia Minor celebrated Easter on a different date , and to the distress of many he threatened excommunication on those who did not adopt the Roman date . |
| 2 | During the 1970s it became clear that adult education was mainly serving the needs of well educated and socially advantaged members of our society . |
| 3 | With the latter it becomes possible to add your own subtitles to a video programme . |
| 4 | By the 1780s it had twelve employees ; and complaints against its interference with the correspondence of private citizens figured in a number of the cahiers presented to the States-General in 1789 . |
| 5 | Using the Macintosh 's mouse-driven user interface to the full it allows complete tyros to become publishers almost overnight . |
| 6 | In the eighties it became clear that the social and ethical consequences of this state of affairs could be catastrophic . |
| 7 | From the above it seems clear that the following principles are established : 1 . |
| 8 | If the weight of the bird and the lift is the same it remains static . |
| 9 | By the 1880s it had three main departments of this kind : Eastern , Western and American ( the last also covering China , Japan and Siam ) . |
| 10 | Before 1848 it had seemed for a moment that its crisis of transition ( see The Age of Revolution , p. 304 ) might also prove to be its final crisis , at least in England , but in the 1850s it became clear that its major period of growth was only just beginning . |
| 11 | There were many examples of species occupying territories separated by wide expanses of ocean , and in the 1850s it became fashionable to invoke prehistoric land-bridges to explain the migrations . |
| 12 | In the 1670s it became clear that this was not the case and that the English really did intend to have a network of trade among all English possessions to give the colonies a safe if restricted market in England and to allow England — and London in particular — the whole re-export trade from the entire empire . |
| 13 | Because according to the best it hurts all the way . |
| 14 | In the 1960s it became apparent that a revision of the features was needed , and the new set was introduced in Chomsky and Halle ( 1968 ) , pp.293–329 , rather pretentiously called ‘ The Universal Set of Phonetic Features ’ . |
| 15 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
| 16 | In the 1980s it became apparent that an increasing number of the senior jobs were handled by executive search and this increased during the decade until the late 1980s , when 80% of all senior jobs in the UK sourced outside the company were covered by the search firms . |
| 17 | At present we do n't know the exact details of how it works , but towards the end of the 1980s it became apparent that once that signal does get to the nucleus , what happens next in any process of cell plasticity and growth — a step first detected in rapidly dividing cancerous cells , but soon recognized to be a rather universal mechanism — is the activation of a group of ‘ immediate early genes ’ . |
| 18 | During the 1980s it bought Marine Midland , a commercial bank based in upstate New York ; Carroll , McEntee & McGinley ( CM&M ) , a primary dealer in American Treasury bonds ; and James Capel , a London firm of stockbrokers . |