Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This central finding of the study was intensely controversial since it implied , firstly , that the USSR showed signs of fundamental weakness and was less of a ‘ threat ’ and , secondly , it appeared to run counter to the view of some econometricians that developing countries , especially those purchasing advanced foreign technology in large quantities , must eventually catch up . |
| 2 | Bagnall 's story of godnose had evidently been rather badly mutilated before it reached him . |
| 3 | The middle of the passage was , however , rather different since it concerned a motorcyclist 's deliberations about the nature of empiricism , and it was considerably more difficult to understand . |
| 4 | A little embarrassed because it looked as though she had been prying , Meredith murmured , ‘ I 'm not much of a cook . ’ |
| 5 | Outside Europe the struggle in the sugar islands was less destructive than it had been 50 or 60 years earlier . |
| 6 | Constance could not decide whether or not his diffidence sprang from fear or indifference , and she found it puzzling that someone as confident as Nicky in every other area of his life should be so timid when it came to love . |
| 7 | Even so , the decision of the 19th Palestine National Council in November 1988 to take this highly accommodationist road was not an easy one , and was only possible because it had become apparent that the world now recognized that no substantive peace negotiations were likely to materialize without formal PLO participation . |
| 8 | Yet the Berlin settlement was less stable than it looked . |
| 9 | Although the influence of Cubism on the German painters was less direct than it had been in the development of Futurism ( the work of Delaunay which the Germans most admired , for instance , was no longer really Cubist at all ) , unlike the Italians the Germans made no attempt to disguise their interest in the movement , and several of the artists of the Blaue Reiter actually thought of themselves as Cubist painters . |
| 10 | Her step was much lighter than it had been the previous day , but when she saw that her inquisitor was n't the Obersturmfuhrer , her heart sank . |
| 11 | And animal minds , a fortiori , do not engage in this sort of computation ( which is why the Punch cartoon would have been less funny if it had shown a human fisherman ) . |
| 12 | But knowledge develops unevenly ; Dewey 's luck was not so conspicuous when it came to , say , radio engineering , where relatively simple new subjects end up with a classification symbol of twelve digits or more . |
| 13 | Secondly , the raising of the school leaving age in 1947 meant that the difference between types of secondary schooling was not so marked as it had been . |
| 14 | John Stevenson feels that this urban migration was important in restructuring the population of Britain , although Glynn and Oxborrow argue that this internal migration was less marked than it had been in the nineteenth century — being about one third of its former level . |
| 15 | How could I have got it so wrong when it mattered so much ? |
| 16 | Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago . |
| 17 | Bedford was the only new earl created by Edward III after his family settlement in 1362 , and his patronage of the nobility was markedly less generous than it had been in the first two decades of his reign . |
| 18 | — Edwardian working-class sport as a whole was less violent than it had been a half-century before . |
| 19 | I would not have minded the motion tonight quite so much if it had been given an honest title , such as the General Election ( Clearing the Decks ) Motion , or whatever title the Leader of the House wanted to give it . |
| 20 | Furthermore the 1951 French elections had brought a considerable number of Gaullists into the National Assembly who opposed EDC , not so much because it meant arming German soldiers , but because it would ‘ surrender ’ the command of the French Army to a supranational institution . |
| 21 | Public prosecutor Andrei Makarov declared afterwards that it had been significant " not so much because it punished Ostashvili , but because it brought to light the forces standing behind this small figure and exposed the fascism which is growing in society " . |
| 22 | Beating Malta was one thing , in so much as it sustained the national team 's hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals . |
| 23 | It did n't hurt so much as it did with my Dad passing away . |
| 24 | It is clear , however , that in this case the contracting company felt extremely nervous when it found that representatives of a safety committee had gone straight from the employer to the ultimate operator in the field . |
| 25 | The decor , like the dress of those outside , was simpler — the design of chairs and table less extravagant than it had been . |
| 26 | In many ways I was greatly relieved as it had become obvious to me that he was n't well . |
| 27 | It may seem also that each vassal could only have one lord : otherwise the bond would be less personal than it purported to be , and the vassal might be involved in a serious conflict of loyalty . |
| 28 | ‘ It was all a lot less real than it looked . |
| 29 | But I think John we should point out that it was , it was only unsuccessful because it turned out not to be a sewerage problem . |
| 30 | However , she fell asleep at last , and Breeze took this to mean that the burn must be less serious than it appeared . |