Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead it is thought Meiko will use the Fujitsu Ltd VP single-chip vector processor for floating point operations alongside the Texas Instruments Inc Viking SuperSparc for scalar operations , although Meiko has said that Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's HyperSparc will be considered once it became available ( UX No 385 ) , and that the i860 could work with the new architecture if required . |
| 2 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 3 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 4 | The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak . |
| 5 | The value of prosection was stressed since it offered three dimensional knowledge to the medical students and post-graduates and many future surgeons would be trained to dissect and explore the body through these preparations . |
| 6 | And erm you know the erm er , I , I do n't know whether it had any adjustment changes or what , but |
| 7 | Yet a regression from those principles soon occurred after it became apparent that the orderly industrial relations which were sought were not being achieved ( Levine , 1958 ; Barkin , 1980 ) . |
| 8 | It will act as it did last Friday , with determination and sensitivity . |
| 9 | Before long what has been described aptly by one penologist as a malfunction began to appear as it became evident that suspended sentences of imprisonment were being used in place of non-custodial penalties , especially probation orders and fines . |
| 10 | Unfortunately an island working day needed to be swiftly curtailed once it grew hot . |
| 11 | Although this looked worse than it might have done since it covered fourteen months instead of twelve — the result of an adjustment to a different financial year — such figures demanded a response . |
| 12 | Sadly much of the animosity generated about Cochrane and Bennett originated from within No 5 Group and a great deal I was able to counter before it reached tap-room levels , I never felt I was running with the fox because I had great feeling and admiration for both these Olympian " gores , in fact , Cochrane invited me to move to No 5 Group with him when he left No 3 Group , but I declined as I was in mid-tour . |
| 13 | Berisford formerly owned British Sugar but was forced to sell when it came unstuck with property deals in the US . |
| 14 | Göring 's popularity in particular suffered as it became evident that , whatever successes German troops were having in distant parts , as head of the Luftwaffe , he was unable to guarantee the protection of the homeland . |
| 15 | It is also , more generally , the essence of what the Barclay Report ( 1982 ) was seeking when it characterized social care planning as one of the core roles in which community social workers should be engaged . |
| 16 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 17 | The company had to halt as it became impossible to make any progress through the press of bodies . |
| 18 | Because their nasal openings were on the top of their heads they could even continue to breathe if it became necessary ( see p. 115 ) to totally submerge . |
| 19 | After that , Waits retreats into his usual ho humdrum bummed-out bluesywoozy alkie drone mode mood muzak , the sort of mozzery gushy mush your dog would make if it had vocal chords and could handle its drink . |
| 20 | As she hesitated , she glanced at the loose page to see if it offered any clue to its rightful position in the book . |
| 21 | I also asked if it affected sexual performance . |
| 22 | Once this conventional world had been established , it was easily recreated until it became traditional . |
| 23 | After the war , ‘ unfilled ’ vinyl was used because it had much less surface noise , and a few sets of unfilled vinyl 78s were made for early hi-fi buffs . |
| 24 | I wore a suit that Mary had seen in a second-hand shop in Paris and insisted I bought so that at least I had one outfit I could put on for interviews without worrying whether it looked OK or not . |
| 25 | McDaid denied any links with the IRA and withdrew after it became clear that the junior partner in the government , the Progressive Democrats ( PDs ) , would not vote for a reshuffle including him . |
| 26 | Under her direction , the squad became a very close-knit affair comprising as it did four cousins , six nephews and a younger brother ( 42 ) . |
| 27 | We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going . |
| 28 | Industry would be unwilling to invest further in recycling until it became profitable , he said . |
| 29 | I decided to leave before it got dark , first thanking the Padre and his two Breton friends for their very kind hospitality . |
| 30 | How could we decide whether it had free will or was just a robot , programmed to respond as if it were like us ? |