Example sentences of "[verb] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two known meetings have so far taken place between both party leaders , with a whirlwind of protest from unionists when they issued a joint statement before the elections , while denying it reflected any form of electoral pact . |
| 2 | ‘ I expect it had some help , then , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 3 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 4 | The public analyst found it contained 14 beetles , 24 larvae and nine pupal cases , also that it had the characteristics of the Australian beetle , which attacks and infests dried food products . |
| 5 | We had to contend with some extremely high winds and found it needed extra guys to hold upright . |
| 6 | Sunnyvale , California-based MasPar Computer Corp wants us to know it shipped 13 MP-2 massively parallel machines in 1992 , calling it a ‘ faster-than-projected start-up ’ for a box introduced in October 1992 . |
| 7 | They want it kept low profile . ’ |
| 8 | Maud said that Leonora Stern believed it represented Victorian women 's fear , or any woman 's fear , of giving birth to a monstrosity . |
| 9 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success . |
| 10 | It matters not that these natives were the people who had the original rights , and Thomson 's own humanity would never let his reader forget that fact ; all he lamented , as he always did , was the passing of an old way , especially when the future replacing it felt less sound . |
| 11 | Philips Electronics NV says it sold 100,000 CD-I players in 1992 , but expects the market to mushroom in the next two years , with a doubling this year , and a trebling of that in 1994 — 600,000 in other words . |
| 12 | It says it rejected earlier offers of Fondiaria 's shares as too expensive . |
| 13 | DEC says it delayed any announcement until now so there would be meat on the bones , not just promises . |
| 14 | Praxis says it took less time to install the ANDF version of the program than the 15 minutes it takes to compile the C sources of Wingz . |
| 15 | Intel says it saw strong demand in the US and Japan , where orders rose significantly as the market was stimulated by lower personal computer prices . |
| 16 | Vicom says it incurred massive debt during the development its own proprietary visualisation line whilst at the same time taking over Sun 's products , and could n't attract the new development capital it required . |
| 17 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 18 | By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy . |
| 19 | It was bloated and heavy , and the men gathered on the deck of the boat to receive it had great difficulty lifting it out of the water . |
| 20 | Perhaps the court would have accepted it had that stipulation been explicit . |
| 21 | That Act One marriage scene — I do n't think I 've ever seen it played that way before , as a comedy number . ’ |
| 22 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |
| 23 | Yes it might I 've seen it spelt both ways . |
| 24 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |
| 25 | I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs . |
| 26 | Whichever method was used it meant long traffic holdups as the creatures went through the streets , their already frightened state heightened by a deal of cruelty on the part of many of the drovers . |
| 27 | Each one of us was beckoned over to have a go when it was my turn I rushed over and put the tanks on I then submerged It felt strange breathing under water like a fish the bubble emitted from the regulator trickled up the side of my face . |
| 28 | At 770p , Sherwood is now valued at £158.8 million compared with the £10.8 million launch price tag it had six years ago . |
| 29 | Speaking in a Belfast safe house a hooded IRA member claimed it had enough explosives and terrorists in place for a major offensive . |
| 30 | The magazine , Politis , claimed it had more evidence after the French Environment Ministry dismissed the report but adding that it was dangerous to dig in the recently closed dump because it ‘ would be like opening a tomb ’ . |