Example sentences of "[adj] it [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I believe , in this it 's brought a lot of thing in this town there small town like this . |
| 2 | In one way the length of the history was a good thing as I have benefited in the end from the latest surgical techniques available in London , and although I still have to be careful it has made a tremendous difference to my life . |
| 3 | Since the festival began in 1979 it has attracted a growing band of support . |
| 4 | When crossing by boat from West Loch Tarbert to Port Ellen on one of my early Journeys to Islay I was talking with an elderly minister who was coming to visit a crofter brother who was ill , and during our conversation said that it appeared to me that for a small island with a population of about four thousand it had produced an unusually large proportion of ministers , ship captains , marine engineers and doctors and asked him why he thought that was so . |
| 5 | Ever since Queen Victoria bought the estate in 1848 it has had a special place in the affections of the royal family . |
| 6 | The uniform he was wearing seemed to have been assembled from outfits designed to fit several very different people : the sleeves were too long and the neck too wide , while the cap was so small it had left a pink welt around his forehead . |
| 7 | Since 1966 it has operated a set of rules known as the ‘ stabilizer ’ which has regulated the behaviour of tour operators and travel agents in the inclusive tour industry . |
| 8 | He said that when the Government realised it faced defeat on amendment 27 it had produced a second legal opinion . |
| 9 | And there 's some that are er non-famous it 's got a load of in Hamlet . |
| 10 | Since 1986 it has offered a wide range of programmes in the fields of management and technology with the Graduate School of Business Administration taking the lead role in these activities . |
| 11 | If sterling were at higher interest rates than the US$ , then clearly this represents a cost to the bank in that it has foregone a return in sterling better than that available in US$ , so that exchange risk can be hedged in the way described . |
| 12 | The government announced that on April 15 it had arrested a group of soldiers and retired army officers who had been planning to overthrow the government . |
| 13 | Since the early 1960s it has undergone a transformation as great as that of the nineteenth century and has become a new settlement with virtually no connection with agriculture or coal . |
| 14 | At the legislative elections in 1990 it had advocated a strongly right-wing economic programme . |
| 15 | Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri said that Egypt had emerged as " the biggest loser " economically from the Gulf War : in the 10 months from August 1990 it had lost an estimated US$20,000 million in export earnings , workers ' remittances and earnings from tourism . |
| 16 | By the early 1980s it had become a matter of faith . |
| 17 | Since 1988 it has had a working arrangement with the Tokyo Stock Exchange ( TSE ) which allows the TSE 's Topix stock index and Japanese Government Bond futures contracts to be traded on the CBoT . |
| 18 | Oh , oh this is going to be lovely it 's got a magic button |
| 19 | At last it has achieved a respectable measure of unity at most levels of the party . |
| 20 | The birthday party was of a kind which Cecilia would have wondered at , had she been invited to it , for although a few of Bienvida 's classmates were present in its early stages , by seven it had become a celebration for the grown-ups . |