Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Such a system was effectively harnessed by the energy and skill of Thomas Cromwell ; but deprived of his control after 1540 it became corrupt , inefficient , and unpopular .
2 Thus the courts were clearly subservient to the commands of the Communist Party , although it should be noted that the degree of independence available to the courts has varied over time : in the 1930s it was minimal , but after 1956 it became greater .
3 After 1988 it increased each year to 1526 in 1991 ( table II ) .
4 During the summer months of 1986 it became clear that this approach enjoyed strong backing from the United States and Britain .
5 The actions of the central authorities , in the event , served to rally local opinion still more closely around the nationalist leaderships , and when the issue of full independence was put to the republican populations in the spring of 1991 it received overwhelming endorsement The Lithuanian vote , in February , produced a majority of over 90 per cent on an 84 per cent turnout ; in Latvia and Estonia , in March , there were majorities for independence of 74 and 78 per cent on a similar turnout .
6 For an exciting moment at the beginning of 1918 it seemed possible that the pacifists might push Labour into collision with a Government still adamant that nothing short of overwhelming military victory could provide the basis for peace .
7 In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 .
8 About the middle of 1942 it became evident that in order to make the night bombing raids over Germany more effective , some form of air marking would have to be developed to guide the aircraft more accurately to their targets .
9 In the summer and autumn of 1989 it seemed possible that this might no longer be true .
10 At the beginning of 1989 it remained uncertain whether this unenthusiastic recognition would survive the vicissitudes of negotiation .
11 By the end of 1988 it had foreign debts of $100.4 billion , of which $70.6 billion came from 600 commercial banks .
12 By the standards of 1961-or , perhaps , today — it was radical stuff , by the style of 1967 it seemed passé .
13 The party addressed much of its effort to workers and it enrolled few peasant members , yet the peasant question was central to its programme and during the revolution of 1905 it exerted considerable influence in the All-Russian Peasants ' Union .
14 In view of waning Axis fortunes in the summer of 1944 it seemed curious that when the Spanish Foreign Minister , Jordana , died in August he was replaced by Spain 's ambassador to occupied France , José Felix Lequerica Erquiza , a man of known Axis sympathies .
15 During 1902 it became evident that larger capacity cars would be needed for the main Norbury — Purley line and fifteen were ordered , ten to belong to the Corporation and five to the B.E.T .
16 For many it seemed expedient and not seriously damaging to British interests to give the Soviets the benefit of many doubts — at least for the time being .
17 During 1978 it became apparent that the existing methods of storing and handling personnel information were inadequate and in need of urgent review .
18 The invention of printing , a key technical stage in the technology of distribution , had remarkable early effects in that it made technical distribution much easier but in conditions of relatively unaltered social distribution .
19 In fact Mr Hingston found a slightly unusual account in that it had instant access so long as withdrawals were made by post .
20 And then Mr then erm dismissed my concerns for affordable supply in that it had all been said before .
21 The inflation was also a good thing in that it produced all the contents of the universe quite literally out of nothing .
22 During and Spencer 's study differs from earlier ones in which microdialysis was used in that it involved chronic monitoring ( up to 16 days ) in conscious patients .
23 More significantly , however , the package departed from recent Republican budgets in that it abandoned any prospect of achieving a balanced budget in the medium term .
24 In 1986 it employed 670 people and shipped around US $500 million of systems .
25 In 1886 it published two stout volumes by Edmund Gurney , Frederic Myers and Frank Podmore on Phantasms of the Living .
26 ( In 1980 it averaged 28 per cent of family income . )
27 Its original membership only included those hiring tools and equipment , but in 1980 it created two new divisions which allowed companies hiring catering and audio visual equipment to join .
28 In 771 it seemed likely that Desiderius would join forces with Carloman against Charles , but in December of that year , the younger Frankish king died .
29 In 1925 it became used partly as the school and partly as the village hall .
30 In this it surpassed all that Lanfranc had been able to achieve even at the height of his influence in 1072 .
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