Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commissioner for Agriculture it became clear to him that the task ahead was not going to be easy . |
| 2 | Before phylloxera , it had not been necessary to prune and train , although vine training systems were widely practised — after phylloxera it became essential . |
| 3 | There was one girl she 'd erm she 'd burnt her leg right down the front of her leg er on the bone in the front of her leg and er her mother just wrapped up something an old stocking I think she put in it , and of course it went bad did n't it . |
| 4 | Of course it felt nice , what did you expect ? |
| 5 | Yes yes yes when when when I grew older , of course it took all the men When er you know one would b the the whole lot would be going together you know . |
| 6 | By assuming the political economic circumstances of this displacement as given , of course it seemed natural to the colonial administration that the condition of environmental deterioration was the fault of the cultivators themselves . |
| 7 | It had never been done before , but I had this premonition , and of course it proved true . ’ |
| 8 | Because of the poor response to gluten free diet and the presence of lymphoma it seemed reasonable to consider that the malabsorption was as a result of an enteropathy associated with the lymphoma ( EATCL ) rather than simple coeliac disease . |
| 9 | Since it involved a fresh assessment of wealth it encountered some hostility . |
| 10 | The hull was unrecognisable as such ; half out of water it became unidentifiable debris . |
| 11 | Out of control it caused dreadful havoc , but when it ran smoothly and sweetly it not only modified life 's aridity but added a pleasing dimension to the view , while Lydia , at present , was using it only to make mud pies . |
| 12 | In the course of argument it became apparent that there was a potential issue as to the precise causal nexus between the acts and omissions alleged in the statement of claim and the physical consequences of those acts and omissions . |
| 13 | From these sorts of consideration it became clear that light is made up of lots of particles . |
| 14 | At its worst it may have been a parasitic racket representing only itself to the detriment of all , but on the larger canvas of society it gave political power to a narrow group of substantial landowners in loose alliance with merchant princes and the small towns which returned members to Parliament . |
| 15 | In its first year of operation it made 25,000 cars and trucks . |
| 16 | After a lot of effort it wriggled most of one arm free . |
| 17 | Since the DFR was not a document of title , but merely a receipt and notice of shipment it did little to assure the consignee or bona fide purchaser of the goods that the shipper would not resell or reroute the goods in transit . |
| 18 | But in the conversational recordings , the speed at times was often averaging 400 , and for fragments of utterance it approached 500 . |
| 19 | Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries . |
| 20 | But in meeting with Kosygin it became clear to Razak that the Soviet Union would prefer its own larger collective security agreement , which would embrace Japan , Pakistan and India as well as the smaller states . |
| 21 | With time it became clear that the new region was too distant from Tornsk to be controlled with ease . |
| 22 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 23 | I stand up and brush my coat down just in case it got dirty with me sitting on the ground . |
| 24 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 25 | In addition it followed Roman Law on rape . |
| 26 | He also involved a religious foundation — the Charterhouse — in his scheme ( although it appears that in practice it played little part ) and wanted his Master to be a Scholar of Eton or of Winchester ( if such could be found ) and to be appointed on the recommendation of the Provosts of Eton College and of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 27 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 28 | Despite its apparent relativism , in practice it defined alternative centres of cultural authority primarily in terms of their difference from the norm of English culture , not in their uniqueness and their discontinuities . |
| 29 | Its inclusion in the categories of capital murder had originally been defended by the Government on the grounds that the presence of a gun was an indication of a pre-meditated offence , but in practice it proved impossible to maintain the distinction between deliberate killings committed with a gun , or a knife or other weapon . |
| 30 | In winter it grew dark and fed on the sap in trees , or the blood of animals . |