Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To extrapolate from the fact that some forms of literacy practice develop explicitness to a theory that literacy is intrinsically capable of being culture-free and therefore represents an evolutionary advance in intellectual power , as some of the writers we have been examining do , is to take literacy out of the very context that enabled it to develop explicitness . |
| 2 | Nor did it threaten London 's long-term position among the world 's main financial centres . |
| 3 | He argued that the public did not stand at the box-office window and demand dramas with happy endings or which mixed pathos and humour , nor did it demand comedy made up of ‘ slapstick ’ , ‘ gags ’ with ‘ three or so dashes of serious situation and a bit of irony to top off ’ . |
| 4 | The package itself did not control the line , nor did it tell operators and management what action to take when things went wrong . |
| 5 | The Realpolitik of Berlin detached the definition of the new Germany from Germanism — it did not include all Germans nor did it exclude non-Germans . |
| 6 | Nor did it help Ford that many of his junior officers and a good third of his rankers had seen far more fighting then he had himself . |
| 7 | Even the date of the battle was not wholly fortuitous ; nor did it lack significance for those who fought in it . |
| 8 | Nor did it need riots to provoke these swan-songs for the old traditions . |
| 9 | Nor did it assist macroeconomlc management . |
| 10 | Back at the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool , Nigel Lawson 's carefully worded oratory did little to satisfy those wanting Britain to become full members of the European Monetary System sooner rather than later , nor did it provide comfort for others claiming that interest rates had reached their zenith . |
| 11 | Nor did it allow families to get the car very close to the house as they preferred to do . |
| 12 | It had no business goodwill and was not permitted to trade ; nor did it have shareholders ; ( 5 ) in failing to take proper account of the fact that it logically followed that if a local government corporation could sue for libel in respect of its governing reputation then so too could any institution of central government ( including , for example , a government department which was a statutory corporation such as the Department of the Environment ) ; ( 6 ) in the premises in considering that there was no uncertainty or ambiguity in English law in relation to the extent to which local authorities might sue for libel . |
| 13 | It did not look at rape as a social problem nor did it have regard to the difficulties which rape poses for the criminal justice system . |
| 14 | The unconscious blackmail threat levelled at his parents — he would marry Sien unless they accepted him as he was — had n't resulted in his expulsion , but nor had it improved matters . |
| 15 | Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with . |
| 16 | When he closed the account , he transferred this to another account and used it to pay chambers ' expenses . |
| 17 | The developmentalists grabbed it and used it to make distance between the materially rich and poor nations so that very soon ‘ Third World ’ universally connoted poverty , overpopulation , disease , disorder , illiteracy , violent social upheavals and every imaginable human horror . |
| 18 | He had taken a sheet of writing paper from the desk and used it to make notes during the meeting . |
| 19 | She chewed hers and found it contained cod liver oil . |
| 20 | She mentally steeled herself for the long evening ahead , but , as it turned out , it was n't nearly as long as she had anticipated because towards the end of the evening she heard a sharp knocking on the door , and opened it to find André standing outside , a huge bunch of flowers in his arms . |
| 21 | She took out the electric beater and arranged it to beat cream , while Mrs Palichuk watched , fascinated . |
| 22 | It asked the Moldavian Supreme Soviet to review its August 1989 language law " in order to protect the interests of all nationalities " , and ordered it to adopt legislation ensuring equal rights for all citizens . |
| 23 | This further increased its authority and enabled it to keep control over events , at least for the next few months . |
| 24 | And did it make sense ? |
| 25 | The Science Museum , which owns the airfield , admitted it 's had to increase the amount it charges the Association , and said it regretted plans to pull out . |
| 26 | Last night AA Roadwatch urged drivers to take care in the icy conditions and said it anticipated problems with heavy traffic during the holiday period . |
| 27 | Ian then set Jo 's hair using the Pin-curl technique and styled it using products from the Schwarzkopf Silhouette professional range . |
| 28 | All very well , but did it mean Ferdinando would be taken with them , together with Annunciata ? |
| 29 | But did it hold menace or magic ? |