Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our survey rates Shell most highly for its management quality , where it took first place ( see table 3 ) . |
| 2 | Belgium , he remarked , was a state addicted to backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning , where it took 100 days just to form a government . |
| 3 | This revised proposal was reflected in E 38 , Inventories , where it attracted considerable comment , with a sizeable minority , not surprisingly , arguing for the retention of LIFO . |
| 4 | The failure of the Warsaw uprising , where it had several adherents among the Russian officers of the garrison , dealt the organization a severe blow . |
| 5 | Wheat was favoured , not merely because of its immediate importance as a basic food , but because it demanded least capital and least care , even where it meant wretched cultivations : only one-tenth of the cereal secano was farmed in regular rotations of wheat and legumes ; a quarter was cultivated only once every six or ten years . |
| 6 | The ribbon could be fed into a casting machine in another part of the building , where it cast single characters , producing a quality of type much better suited to bookwork than was a Linotype slug . |
| 7 | In the BZW forecast , Peter Thomson said the FT-SE index should be back to 2,100-2,200 by the end of this month and would at best hold its own next year but more likely fall to 1,800 , where it started this year . |
| 8 | There was a shock for the SDLP in Newry and Mourne where it lost two seats , reducing its strength to 15 . |
| 9 | There was also a shock for the SDLP in Newry and Mourne where it lost two seats , reducing its strength to 15 . |
| 10 | Chloroguanide was not itself a pyrimidine , but it was sufficiently close for it to be tested in L. casei , where it showed interesting effects , resembling some of Hitchings ' compounds . |
| 11 | She rewarded him with such a beaming smile that he took the memory of it into the surgery with him , where it stayed all morning , brightening the day for him . |
| 12 | Its platform was explicitly anti-immigration , although it denied any sympathy with neo-Nazis . |
| 13 | By 1920 it was appreciated that the Great War had brought about many changes , particularly in Europe and around the Mediterranean area ; Europe 's domination of the world had been weakened , and there was a marked decline in ‘ colonisation ’ , as well as a gradual change from ‘ British Empire ’ to ‘ British Commonwealth ’ , although it took another war to finalise that process . |
| 14 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 15 | David Clark 's committee of 25 years ago , irreverently referred to in some quarters as the ‘ Dave Clark Five ’ although it contained 13 people , took as its main brief the worsening financial position of the game consequent upon the postwar trend of falling attendances for first-class matches and declining membership of county clubs . |
| 16 | Although it achieved classic status , it did not become generally known until the late Victorian period , when Frances Hodgson Burnett [ q.v. ] , who had read the book as a child , retold part of it from memory in St Nicholas in 1887 , and the proper text was ‘ rediscovered ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Baker-Aziz meeting was duly held in Geneva on Jan. 9 ; although it lasted six hours , no progress was made . |
| 19 | In the 1950s , the government of Colonel Oscar Osorio ( 1950–6 ) passed a law prohibiting prostitution in El Salvador , although it had little effect beyond filling the prisons for a short time . |
| 20 | Oh aye aye er there was always that in the back of their mind that the the more rivets they put in per day , although it meant more money at the end of the week possibly , er it also meant that the the boat was therefore progressing or the ship was progressing that quick , that they were getting nearer the gate as the the saying went . |
| 21 | Fortunately , that family was able to put in extra money — although it meant some sacrifices , such as doing without holidays and so on — but I contend that if those two girls had come from a less fortunate background , they simply would not have been able to continue their courses in current circumstances . |
| 22 | The new year would see a disintegration of the unanimity of the DCAC 's supporters ; the committee had grave doubts about the wisdom of the PD march from Belfast to Derry , although it arranged material support and a welcoming rally for the marchers . |
| 23 | The CIA-backed contra war was an inconsequential affair in world terms , although it brought much destruction and suffering to the Nicaraguans themselves . |
| 24 | The town has many picturesque corners and interesting buildings although it sustained much damage by fire in 1799 when the town was fought over by French , Austrian and Russian armies . |
| 25 | But a report issued last year by the National Radiological Protection Board concluded that although it encouraged further research , there was no reason to link power cables with cancer . |
| 26 | The house was insured for £64,000 , although it transpired that insurance for a completed house and contents had been issued , and the house was not in fact covered . |
| 27 | In 1976 the Layfield Report , Local Government Finance , suggested that a local income tax should supplement the rates , although it listed many difficulties associated with such a venture . |
| 28 | The opposition SDPJ failed to repeat its 1989 triumph , although it won 22 seats and maintained its pre-election strength of 69 upper house members . |
| 29 | Although it required official sanction to perform intersexing , Roirbak doubted whether Jahsaxa was careless enough not to have seen to that . |
| 30 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |