Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures . |
| 2 | Like many other coastal shipping companies it met hard times after the First World War , when motor lorries began taking the general cargoes that used to go by sea to all the little ports . |
| 3 | So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it . |
| 4 | It offended the friends and allies of the USA , especially in western Europe ; and in the Cold War years it provided splendid propaganda for her enemies in the Communist World . |
| 5 | From these figures it monitored key ratios which indicated the capital adequacy , liquidity and degree of risk for each firm . |
| 6 | DEC said that for the first time in six quarters it generated positive cash flow from operations and investments , even with restructuring activities . |
| 7 | The home authority , on the other hand , could find its funds being compulsorily diverted to services and cases it considered low priority . |
| 8 | The home authority , on the other hand , could find its funds being compulsorily diverted to services and cases it considered low priority . |
| 9 | With the micro-computers it meant different software , different machines ( at a higher price ) and different sales methods : rather large changes . |