Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ramblers ' Association said it welcomed any measures that allowed more people to walk in the countryside , and assistant director David Baskine said : ‘ It is important that the proposals will not offer payment to farmers who own land where public access is already allowed . ’ |
| 2 | One local radio contractor said it seemed unreasonable that the Home Office should be deciding between two competing claims on the spectrum when it was responsible for running one of them . |
| 3 | The show came under attack before it even opened because one critic said it contained erotic love scenes , a roller skating comic and a simulated sex act . |
| 4 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 5 | While moral suasion had been favoured in the War ( in preference to rationing ) as a means of restricting domestic demand , and had for a time been partially successful , as peace returned it lost much of its impact . |
| 6 | Montague managed to convince Mortimer of his innocence , but his narrow escape did not discourage the king , and when the coup came it had all the appearance of being carefully planned . |
| 7 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 8 | The public analyst found it contained 14 beetles , 24 larvae and nine pupal cases , also that it had the characteristics of the Australian beetle , which attacks and infests dried food products . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , as the month progressed it became clear that the scandal involved opposition party members as well as members of the LDP . |
| 10 | Most reviews have identified administrative deficiencies — one scrutiny found it cost 90 to administer 100 of woodland grant — and some have led to major changes ( such as the establishment of a non-Defence central purchasing unit : see Government Purchasing : A Review of Government Contract and Procurement Procedures , 1984 ) . |
| 11 | Maud said that Leonora Stern believed it represented Victorian women 's fear , or any woman 's fear , of giving birth to a monstrosity . |
| 12 | And there was a Yorkshire firm covered it covered that road tarmac or something they said , It 'll last twenty years . |
| 13 | ‘ The Doctor said it transmitted mental power … . ’ |
| 14 | Speaking in a Belfast safe house a hooded IRA member claimed it had enough explosives and terrorists in place for a major offensive . |
| 15 | The company said it shipped 50,000 revenue systems , a first-quarter record up 16% , including 13,000 Sparcstation 2s , 15,000 IPXs and 12,000 assorted . |
| 16 | The Abingdon based company said it wanted Dowty to concentrate on aerospace . |
| 17 | Friends of the Earth said it proved Nuclear Electric " lives in never-never land " . |
| 18 | A student of mine in a Spenser class which read A Present View suggested it seemed peculiar to be reading a piece by an author commonly hailed as one of the great writers of the English Renaissance putting forward views which makes him a type of war criminal within a twentieth-century perspective . |