Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a it was a very big bakery it had three floors and on the bottom floor was that 's where they done the bread and rolls . |
| 2 | With a boat neck it had short sleeves , and Kate bit her lip as she realised it was going to have a pretty powerful impact . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It did so not only through the stringent processing of applications and the guidance it offered individual institutions , but also through more general analysis of the problems faced by institutions making the transition from ‘ monotechnic ’ to diversified colleges . |
| 5 | On the revenue side it meant such devices as changing the weighting of the staff mix so that a greater proportion of unqualified staff were employed than might ideally have been desired . |
| 6 | In 1758 he published a comprehensive pamphlet on this industry , and when later reproduced in the Dictionary it occupied seven pages of text and a further seven of illustration . |
| 7 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
| 8 | Against the dollar it lost 1.9 cents to finish at $1.5585 . |
| 9 | Football had been a traditionally rowdy and sometimes violent game , but as a regulated spectator sport it provided novel opportunities for conflicts between the players , referees and fans , and there is a well documented history of pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and fighting between rival fans throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century and into the new century . |
| 10 | ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown . |
| 11 | A future bishop , Launcelot Fleming , went to the lectures and was enthralled ; but the class ran a sweepstake ; if Hoskyns said theme it scored one mark , if he said ultimate theme it scored ten marks . |
| 12 | At one point it boasted 13 members who were admirals — not many clubs in the world can stage an annual match called Admirals v The Rest . |
| 13 | A good hotel to stay at : apart from the excellence of its discreet service it had two exits . |
| 14 | In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part . |
| 15 | In the early twentieth-century it had two churches , one shop , no omnibus or train service , no gas or water supply and no electricity ( the Rectory had a private generator ) . |
| 16 | For a while it organised mass meetings outside Eastbourne and Rye and sought to push up wages during the harvest season . |
| 17 | A month later , PW made a breakthrough : it gained access to Mr Naqvi 's personal filing room where , among 6,000 files , it found the evidence it needed major customers colluding with BCCI in the falsification of accounting through the use of nominee arrangements , hold harmless arrangements and payment of fees to individuals to ensure cooperation , as well as proof of links between BCCI and the International Credit and Investment Corporation group . |
| 18 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 19 | THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city . |
| 20 | Last week it announced first-quarter contributions of £11.1m from CMB — the result of the £900m merger between Metal Box and the French Carnaud company . |
| 21 | The pace of change was desultory , and the district only began work on contracting under the impetus of the neighbouring district it provided acute services for . |
| 22 | But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water . |
| 23 | Chased by police vehicles and a helicopter it rammed three cars as it careered down the wrong side of city centre roads . |
| 24 | In the first month of its operation it received 280 inquiries ; but commenting on this figure , a spokesman said : ‘ We expect a dramatic increase in inquiries once head teachers come back from holiday and examine the information we have sent them ’ . |
| 25 | In its first year of operation it made 25,000 cars and trucks . |
| 26 | That was bad enough , but when he told my daughter it started three weeks after they married and lasted until three months ago , she threw him out and she 's changed the locks of the house and says she will divorce him . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | According to the patent ( Us 235 199 ) , when the chopped light beam was focused onto the diaphragm it created sympathetic movements which could be heard as sound . |
| 29 | After reduction and lemmatisation it comprised 2,344 lemmata . |
| 30 | At least five shots had now been fired from Foster 's Police Positive , and being a revolver it held six rounds . |