Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | When he was jilted after five years together it had a devastating effect . |
2 | And so it took a great deal of time erm , in the nineteen thirties , for farmers to cease production . |
3 | It was in front of 72,000 people in the Stadium , half a billion people around the world and so it took an incredible amount of getting hold of myself to do it . |
4 | So it received a full pharmacological and toxicological examination . |
5 | I think David had one or two of the songs off ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ way before and so it became a natural progression to do that . |
6 | So it became a twice-yearly event by necessity , rather than design . |
7 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
8 | Thus it provided an underpinning for the social democratic viewpoint in political life . |
9 | Elsewhere it proved a negative variable , even in areas with a sizeable Jewish presence such as Leeds or Manchester . |
10 | An inquest jury at Buckingham was told that a 3 year old boy may have dropped the baby on the floor , but yesterday it returned an open verdict after the Coroner Rodney Corner warned that the evidence was contradictory . |
11 | An inquest jury at Buckingham was told that a 3 year old boy may have dropped the baby on the floor , but yesterday it returned an open verdict after the Coroner Rodney Corner warned that the evidence was contradictory . |
12 | This discovery gave fresh impetus to research aimed at developing new drugs which , like aspirin , would relieve pain and control inflammation , and also it provided a new basis for testing candidate compounds . |
13 | This not only involved the SCCs in vocational guidance and after-care in a formal sense prior to the creation of juvenile labour exchanges , but also it provided an influential role for the ASEA , certainly for its practice . |
14 | Germany now had its separate peace with Russia , and three weeks later it launched a new Western offensive . |
15 | Now it felt a whole lot like being got rid of . |
16 | Up on Albert Hill in all likelihood its operations were on the banks of the eponymous river where the Cleveland Industrial Estate is now it had a massive and profitable operation covering 22 acres , employing 1,000 men and boys and working 90 furnaces . |
17 | But now it included a growing number of raznochintsy , men of different ranks , the children of humbler officials , the clergy , the lower urban estates . |
18 | Overall it offered a strategic solution to many of London 's problems — though , as it was realized later , only if the world would stand still long enough for desirable change to be effected without being overtaken by other events . |
19 | Originally it had a flat plaster ceiling , but by the 1850s the bookcases on this lower level had become completely full , and in 1859 the roof of the building was raised and the barrel-vaulted ceiling and gallery bookcases which you now see were constructed . |
20 | Today it launched a new campaign . |
21 | On the teletext today it had a few words from Fergie saying that he reckoned that the no. of points they need to win the league is 84 . |
22 | Such places still exist but even when tackling them years ago it required a full team of professionals to make any worthwhile impression on the rabbits within . |
23 | Here it had a devastating effect on seagrass beds and mangrove swamps . |
24 | I always use this kind of music as part of the test sequence ; here it had an extraordinary naturalness , a quite seamless integration from bass to soprano , which one immediately recognises as true . |
25 | Anyway , when Alan suggested that he should set up in practice here it seemed a splendid idea . ’ |
26 | Frequently in trouble were ‘ foreigners ’ from East Looe who would cross the river to steal soil from the common ; presumably it had a good name for fertility . |
27 | When plugged in , a tongue would stick out of the apparatus ; additionally it contained an electric device that was intended to block television reception in the immediate area . |
28 | Thence it described a great arc through Fenny Compton and Byfield to rejoin the other road at Cold Higham ( Crawford ) . |
29 | Sometimes it needed a special tool . |
30 | Sometimes it thematized a heightened irrationality , at others it slid into hyperrationality , while at still others it seems to escape the logic of these categories altogether . |