Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Now India was an extremely poor country in nineteen fifty and still is , yet it had six times as many tractors per agricultural acre as China . |
| 62 | The slide-car was as old as history yet it had one advantage : the farmer could carry loads on gradients where it would be dangerous to take a wheeled cart . |
| 63 | The outbreak of war with Spain soon removed even the façade of trade as its main purpose , yet it had royal support and between two and three thousand shareholders . |
| 64 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 65 | Yet it devoted more space to a rival attraction at the London School of Economics that same evening , Britain 's first teach-in ; the subject , the Vietnam War . |
| 66 | She pulled the white cord so tight it cut red weals into the white flesh . |
| 67 | Certainly it provoked wide media interest which continues today , and it remains a highly emotive issue . |
| 68 | Therefore it took some time to penetrate the Boardrooms of British industry , because many of the early headhunters did not really speak the businessmen 's language . |