Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it was one of the great merits of manufacturing to the early eighteenth-century observer Daniel Defoe that it brought increased employment and greater prosperity to a district compared with those which remained wholly dependent on agriculture . |
| 2 | In fact it was already a quality of Britten 's music before Grimes that it said new things with material which , on closer inspection , often turned out to be surprisingly familiar and straightforward . |
| 3 | But for all his troubles Stephen , an amiable and gallant king , had managed to hold on to England and it took three strange twists of fortune to transform the situation . |
| 4 | He was also said to have pledged support for South Korea if it proved necessary to apply for UN sanctions against the North over the issue of nuclear inspections [ see also p. 38818-19 ] . |
| 5 | The Town Development Act , 1952 , did not apply to Scotland and it became necessary to cope with Glasgow 's housing problem by means of a second New Town . |
| 6 | Bristol Crown Court has heard how Mrs Lorraine Hurkett , 26 , and her daughters Sharon , four , and Lisa , two , died after being struck by Flook 's Vauxhall Nova when it jumped red lights . |
| 7 | This will result in a narrowing of the range of costs which were given by Touche Ross when it costed four alternative options for single-tier councils . |
| 8 | He enjoyed a good relationship with Acheson and it suited both men for Dulles to be closely involved in policy formulation : Acheson because it would diminish at least some of the acrimony in Congress and Dulles because he wished to consolidate his record so that he could become Secretary of State in the next Republican administration . |
| 9 | ‘ We had looked at the agent in March and it seemed OK , ’ spokesman John Garner says . |
| 10 | As revealed exclusively in TODAY , yesterday , the £100 million contract was awarded to multinational Alcatel after it undercut British firm Westinghouse . |
| 11 | The Russians for their part promised to recognize the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary when it seemed appropriate and Austria agreed not to oppose the union of Bulgaria and eastern Roumelia , if circumstances brought it about . |
| 12 | On July 24 the Djibouti government rejected suggestions by Ahmed Ali that it sought territorial expansion at the expense of Somaliland . |
| 13 | Vietnam informed the UK that it required adequate Western financial assistance for resettlement . |
| 14 | oh I like the ones you buy , but I , my mother used to make one every Sunday and it tasted horrible , tasted eggy |
| 15 | Robert Byrd ( West Virginia ) , the appropriations committee chairman , came under attack from Nunn because it allowed unauthorized " pork-barrel " programmes to be funded and because no money was given to restart production of the F-117 A fighter , a stealth aircraft Nunn called the " star " of the Gulf war . |
| 16 | Even more sharply , it is impossible for the majority of people to be other than black in South Africa as it became impossible to be other than Jewish for Jews in Nazi Germany . |
| 17 | A spokeswoman for the album said : ‘ Last year there was a compilation charity record released to coincide with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and it sold 100,000 copies . |
| 18 | The operation was running smoothly as the yacht rounded the North Foreland when it seemed certain that a landing would be made somewhere in the Thames Estuary . |
| 19 | Haslam learned the hard way how to handle such a traumatic situation and how to some extent to play God when it became necessary to select the people who had to go . |
| 20 | Although to be fair neither was the East End while it remained full of such people as the Trumpers and Shorrocks . |
| 21 | There was a shock for the SDLP in Newry and Mourne where it lost two seats , reducing its strength to 15 . |
| 22 | There was also a shock for the SDLP in Newry and Mourne where it lost two seats , reducing its strength to 15 . |
| 23 | A spokesman for Rothmans , who have factories in Darlington and Spennymoor , said : ‘ We are a major employer in County Durham and it seemed natural to support the team as it sets off on a new challenge as a first-class county . |
| 24 | We need a kind of Marshall plan which will bring to those poor suffering countries aid such as was brought to continental Europe when it lay prostrate at the end of the second world war . |
| 25 | This is the view cogently expressed by David Holbrook and it had many supporters among numbers in the National Association of Teachers of English . |
| 26 | It was performed at The Lincoln Centre in New York and it got great reviews . |
| 27 | DeFries began to build his MainMan empire in New York and it became obvious it was n't always in support of what David was doing . |
| 28 | It was inspired by Brendan Foster and it brought international athletics to the town and put it on the map . |
| 29 | It was raining when her flight arrived at Heathrow and it rained all the way back to her flat in Islington . |
| 30 | Jared and Mary Tunstall had arrived at last in London , summoned by Orrin when it became apparent that Sally-Anne could not be traced . |