Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wake , who has taken over from Ron Aitken , said one of BAIE 's strengths was its diversity and it made sound practice , as well as fun , to tap into the network . |
| 2 | We got out over and we had n't got twenty yards when the flares went up and it became undiluted hell |
| 3 | News of his work with the handicapped also leaked out at the centre and it became common knowledge that he was using the OBEX swimming-pool . |
| 4 | As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals . |
| 5 | and it said genuine goat . |
| 6 | I looked up the teletext and it said full squad for Manchester United . |
| 7 | It was inspired by Brendan Foster and it brought international athletics to the town and put it on the map . |
| 8 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 9 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
| 10 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
| 11 | I find that kind of back-door pressure disgraceful and it caused great concern to many people in my local association . |
| 12 | [ 2 ] The dream vision convention was employed by the Middle English writers for such reasons ; [ 3 ] and it enjoyed great popularity . |
| 13 | Law meant the right ordering of society on earth and it reflected Divine Law . |
| 14 | Their relationship was further strained when Wolfgang threw security to the winds to go to Vienna , and it suffered irreparable damage when a new and more powerful force — in the form of a prospective bride — entered Wolfgang 's life . |
| 15 | In Washington , the Combined Anglo-American Chiefs of Staff Committee was reactivated , and it proposed massive rearmament programmes for both countries . |
| 16 | Yet the Commission could only do what member states allowed it to do , and it lost real power to other institutions which protected national interests . |
| 17 | Eugénie loved the sea and was a strong swimmer even though at Biarritz she found that ‘ the sea was very cold and it required great strength of mind to get in ’ . |
| 18 | It was a very hard job holding everything together and it required tremendous dedication from everyone concerned . |
| 19 | This meant that the guest lists had to be scrutinized with great care and it required considerable awareness on the part of Eugénie to be able to decide who would match with whom . |
| 20 | As far as I know , nobody noticed and it remained Labour Party policy for years afterwards . |
| 21 | The short cloak had three advantages over the coat : it need not be tailored and so was available ‘ off the peg ’ ; it was more fashionable ; and it allowed unhindered access to the sword . |
| 22 | Autumn became winter and it turned steely cold . |
| 23 | The Continent , though devastated by war , was still of enormous significance , a centre of technologically-advanced industrial production , with a large population and it exerted colonial control over much of Africa and Asia . |
| 24 | But it produced critical evidence about how different designs of tax would hit marginal seats and heartland Tory ones . |
| 25 | It was nothing really radical in terms of modern design — even apart from Malcolm having adapted it from a picture — but it had great presence . |
| 26 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
| 27 | Designed for office dictation use , this machine followed Edison 's preferred method of using electricity for the motor , but it had acoustic recording and reproduction . |
| 28 | His goal was a gem for the Seagulls — but it left United manager Alex Ferguson fuming : ‘ There was a slackness right through our side — only Danny Wallace played as though he meant it . ’ |
| 29 | This was not a new idea , but it attracted increasing support from the 1880s , due partly to the failure of alternative solutions to unemployment and to the apparent unlikelihood of more work being generated in the towns . |
| 30 | It enrolled less than 50 members but it attracted active support from up to 2,000 sympathizers . |