Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At another level it raised confidence in national identity and gave support to social science studies of Japan which stressed the way its unique cultural heritage underpinned economic success . |
| 2 | As a beneficiary of this body it received £140,000 this financial year . |
| 3 | Earlier this week it asked Crest Homes , the developers of a new primary school for the area , to think again about the proposed site . |
| 4 | This week it introduced HP Distributed Smalltalk , claiming it to be the first complete implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification for distributed computing . |
| 5 | In this respect it showed concern for the welfare of all men , and consequently it can be said that satyāgraha whenever it is implemented involves sarvodaya . |
| 6 | For some reason it made Maggie think of silent music , each flicker a celestial note . |
| 7 | This seemed to me a perfectly reasonable statement , but for some reason it set Nigel off laughing . |
| 8 | Earlier this year it spent $1bn ( £620m ) on ordering 300,000 personal computers from West Germany . |
| 9 | The Three Kings made the final 8 of the competition last year , this year it won hands down after seperate visits from 5 judges , arriving and leaving unannounced . |
| 10 | During this time it grew dark , the darkness seeming to rise from the river to make it one with the sky . |
| 11 | This time it caught Millie across the wrist , and when she reacted by rising from her seat in an effort to leave the room , she found herself thrust back with such force that her head bobbed on her shoulders . |
| 12 | At this stage it lacked coherence , but was made directly relevant to local conditions . |
| 13 | Either way it made sense to maintain some degree of detachment . |
| 14 | On each occasion it took time to warm a new ball . |
| 15 | The longer they stayed , the more chance it gave Bishop Jon 's army to arrive . |
| 16 | At the same time it diverted attention away from the underlying structural explanations of society and economy , as part of a general process of ‘ mystification ’ whereby surface manifestations are confused for root causes . |
| 17 | At the same time it gave encouragement to local amenity groups to press for improvements . |
| 18 | The idea that energy had a quantum nature married neatly enough with the view that light was a wave motion , but at the same time it set people thinking in terms of particles once more . |