Example sentences of "[subord] it [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From here , the Westbury Brook flows on through the meadows , towards the Severn , where it once powered Severn Mill , on the river bank . |
| 2 | The study 's starting point was a UN forecast that the world 's population will reach around 11.5 billion by the end of the next century , although it also took account of upper forecasts which suggest figures of 12.5 billion by 2050 and 28 billion by 2150 . |
| 3 | Sir Maurice reportedly decided to reduce MI6 's role in Ireland , although it still conducted operations on the continent and against IRA gun runners in North America . |
| 4 | Perhaps she should buy a copy of Spare Rib , and see if it still carried adverts for consciousness-raising groups . |
| 5 | Thirdly , a really effective and comprehensive defence structure for the European Community would be viable outside NATO only if it inevitably involved aspirations for a nuclear capacity . |
| 6 | Was the uninterrupted growth and full employment of the '50s and '60s partly due to a belief ( which can be traced back to World War II ) that demand management would prevent mass unemployment if it ever showed signs of recurring ? |
| 7 | If it occasionally had Cnut in difficulties , it also offered him considerable opportunities , and it is no less generous to the historian , who is better informed upon it than any other aspect of Cnut 's rule . |
| 8 | Soil erosion would only affect these urban interests if it significantly threatened food supplies . |
| 9 | Iraq did not need a nuclear device , because it already had stocks of binary chemical weapons and , he went on , any country which threatened Iraq with an atomic bomb would be " annihilated " by the chemicals . |
| 10 | All outlined how fab System 10 was , and how it would help them , with PeopleSoft rooting for database cursors and the new Open Client because it wants to offer customers better performance , distributed data management , system administration tools and very large database support , and Bachman promising to support System 10 — well , because it just liked Sybase so much . |
| 11 | All outlined how fab System 10 was , and how it would help them , with PeopleSoft rooting for database cursors and the new Open Client because it wants to offer customers better performance , distributed data management , system administration tools and very large database support , and Bachman promising to support System 10 — well , because it just liked Sybase so much . |
| 12 | This law was widely criticised as racist because it effectively barred entry from the so-called new Commonwealth while allowing continued emigration from the predominantly white old Commonwealth countries . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the peace was an Athenian triumph because it effectively acknowledged Athens ' empire by sea . |
| 14 | General Aoun 's ‘ war of liberation ’ against Syria served the Christian cause because it effectively postponed discussion of the reforms which Muslims believe are essential if their numbers are to be fairly represented in a future government . |
| 15 | Whores would sometimes don men 's apparel , leading to Charles I to issue an order forbidding it , because it now made whores more difficult to detect , but this was generally ignored by the soldiery . |
| 16 | The Westboro company is able to shrug off the small but steady and grinding losses because it still had $196.2m in cash and marketable securities at the end of the quarter . |
| 17 | Commenting on its reduced second quarter loss ( figures , page seven ) , Data General Corp said that while it was n't satisfied with its overall results , it was encouraged by the continued success of its AViiON family of Unix computers , which showed significant growth over the year-ago quarter , and it remains cautious for the short-term because of the weak worldwide economy and because it sees no evidence that industry-wide pricing pressures will abate in the near future ; the Westboro company is able to shrug off the small but steady and grinding losses because it still had $196.2m in cash and marketable securities at the end of the quarter . |
| 18 | In summer this was heaven for us because it sometimes took hours to put things right and we would miss a large chunk of lessons . |
| 19 | RAI protests that this amounts to a colossal waste of money since it previously acquired Eurovision rights for nothing more than the duty of reciprocal access to material from Italy . |
| 20 | Intercourse , since it usually produced offspring , was only to be tolerated in a controlled and formalized context . |
| 21 | There were questions about the durability of the logotype over passing years — and questions , too , over whether it properly expressed BT 's international ambitions . |
| 22 | There the company had undertaken to lay some thousands of miles of pipe line across the permafrost , spreading before it specially constructed polystyrene boards to guard against the disastrous consequences of direct contact with the ice . |
| 23 | Three days had passed before it suddenly struck Lisa that she had so far been spared her most dreaded aggravation — the aggravation of Alexander Vass constantly breathing down her neck . |
| 24 | Hurricane Iniki headed 100 miles north for the main Hawaiian resort of Oahu — where it killed a 15-year-old boy — before it suddenly switched course for Kauai . |
| 25 | The eagerness of the plea as opposed to the hasty promise before it quite took Charles aback . |
| 26 | The two-seater Chipmunk aircraft had just taken off when it unexpectedly veered sharpley back towards the runway . |
| 27 | There is no risk , thank God , of Andrew Lloyd Webber wanting to enter the Commons , a place of meagre payment , but the Guardian created a fearful frisson when it wickedly asked Bernard Manning to fill the first of its ‘ How I am Voting ’ slots , and drew a mouthful of club-night nastiness . |
| 28 | Erm right through till eighty two when it actually got funding . |
| 29 | The Lithuanian Supreme Soviet , which as a result of elections on Feb. 24 had passed firmly into the control of deputies affiliated to the nationalist Sajudis movement , on March 11 plunged the Soviet Union into a constitutional crisis when it unilaterally declared Lithuania independent . |
| 30 | On the morning of 8 May , Ciparis had been waiting as usual for his breakfast to be brought to him , when it suddenly grew dark , and immediately afterwards , hot air laden with ashes began to come through the grating over the door . |