Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This revised proposal was reflected in E 38 , Inventories , where it attracted considerable comment , with a sizeable minority , not surprisingly , arguing for the retention of LIFO . |
| 2 | Wheat was favoured , not merely because of its immediate importance as a basic food , but because it demanded least capital and least care , even where it meant wretched cultivations : only one-tenth of the cereal secano was farmed in regular rotations of wheat and legumes ; a quarter was cultivated only once every six or ten years . |
| 3 | The ribbon could be fed into a casting machine in another part of the building , where it cast single characters , producing a quality of type much better suited to bookwork than was a Linotype slug . |
| 4 | Chloroguanide was not itself a pyrimidine , but it was sufficiently close for it to be tested in L. casei , where it showed interesting effects , resembling some of Hitchings ' compounds . |
| 5 | Although it achieved classic status , it did not become generally known until the late Victorian period , when Frances Hodgson Burnett [ q.v. ] , who had read the book as a child , retold part of it from memory in St Nicholas in 1887 , and the proper text was ‘ rediscovered ’ . |
| 6 | By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy . |
| 7 | The new year would see a disintegration of the unanimity of the DCAC 's supporters ; the committee had grave doubts about the wisdom of the PD march from Belfast to Derry , although it arranged material support and a welcoming rally for the marchers . |
| 8 | Although it required official sanction to perform intersexing , Roirbak doubted whether Jahsaxa was careless enough not to have seen to that . |
| 9 | Immediately it sprouted numerous legs and scrabbled for a purchase . |
| 10 | Once it meant political independence and freedom from commercial pressures , but given the increasingly prescriptive and bureaucratic nature of grant-aid that has become a dubious notion . |
| 11 | Once it entered low mountain cloud , production of acids increased 14-fold and fallout increased over 200 per cent . |
| 12 | The German Air Ministry building in the Leipzigstrasse , for example , which had been a target since September 1940 , remained unscathed until it suffered slight damage in a US daylight raid in 1944 ! |
| 13 | Others followed suit until it became standard practice in the group . |
| 14 | The rest came from increasing the electricity supply only until it met specific development needs . |
| 15 | Indeed , it had even baulked over the European Payments Union for five months until it gained complete assurance that it would still be able to retain sole control over sterling as an international reserve currency . |
| 16 | It had also hindered trade relations with the United States , where Congress 's 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment prohibited the US government from granting export credits to the Soviet Union until it allowed free emigration [ for December 1990 special waiver of Jackson-Vanik amendment see p. 37921 ] . |
| 17 | Information is also collected about the quality of teaching received , and although this has not yet been formally used in allocating money , one department did have part of its grant withheld for several months until it introduced clear teaching objectives . |
| 18 | Whatever may have been said in the 1930s — even if it reflected current views then — cannot be correct today . |
| 19 | The proposed shoe factory , for example , would make a return on capital of around 15% if it sold running shoes for 1,000 roubles a pair . |
| 20 | But Luke only nodded , as if it made perfect sense . |
| 21 | Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested . |
| 22 | I also asked if it affected sexual performance . |
| 23 | He leaned forward once again , subjecting her to the unnerving illusion of being pinned by his shadow , trapped and oppressed by it , as if it carried physical weight , composed of all that he felt for her , lust and contempt . |
| 24 | THE only way men could be relied on to take the proposed male contraceptive pill would be if it enlarged certain parts of their anatomy in the way the female pill enlarges breasts . |
| 25 | The growth of the ‘ displacement ’ model would be understandable if it resolved individual difficulties or reduced the general incidence of difficulty . |
| 26 | When viewing a house we were interested in buying , we asked the owner if it had rear access . |
| 27 | Christians quote from the Bible as if it had divine authority . |
| 28 | All experience showed that an attack had some prospect of success only if it had numerical superiority in a ratio of at least 3 : 1 . |
| 29 | UNTAC would only be successful , Boutros-Ghali stressed , if it had adequate human and financial resources . |
| 30 | The more cross-holdings there are , the less chance of success for any outside raid on Hongkong Land , even if it had semi-official backing from the Chinese government . |