Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Successful though the conference was , it merely represented a beginning of the Forum 's work . |
| 2 | It was held that this did not entitle the seller to take from the buyer the proceeds of the sub-sales of his ( the seller 's ) property ; instead it merely created a charge in favour of the seller which was void because it was not registered under the Companies Act . |
| 3 | Intel Corp says it has now received over 30 orders for its Paragon parallel supercomputer , which began shipping in September , and Thinking Machines Corp , Cambridge , says it has 20 CM-5s already installed with customers ; it just sold a $15.8m CM-5 to the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing . |
| 4 | Then not having it rapidly became a sign of poverty . |
| 5 | What good 's it ever done a soul ? |
| 6 | We shall miss his humour , his smile , his sometimes quite brilliant prose and always remember that if the name was mentioned it always brought a smile , and that is what we shall remember . |
| 7 | ‘ It also made a lot of sense that part of the service Metaltronix offered was that I would go into the studio and tweak the gear while these guys were recording , and that 's what happened . |
| 8 | For science not only offered the movement an image of modernity which it had recently lacked ; it also provided a vocabulary with which Labour 's traditional divisions could be obscured . ’ |
| 9 | Disk drive manufacturer Quantum Corp , Milpitas has opened Asia-Pacific regional sales and marketing headquarters in Singapore ; it also signed a deal with FIC , a manufacturer and distributor of subsystems in China , to distribute Quantum products there ; the Asia-Pacific region accounted for $204m or 19% of its worldwide sales in 1992 . |
| 10 | 1966 not only marked the year in which manufacturing employment began to fall nationally ; it also marked a year of significant spatial change . |
| 11 | However , the act gave with one hand and took away with another : for it also removed a tax credit for investment and the possibility of accelerating the write-down against tax of depreciation . |
| 12 | A special feature of this part of the programme was that it regularly included a section with about six brief items , averaging 20–30 seconds in duration , including sound bites of 10–20 seconds . |
| 13 | ‘ It even included a piece by Anthony Burgess — not a figure usually associated with the alternative culture — on ‘ flower language ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ It fully reflected a contribution made by Mr Ward in this hugely important business transaction , ’ said his counsel , Andrew Trollope , QC . |
| 15 | The good thing about the president 's intervention is that it publicly recognised a problem that needed solution the very antithesis of WRU custom and practice for most of the past dozen or more ostrich era . |
| 16 | in a couple of years it never done a thing and now it 's growing . |