Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recovery by Mrs Fields : Shares in Mrs Fields , the troubled US bakery and cookie retailer , rose more than 20 per cent from their 12-month low of 19p to 23p after it announced much reduced trading losses . |
| 2 | SHARES in Mrs Fields , the troubled US bakery and cookie retailer , rose more than 20 per cent from their 12-month low of 19p to 23p yesterday after it announced much reduced trading losses . |
| 3 | It sought continually to encourage teachers to reevaluate classroom practice — both in curriculum content and methodology . |
| 4 | Instead of banning corporal punishment outright , however , it sought merely to give effect to the Court 's ruling . |
| 5 | First , during the 1920s it became easier to transfer freehold land , as long-standing solicitor resistance to changes in property law broke down ; a series of Property Acts from 1910 to 1925 facilitated the free and rapid transfer of small plots and single dwellings . |
| 6 | Use of carbon fibre reinforced tube and rod not only added to frame rigidity , it enabled lighter and smaller designs to be created such as described already in Chapter Two , and it led eventually to sail designs with multiple stand-offs for improved aerodynamic characteristics . |
| 7 | The news of the cost overrun caused Eurotunnel 's share price to fall 100p at one stage , although it recovered slightly to close 45p down at 650p . |
| 8 | Dillons passed the cheque onto Childline after its parent Pentos received it from Legal & General Property as a token of thanks after it moved quickly to open branches of Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop and Athena in the Buttermarket Shopping Centre , Ipswich , in time for the centre 's first day of trading on 1st October . |
| 9 | Italy 's air force was told yesterday that unless it bombed fast moving lava flows pouring from Mount Etna to divert their course , the 6,500 people living at the foot of Europe 's highest volcano could face destruction . |
| 10 | That 's how we got it right and that 's how it finished up taking $180 million worldwide . |
| 11 | Delaney stood with one foot on the hull of the craft that looked as if it owed more to space technology than to marine engineering . |
| 12 | But there are no signs that either the phrase or the policy which it expressed ever became part of his own thinking either about the Church as a whole or about his own duties as archbishop . |
| 13 | For once it decided not to have cystitis and gushed out like the Victoria Falls funnelled through a hose pipe . |
| 14 | The man who built it understood how to find calm , gentle enjoyment in life … |
| 15 | The driver for achieving our objective was reduced batch size , so that it fell closer to order quantity . |
| 16 | It went on to describe Tracey 's confrontation with the unfortunate man , and his subsequent disappearance , presumably over the border into East Germany . |
| 17 | Made for only $171,000 it went on to gross $8 million in the US . |
| 18 | If it went about accusing companies of doing terrible things with their accounts and could not then sustain the accusation , its credibility would quickly collapse . |
| 19 | Cherishing port as a special occasion drink was certainly flattering , but it did rather inhibit sales . |
| 20 | Although the Labour Party was fragmented in its approach to foreign affairs , and slow to respond to events in Europe , it did strongly oppose Fascism and appeasement even before the 1937 Bournemouth Conference . |
| 21 | It did however have commitment and Goodwin 's fund-raising abilities . |
| 22 | One derivative , later named methisazone , attracted interest because it was shown in clinical trials in Madras , in 1963 , to prevent people exposed to smallpox during an epidemic from developing the disease , even though it did not hasten recovery once the disease had developed . |
| 23 | made trade unions completely immune from actions in tort , though it did not affect liability of individuals ; |
| 24 | When a repeat biopsy was taken in these patients it did not affect management and this practice , which has often been followed just to satisfy some definitions of coeliac disease , should be reviewed . |
| 25 | He knew how banal the question was as soon as he had asked it , but it did not affect Surere 's mood . |
| 26 | What was worse , within minutes people would be walking all over her back-breaking work — it did not bear thinking of . |
| 27 | It did not suggest Mr Beregovoy was involved . |
| 28 | It did not contain £3 million but it was , Yarranton said , a token of the Sports Council 's commitment to make the games ‘ a success story for Britain ’ . |
| 29 | While individual officers may indeed have been aware of this work , consideration of it did not form part of the policy-making . |
| 30 | In the same way , if , after an oral representation , the terms of the sale are reduced into writing which does not include the representation , this may indicate that it did not form part of the agreement . |