Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He set aside an area of one hundred and nine acres to the east of the original Saxon village ( called Old Town to this day ) and on it laid out a regular plan of streets — three running parallel with the river and three others crossing them at right angles . |
| 2 | Look at the decision of the Exchequer Chamber how we may , it laid down a new principle . |
| 3 | With the DES having to settle for this , and with the Diploma being seen in higher education as merely equivalent to the first two years of a degree programme , it became not an alternative track in higher education , but an ambiguous poor relation to the degree . |
| 4 | It became increasingly a political pariah , relegated to a marginal position in society , which could be safely ignored by influential opinion . |
| 5 | And then it became perhaps a troublesome er entity . |
| 6 | That class would vote solidly as a class for candidates representative of that class , and since it made up a clear majority of the population , what could stand in the way of its political ascendancy ? |
| 7 | It let out a long clang . |
| 8 | When the Heath administration first began to expand its intelligence activities in Ulster , it operated a number of agents , complete with English accents , before it built up an indigenous network . |
| 9 | It beat off a last-minute rival bid of about £30,000 more from Channel 4 and the sports promotion group IMG to win the right to stage the event over eight weeks , starting in August . |
| 10 | " Private Eye " fell into this trap when it beat off an interim injunction from Robert Maxwell by promising to prove at trial that he had financed Neil Kinnock 's foreign travel in the hope of being awarded a peerage . |
| 11 | It proposed not a planned economy in which the State would direct resources but a managed one where the State would influence the use of resources through its fiscal policy . |
| 12 | It filled in an important gap in her information . |
| 13 | It seemed rather an historic moment , but I put the thought aside ; one must not get sentimental , and everything had been done properly , had been left in order and as it should be . |
| 14 | It seemed rather an odd thing to do , but perfectly in tune with the occasion . |
| 15 | It seemed quite a tall order at the time but in practice it worked out well and proved to be a most enjoyable experience as well as one of our more memorable tours of duty . |
| 16 | It heralded not a new age of dispersal , but a return to the bad old days of technological free-for-all-a return to that madness that had once before almost destroyed Chung Kuo . |
| 17 | Once this new mode of production began to replace the old , it threw up a new class of owners . |
| 18 | The Authority had originally been convicted in a magistrate 's court after it dug out a plant-filled ditch as part of drainage works on Alverstone Marshes SSSI , in the Isle of Wight , without the consent of the Nature Conservancy Council ( as required under the Act ) . |
| 19 | How he used it opened up a new realm for investigation . |
| 20 | And saying that , in the last three years I since discovered , and it was quite difficult to , which I did find , that there was alternative erm therapists , which was lots of groups that were going on and once I got into it erm the , it opened up a new , you know I ne I 've never saw the light at the tunnel that is shining brightly now ! |
| 21 | It opened up a three-shot lead going into the second and that gave us a nice little cushion to work with . |
| 22 | It so happened that it turned out a good thing that it did n't get posted , but that was just a lucky chance . |
| 23 | It turned out a cracking match , one of the best for combined action and atmosphere I 've seen this season . |
| 24 | However it turned out a dismal championship for them with only Noel Weir of Rathfriland giving the association an interest in the open singles final . |
| 25 | And it used to be , it killed off a good part of our business this year , we used to do a roaring trade in back-dated diaries with accountancy lawyers , and it 's all gone . |
| 26 | Instead , it cooked up a market-sharing deal with Du Pont that was to last until 1944 , when it was the subject of a celebrated American antitrust suit . |
| 27 | In it he said that the Scottish financial sector did nothing to help the country 's economy , that it benefited only a selected minority , and that it put little back into Scotland . |
| 28 | It curved round a large square . |
| 29 | This hospital was apparently established in Knightsbridge in 1778 , but it survived only a short while , Snape having been left in the lurch by noblemen who promised financial support . |
| 30 | There have been an enormous series of changes over the last ten or fifteen years , and maybe some school teachers would be glad if it slowed down a little bit to make their life a little easier , I do n't know . |