Example sentences of "it [vb past] [det] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This treaty empowered France to exercise certain sovereign powers on behalf of Morocco , provided it respected all treaty obligations to which Morocco had been subject before the formation of the Protectorate . |
| 2 | Additionally , it read all cable traffic entering and leaving Britain . |
| 3 | The CEGB disclosed the escalation in nuclear costs as it announced that operating profits are £603 million lower than expected at £355 million . |
| 4 | It recommended that school leavers aged 14 to 16 should attend ‘ continuation ’ schools for the equivalent of a day a week ( this was never implemented ) . |
| 5 | It created this mushroom kind of thing that people stared at . |
| 6 | Even the Irish edition of the Daily Star said something positive about Sellafield recently when it reported that radon gas was to blame for 500 deaths every year . |
| 7 | It received several daytime radio plays and the chorus , containing the grunt ‘ Lost your love of life ? |
| 8 | But it stipulated that cabinet decisions should be taken by majority vote , rather than by consensus as the National Party wanted . |
| 9 | It played these roles thanks to impeccable photographic skills , including montage and front-projection . |
| 10 | She said the Edinburgh summit had been a tense time for the family when it seemed all Mr Garel-Jones ' work on Maastricht could have come to nothing . |
| 11 | At times it seemed that price increases would be favoured as a means of raising self-financing and reducing pressure on the capital market ; at others that rises would be deprecated as contributing to inflation . |
| 12 | It seemed that bingo afternoons left her so exhausted both physically and emotionally that she never had enough energy left to cook an evening meal . |
| 13 | It seemed that record companies were always too interested in other places to look . |
| 14 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |
| 15 | ’ It seemed that time scales were important to him . |
| 16 | But now it seemed this Adam Burns was determined to dredge up her other life all over again . |
| 17 | It surveyed all Member States , and recorded that : |
| 18 | Before it adjourned , it heard former Pan Am employees accuse the airline of refusing to pay for adequate security measures . |
| 19 | It anticipated that business failures of established companies will continue to rise into the first quarter of 192 and did not expect to see a significant fall in the level of failures for up to 18 months . |
| 20 | It indicated that community education for peace and reconstruction offered a possible alternative to violence and conflict by building a united working-class movement based on local community action . |
| 21 | It needed some land sales to achieve pre-tax profits of £36.2m for the year to February . |
| 22 | And there was a Yorkshire firm covered it covered that road tarmac or something they said , It 'll last twenty years . |
| 23 | It contained several birthday cards , but Dana 's was late , as usual . |
| 24 | It contained some routine passages but the central message was a sustained attack upon the two press lords : |
| 25 | They would gladly put up with a certain level of pregnancy risk if it meant fewer side effects . |
| 26 | If we go on to books erm , I think that Longman performance is exceptionally good erm , of course for book business it 's very much first half , second half , most of the profit coming in second half , but er , erm , Longman only dropping seven percent on the year before seems to me a particularly good performance given the environment and in fact it generated more operating cash flow than the year before . |
| 27 | Sandvik broke new woodworking ground when it introduced that Sandvik XT range of saws last year . |
| 28 | In the week before the start of the congress it emerged that party ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev was canvassing support among the party leaderships in several republics and in Moscow and Leningrad for postponing the congress until the autumn . |
| 29 | That the new system generated little moral authority was less important than the fact that it gave many Sri Lankans access to the power of the state . |
| 30 | US fiscal policy was expansionary in 1970 — it gave some tax relief and additional transfer payments to households — but this stimulus was subsequently eroded by rising tax bills . |