Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It only missed hitting an oncoming white sports-car by inches and by the swiftness of the young sports-car-driver 's reaction .
2 It also meant living a certain philosophy .
3 Moreover , it also meant recognising the independent existence of East Germany , which the Soviets had declared to be a sovereign state in 1955 .
4 It also risked acquiring the stigma attached to the means-tested Poor Law .
5 It also favoured hardening the existing European currency unit rather than creating a separate " hard ecu " , as proposed by the UK [ see p. 37969 ] .
6 I had no experience of teaching art to anyone , but the headmaster assured me that it simply involved giving the boys some paints to play with and then telling them to get on with it .
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