Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But having had some estimates for that , it became inappropriate to , it became more cost effective to replace the entire pipe with a wider diameter pipe . |
| 2 | It recommended that Section 2 be replaced by a new Act that would define more narrowly the information that was to be protected ; restricted categories would cover confidential material about defence , foreign affairs and currency reserves , information concerning law enforcement and information provided for the government by an individual or private concern . |
| 3 | It made monetary policy difficult , because the meaning of ‘ money ’ was no longer clear . |
| 4 | It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals . |
| 5 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 6 | In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end . |
| 7 | Now er one of the very , or the very serious suggestion that came out of that meeting , and it I think it met unanimous support that night , was consideration of altering the time of the morning service . |
| 8 | ‘ Only when it was in the net did I realise what size it was and it weighed 26 ob 8 oz , ’ added John who went on to bank five other pike , two of 8 lb 8 oz , and others of 10 lb , 11lb and 14 lb . |
| 9 | And it cost two pound thirty five for a hundred and thirty six gram egg and two forty gram Creme Eggs . |
| 10 | But last night it cost fourteen year old Lewis Hall his life . |
| 11 | When the lover 's list was first calculated in 1973 it cost just Pounds 2,818.60 . |
| 12 | It rose three storeys high from the cobble-stoned street , its pale stone exterior clear and uncluttered . |
| 13 | It comprised two rooms each c. 4 m ( 13 ft ) square , laid out on either side of the alley ( 3 ) , which presumably served further rooms and a yard to the rear . |
| 14 | In 1982 it arrived five months early and , in addition , was one of the strongest events of this kind observed in the present century . |
| 15 | Judging by the front of it , the house was quite large , for it showed three windows each side of the front door , the same above them , and a row of small windows jutting out from the roof . |
| 16 | Apparently it began some time last night . ’ |
| 17 | The uprating deals with the expenditure of the largest Government Department — it spent some £60 billion this year . |
| 18 | Sun said in the first half it shipped 28,000 Sparcstation 10s including 1,500 Model 41s . |
| 19 | Erm it touched it touched twenty grand last year . |
| 20 | Although the House voted in favour of the bill by 232 to 195 , it fell 53 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a presidential veto . |
| 21 | In view of this , it would appear that a corporate finance arm of a conglomerate , acting as an underwriter to a client , would fulfil this test if , in the course of its relationship with that client , it acquired confidential information such as earnings figures , future corporate plans , new innovations , or inventions , and would , as a result , owe an obligation of confidence to that client . |
| 22 | Organised by Brian and Anna Houghton , the London ceramics dealers who have launched two highly regarded specialist fairs in London during the past few years , it offered New Yorkers two innovations ; an expert vetting committee , which checked that every item was genuinely what it was said to be — there had never been vetting in America before — and a showcase in their own city of top European dealers ' wares . |
| 23 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 24 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 25 | Sink It took two people 90 minutes to wash up , dry , clean sink and draining board and put the dishes away . |
| 26 | It took this city clean off the map . ’ |
| 27 | In November 1927 it took 300 men some six hours to carry the giant rosary which surrounds the statue up from Santo António , in Funchal . |
| 28 | It gave Scottish athletics one of its biggest boosts since the same pair of athletes won gold at the European Championships in Split two years ago . |
| 29 | It appeared that signer 2 very clearly used speech throughout , one presumes to make lip-reading easier for a deaf audience . |
| 30 | And it said medical staff unwilling to take part in operations should refer patients to colleagues who would . |