Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Since it arrived four days ago , every last word was beaten into her brain . |
| 32 | The business has changed dramatically since it joined six years ago . |
| 33 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |
| 34 | It 's the latest setback for Euro Disney which has been losing money since it opened eighteen months ago . |
| 35 | Since it opened 2 years ago , 7 deaths have been attributed to driver fatigue . |
| 36 | Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago . |
| 37 | It seems unlikely that the dance was copied into the score at the wrong point : if it had been , one would expect to find it headed by some warning that it belonged several pages later — otherwise severe complications would result in orchestral parts copied from the score . |
| 38 | It was urged into the air again , kicking out with its back legs , seeming to hang there motionless , and then on hind legs it walked several steps forwards . |
| 39 | In the process , it discovered such homes often provided better care for seriously mentally frail elderly people than local authority accommodation . |
| 40 | It finished two months ahead of schedule , a bonus for both motorists and the contractors . |
| 41 | Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the organization set up by industry to comply with a law requiring manufacturers to recycle packaging , has succeeded in dealing with paper , aliminium and glass , but it collected four times more plastic rubbish than it could cope with . |
| 42 | As a mass medium nationally it achieved full status only in 1959 when it started printing in London , dropped Manchester from the mast-head and was distributed nationally like the other Fleet Street dailies . |
| 43 | It began two weeks ago with revelations about the tax arrangements of Mr Birt , who was employed as a freelance consultant via his own firm in the £140,000-a-year job . |
| 44 | If Euclidean space-time stretches back to infinite imaginary time , or else starts at a singularity in imaginary time , we have the same problem as in the classical theory of specifying the initial state of the universe : God may know how the universe began , but we can not give any particular reason for thinking it began one way rather than another . |
| 45 | Virgin 's determined to fight , on Thursday it began legal action here in the United States . |
| 46 | The Commissioners answers came in the form of a set of proposals which represented the most fundamental reshaping of the common Agricultural policy since it began 30 years ago . |
| 47 | This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago . |
| 48 | When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name . |
| 49 | It merged six years later with the Scottish Umpire to form Scottish Sport , which appeared twice weekly at 1d. and claimed a circulation of 43,000 . |
| 50 | It was meant to be intimidating , and it served that purpose well . |
| 51 | Sunnyvale , California-based MasPar Computer Corp wants us to know it shipped 13 MP-2 massively parallel machines in 1992 , calling it a ‘ faster-than-projected start-up ’ for a box introduced in October 1992 . |
| 52 | Hewlett-Packard Co accompanied news that it had made $261m net profit for its fiscal first quarter ( a decline of 21% before a big accounting charge last time ) with news that it cut 1,700 jobs worldwide during the period . |
| 53 | He argued that since crime , as officially recorded , was greatest amongst the working class , it followed that anomie too must be greatest in that social stratum . |
| 54 | Says the star : ‘ They did n't bat an eyelid when I told them I wanted it delivered 5,000 miles away in London . |
| 55 | The government 's emphasis on cash crop production was criticized on the grounds that it favoured wealthy exporters rather than small farmers and had hindered industrial development . |
| 56 | Although this looked worse than it might have done since it covered fourteen months instead of twelve — the result of an adjustment to a different financial year — such figures demanded a response . |
| 57 | The Irish national lottery has created 19 millionaires since it started five years ago . |
| 58 | It started nine years ago when he got into a dispute on a pathway with a Brahmin and his wife . |
| 59 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |
| 60 | If the air needed clearing , then our first conversation did exactly that , for it saw each man strongly protesting his innocence and strenuously denying any involvement in the murder . |