Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , it produced more smoke than flames and Ridley cried out in pain . |
| 2 | Last year , for the first time , it produced more computers than Hitachi , and took second place in the field to Fujitsu . |
| 3 | It made little difference as York 's full back Richard Stevenson bamboozled Novos with a hat-trick of exciting tries from set piece moves , the fourth being touched down by scrum half Martyn Harrison in the 49th minute . |
| 4 | It made little difference if a dreadful rash despoiled both little faces . |
| 5 | The first meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers was held on 2 January 1818 with eight founder members present , but it made slow progress until in 1820 Telford , who never joined the Smeatonians , agreed to become the first president . |
| 6 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 7 | In the course of its report it made several suggestions as to reform of the law to increase the availability of credit by removing what were perceived to be legal handicaps : Specifically , the Banking Commission recommended changes in the law of security . |
| 8 | Well , it made more sense than ‘ good morning ’ . |
| 9 | Last year it made more profit than any of the clearing ( commercial ) banks against which it increasingly competes . |
| 10 | The main point of the case was that it involved domestic property where the client would suffer ( as a private purchaser ) a relatively great loss if the report were negligent , while the risk that would have been undertaken by the surveyor , if he had accepted liability for negligence , would have been relatively low , since it was a routine survey of domestic property , and for him , as a businessman , the value of the property in question was not relatively a great amount of money . |
| 11 | ‘ It provided built-in variety when the technology of TV was very different . |
| 12 | The quatrocentennial Columbus exhibition cost a staggering $30m : it drew more visitors than any previous event in history . |
| 13 | A PWR was economic , displacing old plant ; it was a good thing because it used other fuel than coal , or , rather , it was in line with the |
| 14 | It caused endless trouble because of all the bride-prices being paid in cattle . |
| 15 | There are several reasons why it received greater emphasis as the years went by . |
| 16 | Their relationship was further strained when Wolfgang threw security to the winds to go to Vienna , and it suffered irreparable damage when a new and more powerful force — in the form of a prospective bride — entered Wolfgang 's life . |
| 17 | It attracted such sponsors as Sir James Goldsmith , Lords Hanson and White , and Rocco Forte . |
| 18 | But Ukraine , though it renounced nuclear weapons when it became independent in 1991 , is now hesitating to ratify START 1 and the Lisbon protocol , and to accede as a non-nuclear state to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) . |
| 19 | With nostrils at the end of a proboscis-like beak , conspicuous ears and unable to fly , it seemed more mammal than bird . |
| 20 | It seemed several days since he had seen the girls ' bodies in their mockery of repose at the embalmer 's shed that morning . |
| 21 | It happened three times while I was there , each in very similar circumstances . |
| 22 | Six countries bordering the Black Sea — Bulgaria , Georgia , Romania , Russia , Turkey and the Ukraine — have agreed on a three year programme to tackle pollution of its waters , after an international scientific group warned that it faced ecological death unless urgent measures were taken . |
| 23 | It decided to question the validity of the Regulations in proceedings for judicial review but to avoid adverse publicity which might arise if it was the only building society failing to pay in accordance with the Regulations and to avoid the danger of being charged penalties , it paid three instalments as required by the Regulations but without prejudice to its right to recover those sums if it was correct in its contention that the Regulations were void . |
| 24 | THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city . |
| 25 | Chased by police vehicles and a helicopter it rammed three cars as it careered down the wrong side of city centre roads . |
| 26 | It characterized such children as a potential revolutionary army of the future . |
| 27 | I am sure that had nothing to do with her withdrawal but the way she did it raised more questions than it answered . |
| 28 | Particularly impressive was its handling of greyscales — it displayed more subtlety than you 'd expect . |
| 29 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 30 | You see , it needed more strength than an elderly lady or a boy could have . |