Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It engendered immediate feelings of friendship , of belonging . |
| 2 | It had always been generous in terms of sick pay and sympathetic and understanding towards employees with family problems , though it expected high standards of dress and deportment and lateness , absenteeism and incivility were not tolerated . |
| 3 | Lep Group , the transport business which is attracting increasing US investment , fell 16p to 149p after it announced interim profits of £9.5m against £5m . |
| 4 | The electricity distributor yesterday cut tariffs by 1pc for 1.3m customers as it announced pre-tax profits of £111.2m . |
| 5 | The electricity distributor yesterday cut tariffs by 1pc for 1.3m customers as it announced pre-tax profits of £111.2m . |
| 6 | Last week it announced first-quarter contributions of £11.1m from CMB — the result of the £900m merger between Metal Box and the French Carnaud company . |
| 7 | Sainsbury won much publicity when it appointed former Friends of the Earth director Jonathan Porritt to be its environmental policy adviser . |
| 8 | Zenith also said it sold 500,000 shares of newly issued common to institutional investors for whom Crabbe Huson Co of Portland , Oregon serves as investment advisor . |
| 9 | Furthermore , it gave valuable information about the Permian sequence ; in particular it penetrated 370 ft of Upper Permian salt , and the 1800 ft of lavas and tuffs believed to be Lower Permian . |
| 10 | BELOW Before this building on the banks of the River Thames in London was constructed , the site was excavated ; it produced important evidence of a Roman quay ( see reconstruction on the previous page ) . |
| 11 | He then began adding back one food per day and when he included instant coffee it produced another bout of severe depression . |
| 12 | Germany , though it produced massive quantities of coal , steel and iron , was still a very backward place . |
| 13 | At the meeting the SOC finally ceased its efforts to amend the UN draft plan so that it made explicit mention of " genocide " , in reference to the appalling human rights record of the Khmer Rouge government of the late 1970s . |
| 14 | It made pre-tax profits of 95.3 billion roubles in the year ending on January 1st 1993 ( $141m , at the average exchange rate for 1992 ) . |
| 15 | In 1992 it made pre-tax profits of £4.6m on sales of £80m . |
| 16 | Brewin was sold to management by Scandinavian Bank for about £6 million last year , when it made pre-tax profits of £1.4 million on turnover of £14.4 million . |
| 17 | It made brilliant use of a difficult site and united station and thoroughfare in a most satisfying way . |
| 18 | It made good use of two colours and presented a clear financial summary showing how each pound of income was used . |
| 19 | It made short work of our Windows performance tests , WinTach , clocking up an impressive index of over 9.3 . |
| 20 | We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going . |
| 21 | When the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signed Protocols 2 and 3 to the Nuclear Free Zone Treaty , it made interpretive statements of its commitments . |
| 22 | Mixed development met the sociological dictates of urbanity and community ; it met the planning critics of inter-war sprawl ; and it met architectural requirements of variety in materials ( concrete , brick , wood , pebbles and strong colours ) . |
| 23 | It involved 14 groups of facial muscles and it releases chemicals to the brain that help combat depression . |
| 24 | Both state that it involved 300 denarii of spikenard — the equivalent of perhaps £5,000 today . |
| 25 | It involved quick learning of the part , for she would have to appear at the matinée ; but in fact there were few lines to say , and most of the acting involved being laid on a sofa by a young man and proposed to , after various adventures which were mostly physical . |
| 26 | It excluded any mention of the virgin birth . |
| 27 | By 1871 , Oldham had more cotton-spinning spindles than any country in the world outside the USA and it maintained that position of superiority until 1937 . |
| 28 | It provided year-by-year evidence of prevailing trends in public health . |
| 29 | As such it provided further evidence of a more flexible North Korean foreign policy arising in response to the momentous changes in Eastern Europe , and to South Korea 's recent successes in establishing relations with socialist countries . |
| 30 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |