Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly it became economic to pay recording artists large fees ; and without mass-production , few recordings of top artists would survive in playable form today . |
| 2 | The full sized engine would then have been worked on until it became feasible to exploit steam engines commercially . |
| 3 | So it became necessary to provide therapy for those unable to achieve the same kind of performance . |
| 4 | Back in Britain , it became necessary to introduce food rationing as the blockade by the German ‘ U ’ boats was having its effect on the supplies of foods from overseas . |
| 5 | That would include such areas as Burma , the northern part of Indo-China , if it became desirable to suppress communism in that country . ’ |
| 6 | The only exception was in war periods when it became customary to meet part of the additional spending through borrowing . |
| 7 | This curious conclusion set at nought the work on distribution done by Brown , Humboldt , Darwin and Wallace , and by the botanists Joseph Hooker of Kew and Asa Gray of Harvard ; they had found all sorts of curious patterns , of which it seemed possible to make sense in terms of migrations , barriers and ice ages . |
| 8 | It seemed undesirable to use force against the Yugoslavs at the moment , but incidents could occur or be provoked , and clear instructions should be issued soon as to whether Alexander should order Eighth Army to close the Austrian frontier to the Yugoslavs and eject them from Carinthia , which would of course mean by force . |
| 9 | It seemed unthinkable to turn Miguelito down now , after that warm flush of pleasure just thinking about being with him , his strong body and arms , his soft mouth and deep beautiful voice . |
| 10 | With the family reaching working age it seemed sensible to take advantage of the expanding market for organic produce and increase the chances of supporting them all from the farm . |
| 11 | And by dusk were back in autumn ; it seemed sensible to make camp in this gentler landscape , but during the night an odd wind fetched up and snow fell , followed by an appallingly humid heat . |
| 12 | It swung open to reveal Maeve . |
| 13 | The principle was , they believed , shown in the continuity from the solid state through gases to the ether in which light travelled ; it connected this seen universe with an unseen one , permanent and underlying this declining world . |
| 14 | They would live on desert racetracks linking up shelters ; it proved impossible to get hold of enough desert from angry human inhabitants . |
| 15 | Experienced bar and kitchen staff were recruited fairly easily in Melcaster , but it proved difficult to find restaurant staff of the same calibre . |
| 16 | The arguments among wartime commanders focused both on the ineffectiveness of indiscriminate bombing ( there was strong evidence , confirmed in post-war surveys , that it did little to disrupt war production and had a reverse effect on popular morale ) , as well as legal and moral unacceptability . |
| 17 | In passing it gave much diverting information . |
| 18 | It had that mixed smell of face powder , lipstick and everything else that goes into a woman 's purse . |
| 19 | It had that dogged look about it . |
| 20 | The research it funded all took place in laboratories inside hospitals and there was nothing tangible to show for it . |
| 21 | The principal remaining air link for Baghdad had been Iraqi Airlines flights to Amman , Jordan , and Jordan stated that it would comply with the mandatory resolution ; it remained illegal to open fire on civil aircraft . |
| 22 | While the Combination Laws of 1799 and 1800 , enacted as a response to a fear of the spread of revolution from the continent , had been notoriously ineffective , prudence remained the order of the day even after their repeal in 1824 , and it remained convenient to take advantage of friendly society legislation . |