Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , falling into the technocrats ' natural sin , it mistook administrative device for organic substance . |
| 2 | Political anti-semitism attracted mass support for the BUF in a limited geographical area , but it engendered greater hostility within those same localities and had appalling consequences elsewhere . |
| 3 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 4 | about this bra top thing she 's got and how it 's got a hole in it and she was trying to think back how it got this hole in it and she remembered that Mark put his fingers through it |
| 5 | The newsletter rates HP the leading Unix vendor last year and expects it to consolidate its position this year with at least the 40% revenue increase it got last year on an 80% increase in shipped units . |
| 6 | So of course I told him about , you see we , we 'd lowered the level of the loch at the , took four feet of it , you see and it revealed this thing in the loch . |
| 7 | It affirmed that provision by LEAs of education for under-fives was discretionary not compulsory . |
| 8 | It laid great emphasis on value for money auditing and recommended that all health authorities establish value for money teams whose role would be to effect annual savings which could be used for improving services . |
| 9 | The team certainly lived up to its reputation as it whipped first place from under the noses of the Golden Wonder team at the end of the last game . |
| 10 | On July 24 the Djibouti government rejected suggestions by Ahmed Ali that it sought territorial expansion at the expense of Somaliland . |
| 11 | A further area for the media group to check is the loss of circulation due to strikes or other problems : during the continuing difficulties that beset Fleet Street in the early eighties it became standard practice for papers affected to provide a rebate for lost circulation . |
| 12 | Others followed suit until it became standard practice in the group . |
| 13 | Gradually , all was revealed that is , people , including the authorities and the KGB , realized that the Odd-Bod Greek who had spent all those years collecting the ‘ rubbish ’ that no-one needed had in fact made a collection that was now worth a great deal of money , and it reached a point when it became awkward living in Moscow with the collection . |
| 14 | It 's a well set out machine and using it became second nature after just a couple of hours . |
| 15 | Yes , but , but the national land conference approved the outline agrarian law erm and then it be it became formal policy in October so it is after , but , but it was the land conference which actually ratified it . |
| 16 | The articles of agreement stipulated that gold was the official numeraire in terms of which each currency 's exchange value was to be pegged , but it became common practice for countries to adopt a par value for their currencies expressed in terms of the dollar . |
| 17 | Cords Plc manufactures a style of corduroy trousers that it sold last year at £18 each pair . |
| 18 | It recommended disciplinary action against the department 's bureau of political-military affairs for failing to stop the violations . |
| 19 | Last month Rainbow Warrior II was seized by the French navy as it led another protest to the atoll . |
| 20 | But it produced critical evidence about how different designs of tax would hit marginal seats and heartland Tory ones . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | He then began adding back one food per day and when he included instant coffee it produced another bout of severe depression . |
| 23 | Also , it made extra work for the cook . |
| 24 | It never came close to winning an election anywhere and , despite the fears of Harry Pollitt , the Communist leader , it made little impact in London dockland around Wapping . |
| 25 | It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both . |
| 26 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It made brilliant use of a difficult site and united station and thoroughfare in a most satisfying way . |
| 29 | It made good use of two colours and presented a clear financial summary showing how each pound of income was used . |
| 30 | It made short work of our Windows performance tests , WinTach , clocking up an impressive index of over 9.3 . |