Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Racal proved this conclusively when it announced last spring that it was planning to sell off part of the Vodafone mobile telecoms operation . |
| 2 | It announced this week that it was adding a top rate of 12.5 p.c. to its new Premier Fix account . |
| 3 | From then on it became big game and for fifty years the only ones to leave China were dead . |
| 4 | It had been reported that Smith was to send a written offer to Celtic for Aitken , and although Smith would not specify the amount it became common knowledge that it was for around £300,000 . |
| 5 | But his own reasoning was different : there were questions he wanted to ask and things he wanted to consider before it became common knowledge that MacQuillan had received a threat typed on a newsroom machine . |
| 6 | News of his work with the handicapped also leaked out at the centre and it became common knowledge that he was using the OBEX swimming-pool . |
| 7 | It recommended better training and status for youth leaders , a building programme of new premises and facilities , and the setting up of a Youth Service Development Council . |
| 8 | It produced coarse yarn and employed at its peak only about 550 workers , including many parish apprentices . |
| 9 | Consequently , it produced more smoke than flames and Ridley cried out in pain . |
| 10 | It produced more tension and more time away from my family . ’ |
| 11 | First , it developed the concept of integrated and comprehensive provision ; secondly , in making a connection between school and wage-earning ‘ it successfully rendered the transition as a social and educational process ; thirdly , it made vocational guidance and after-care appear to be essential features of any youth employment scheme ; fourthly , it showed that the service could offer significant opportunities for exercising a personal influence over the adolescent and his family . |
| 12 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It made little difference if a dreadful rash despoiled both little faces . |
| 15 | A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away . |
| 16 | It made good copy and helped with the film 's publicity ; they also gave an insight into what others thought of Nicholson and the way he saw himself , then . |
| 17 | The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As I understand it , MacAlpine is likely to withdraw the planning application for limited working it made last year and concentrate on pursuing its Interim Development Order application with Dyfed County Council . |
| 20 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 21 | Well , it made more sense than ‘ good morning ’ . |
| 22 | Last year it made more profit than any of the clearing ( commercial ) banks against which it increasingly competes . |
| 23 | Marx condemned capitalism because it frustrated human potential and self-actualization , but believed it was a necessary stage in human dialectical development . |
| 24 | There are miles of computer imagery in 2010 to fill the video screens on the Leonov , then taken for granted , though it involved much work and Sony technology . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It involved hard work and long discussions , dealing with fears , anxieties and practical problems , which needed to continue long after the child had been placed . |
| 27 | Iron was used for the shank as it provided greater strength and longer life than bronze would have done . |
| 28 | ‘ It provided built-in variety when the technology of TV was very different . |
| 29 | The decline in effective demand also affected the legitimacy of capitalism since it created mass unemployment and poverty at home and anti-imperialism abroad . |
| 30 | When one came under the hammer in Morgan 's — the boat belonged to a fisherman who no longer required it — it drew strong bidding and sold for £2,000 . |