Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Additionally , it read all cable traffic entering and leaving Britain .
2 It sought formal Solidarity support for the government through a permanent representation committee .
3 Upon closure of the branch line in 1957 , the B.E.M.U. went home to Derby where it became departmental test unit ‘ Gemini ’ , before eventually being acquired by the West Yorkshire Transport Museum .
4 In recent weeks it sold one Ford franchise for £8m and bought another for £6m .
5 It made one manufacturing company re-order its priorities substantially .
6 She looked good , she was quite good fun to be with , it made good business sense
7 It created this mushroom kind of thing that people stared at .
8 Even the Irish edition of the Daily Star said something positive about Sellafield recently when it reported that radon gas was to blame for 500 deaths every year .
9 ‘ Briefly , it described systematic state child abuse , ’ said Mr Fenton .
10 It described extravagant Easter egg packaging as ‘ a gimmick which has nothing to do with protecting the contents , let alone Easter ’ .
11 Once it entered low mountain cloud , production of acids increased 14-fold and fallout increased over 200 per cent .
12 It caused slight fire damage to skirting board and smoke damage to 30 metres of corridor .
13 It received several daytime radio plays and the chorus , containing the grunt ‘ Lost your love of life ?
14 But it suffered severe smoke damage last night after its frying range caught light .
15 In 1908 however when Mr. Vernon S. Lovell presented his trophy it comprised two pewter quart pots and two George III candlesticks to be played for in a bogey handicap competition .
16 That means that means that it prevented high blood pressure as well though .
17 To tackle the current economic crisis , it envisaged freezing government expenditure and reducing the costs of social security and unemployment benefit .
18 It was at a height of nearly 3,000 metres & the air outside was well below freezing , but the lava tunnel was in an area of recent activity , and as a result it boasted beautiful underfloor heating .
19 It is also , more generally , the essence of what the Barclay Report ( 1982 ) was seeking when it characterized social care planning as one of the core roles in which community social workers should be engaged .
20 It obstructed coherent cabinet consideration of the issues , and full consultation between civilian and military leaders .
21 It indicated that community education for peace and reconstruction offered a possible alternative to violence and conflict by building a united working-class movement based on local community action .
22 It needed careful trowel work , and the structural sequence became increasingly complicated and difficult to understand .
23 And there was a Yorkshire firm covered it covered that road tarmac or something they said , It 'll last twenty years .
24 It included large waggon door openings in the middle of each side elevation , with storage bays to either side of the central threshing floor to which these doors gave access .
25 It urged Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi to accept Beye 's invitation to a meeting in Libreville , Gabon , with African heads of state .
26 It urged Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi to accept Beye 's invitation to a meeting in Libreville , Gabon , with African heads of state .
27 The board had hoped that , when it lost statutory monopoly power to buy all milk in its area some time next year , it would retain 100 per cent loyalty from its dairy farmers .
28 Although it already had a number of blue chip clients , such as Wm Low and the Scottish Development Agency ( and now Scottish Enterprise ) , perhaps what made the firm 's reputation was the way it handled Scottish electricity privatisation for the Government , an appointment made before the Shandwick deal .
29 It brought closer Home Office control and local authority subsidy to reformatories for children for whom the first resort of probation had either failed or was thought inappropriate .
30 First , it enabled joint Town Planning committees to be established , which assisted in the development of regional planning .
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