Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It owned two bus stations in Southampton . |
| 2 | This treaty empowered France to exercise certain sovereign powers on behalf of Morocco , provided it respected all treaty obligations to which Morocco had been subject before the formation of the Protectorate . |
| 3 | Page 27 Buoyant Borland : Borland International said it expected second quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 4 | The CEGB disclosed the escalation in nuclear costs as it announced that operating profits are £603 million lower than expected at £355 million . |
| 5 | The social welfare and material benefits which the imperialist state could grant to workers in Britain and Germany at the turn of the twentieth century allowed capitalism to survive because it divided Third World workers from their similarly exploited , if differently rewarded , working-class brethren in the industrialised centre of the world economy . |
| 6 | It recommended that school leavers aged 14 to 16 should attend ‘ continuation ’ schools for the equivalent of a day a week ( this was never implemented ) . |
| 7 | It produced distinctive pottery vessels in human or animal form , which are now found in large numbers in collections throughout the world . |
| 8 | The rest came from increasing the electricity supply only until it met specific development needs . |
| 9 | It created segregated education systems with eleven departments of education divided on regional lines in addition to departments for whites , Coloureds and Rehoboth ( German speakers ) . |
| 10 | When , in 1987 , the EPA did a laborious review of the relative seriousness of America 's environmental problems , it ranked old hazardous-waste sites below 30 others . |
| 11 | As before , it is the Standard that we turn to and , as a measure of its interest , it devoted 10 column inches to the event in the issue before the opening , and a further 24 inches in the week afterwards ! |
| 12 | First , it used national income figures to show the size of the problem ; secondly , its economic analysis was a genuinely dynamic one , showing clearly how the inflationary spiral was operating . |
| 13 | It bore branch-coloured collar patches of rank ; these were replaced for all officers by subdued khaki patches by an order of April 1941 , to be implemented from October 1941 , but the outbreak of war disrupted this programme , and many photographs show uniforms still bearing coloured patches long after that date . |
| 14 | In Washington , the Combined Anglo-American Chiefs of Staff Committee was reactivated , and it proposed massive rearmament programmes for both countries . |
| 15 | Boatswain ’ , no doubt knew how to entertain an audience , just as the Shatford Players had done : ‘ … after it was entangled in the net , it received seventeen musket balls from the Greyhound Cutter ’ ( Gosh ! ) ; ‘ … it was dragged to the shore by seven horses … ’ |
| 16 | But it stipulated that cabinet decisions should be taken by majority vote , rather than by consensus as the National Party wanted . |
| 17 | The problem was considered particularly vexing because , as the research of contemporaries showed , it affected middle class women most . |
| 18 | At times it seemed that price increases would be favoured as a means of raising self-financing and reducing pressure on the capital market ; at others that rises would be deprecated as contributing to inflation . |
| 19 | It seemed that bingo afternoons left her so exhausted both physically and emotionally that she never had enough energy left to cook an evening meal . |
| 20 | It seemed that record companies were always too interested in other places to look . |
| 21 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |
| 22 | ’ It seemed that time scales were important to him . |
| 23 | It surveyed all Member States , and recorded that : |
| 24 | By tilting bargaining power towards labour , it encouraged big pay claims . |
| 25 | It anticipated that business failures of established companies will continue to rise into the first quarter of 192 and did not expect to see a significant fall in the level of failures for up to 18 months . |
| 26 | The company said it shipped 50,000 revenue systems , a first-quarter record up 16% , including 13,000 Sparcstation 2s , 15,000 IPXs and 12,000 assorted . |
| 27 | The colonial state was a peculiar extension of the metropolitan capitalist state , in that it established political authority relations at the point of production and expanded state control over marketing . |
| 28 | It covered ten rape cases in 1971 , but reported only three cases not covered in the other five newspapers . |
| 29 | It included three paedophile books called Ben and a magazine named The Stud Boys . |
| 30 | Part of the idea may have been a selfish desire to limit citizenship to as few people as possible , now that it brought greater material advantages . |