Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From then on it became big game and for fifty years the only ones to leave China were dead . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It produced coarse yarn and employed at its peak only about 550 workers , including many parish apprentices . |
| 4 | It produced more tension and more time away from my family . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Marx condemned capitalism because it frustrated human potential and self-actualization , but believed it was a necessary stage in human dialectical development . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Iron was used for the shank as it provided greater strength and longer life than bronze would have done . |
| 14 | The decline in effective demand also affected the legitimacy of capitalism since it created mass unemployment and poverty at home and anti-imperialism abroad . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was part of the larger movement of self-improvement by working people and not surprisingly , given Nonconformist domination , it used religious language and insisted on ‘ conversion ’ and renunciation . |
| 17 | It sucked all warmth and courage from his body , leaving him chilled to the bone and fearful of even the smallest movement in the big house . |
| 18 | It threshed this way and that , as the giant tried , uselessly , to pull free of the Trees ' cruel grip . |
| 19 | It received net interest and dividends in the 1990 fiscal year that accounted for more than 20% of its operating profits . |
| 20 | The exposed skin was flushed and glowing ; here and there it resembled tanned leather and , in some cases , it looked as if it had split and healed , and split again . |
| 21 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 22 | He said , ‘ It happened this morning but there was no one to send till I came home from school . ’ |
| 23 | It rained that Summer and when you thought it could not rain any more , it rained again . |
| 24 | It rained all day and they played out in the mud and the parents were n't very pleased with me . |
| 25 | In style it owed much to Ancient Rome but was not only a copy of it ; it showed Byzantine influence and also new ideas , adapting itself to its own period . |
| 26 | In fact , the advice was almost certainly correct and , in any case , there is little room for doubt that if Elizabeth 's inheritance was revolutionary , it enjoyed immediate acquiescence and has manifestly been effective . |
| 27 | Not even hearing the rolling crackle above , she was conscious only of the moving light , as the footsteps began again and it swung this way and that , searching something out . |
| 28 | It blamed increasing competition and the costs of its redundancy programme . |
| 29 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
| 30 | The new year would see a disintegration of the unanimity of the DCAC 's supporters ; the committee had grave doubts about the wisdom of the PD march from Belfast to Derry , although it arranged material support and a welcoming rally for the marchers . |