Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals . |
| 2 | It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign . |
| 3 | It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign . |
| 4 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 5 | The answer is Yes , but it would have taken much longer and with the Government 's 1994 Review so imminent it made good sense to push on with the change process . |
| 6 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 7 | When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area . |
| 8 | She only had one cow , it was all she could afford , but it provided enough milk to go with the porridge in the morning and the potatoes at other meals . |
| 9 | It was very simple , efficient , and reliable in operation , with the minor disadvantage that the vaporizer required preheating for a few minutes before the engine could be started ; when running , it retained sufficient heat to ignite the injected fuel . |
| 10 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 11 | Since the Great War , 1914–18 , it has been practiced by wage-earners , suffering from long periods of unemployment and underemployment , so drastic that it seemed abject folly to produce children who could neither be adequately nourished nor sufficiently educated to secure a satisfactory livelihood . |
| 12 | It seemed sheer lunacy to share such intimate sleeping arrangements . |
| 13 | It regained some bounce to end the week nudging DM3.0400 . |
| 14 | One notable feature of the gold standard was that it allowed automatic adjustment to take place via changes in expenditure and output . |
| 15 | And now , despite the fact that he 'd held her in his arms , it needed little imagination to guess that he did n't quite trust her . |
| 16 | He was joined by Peter Sheppard a few years later when it became apparent that so much information was potentially available from flight recorders that it needed another man to help interpret all the data . |
| 17 | It needed some spark to concentrate his mind , something to take him out of the ruck . |
| 18 | She managed the ice-cream dessert a bit better — it required little effort to swallow — though she could n't taste a thing . |
| 19 | Although it required official sanction to perform intersexing , Roirbak doubted whether Jahsaxa was careless enough not to have seen to that . |
| 20 | It required much experimentation to determine the properties of air , mercury , alcohol and other thermometric substances , as well as devising methods for constructing and calibrating instruments . |
| 21 | Specifically , it urged Western business to provide financial incentives to bring about the introduction of the market economy in the region . |
| 22 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 23 | It took all day to cross the Nullarbor . |
| 24 | It took little time to decide that her new mama was just like the doll , with her big blue eyes , and her made up face and blonde hair . |
| 25 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
| 26 | It took considerable time to charge the palladium fully and Fleischmann was in Britain when , one night , Pons ' son was sent to the laboratory to reduce the current . |
| 27 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 28 | By 1920 it was appreciated that the Great War had brought about many changes , particularly in Europe and around the Mediterranean area ; Europe 's domination of the world had been weakened , and there was a marked decline in ‘ colonisation ’ , as well as a gradual change from ‘ British Empire ’ to ‘ British Commonwealth ’ , although it took another war to finalise that process . |
| 29 | Engaged as consultants , Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton half solved the problem by changing the rear suspension , but it took another outsider to put BRM on the right track . |
| 30 | Praxis says it took less time to install the ANDF version of the program than the 15 minutes it takes to compile the C sources of Wingz . |