Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] that " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 7 | An obvious trophy , it afforded irrefutable proof that the victim was male , and obtaining it gave the additional satisfaction of dishonouring the corpse . |
| 8 | It rejected any idea that an organisation should ever be created to suit the individual characteristics of people . |
| 9 | It happened one day that the master went away upon his business . ) |
| 10 | Temporary upsurges in militancy during the year , in particular around the question of British intervention in Russia and Ireland , provoked principled stands at national and local levels , not least because it deflected anti-Bolshevik propaganda that had been used consistently against Labour . |
| 11 | At a national level the Triple Alliance collapsed in April ; with it went socialist hope that a united union movement could challenge the government . |
| 12 | However , it emerged last night that a reporter from London Weekend Television unwittingly tipped off residents about the raid when he phoned contacts on the estate to ask if there had been a raid — before it had actually happened . |
| 13 | It emerged last night that Tony Hendley saved the life of two dying youngsters by donating his kidneys . |
| 14 | It emerged last night that Ynys Mon 's MP Ieuan Wyn Jones has met new Welsh Secretary John Redwood to discuss the future of the hall . |
| 15 | It appeared last night that some of the staff entitled to 10 to 15 per cent of the shares might not take them up , but all the key board members will , thus ensuring the success of the scheme . |
| 16 | Although he added that no formal response had been received to the offer , it appeared last night that The Face was hoping to negotiate a further reduction . |
| 17 | It said last night that details were disclosed in leaked drafts of six forthcoming reports on specialist health services in the capital . |
| 18 | A local authority would be expected to offer these services before seeking an order unless it had clear evidence that the parents would be unwilling or incapable of making use of them . |
| 19 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 20 | Indeed , it had even baulked over the European Payments Union for five months until it gained complete assurance that it would still be able to retain sole control over sterling as an international reserve currency . |