Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straightforward computer graphics . |
| 2 | It made public declarations supporting the work done by purity groups , insisting that child prostitution was one of the burning issues of the day . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it released new figures stating that 23,531 people had passed through the camps between 1944 and 1962 , including 14,647 political internees , and that around 300 had died there " from natural causes or as a result of force " . |
| 4 | A month later , PW made a breakthrough : it gained access to Mr Naqvi 's personal filing room where , among 6,000 files , it found the evidence it needed major customers colluding with BCCI in the falsification of accounting through the use of nominee arrangements , hold harmless arrangements and payment of fees to individuals to ensure cooperation , as well as proof of links between BCCI and the International Credit and Investment Corporation group . |
| 5 | Weighing in at 91 lbs , it broke all records winning the All Africa , Kenya and all tackle record . |
| 6 | I thought it required more teachers caring about their subjects as much as he obviously did . |
| 7 | Ductal cannulation was rated as ‘ easy ’ if cannulation could be achieved immediately , and as ‘ difficult ’ if it required repeated attempts leading to obvious trauma to the papilla . |
| 8 | In the churches , traditional orthodoxy of a more or less pre-Enlightenment character fought to retain its footing , but alongside it grew other movements ranging from what today would be called Conservative Evangelicalism to those which were consciously progressive , liberal and modern . |
| 9 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 10 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 11 | The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century . |
| 12 | An advisory body , it had 45 members representing the LCC , the City of London , six county councils , the Standing Joint Committee of Metropolitan Boroughs and 129 local authorities ranging from county boroughs to rural districts . |
| 13 | And it had other things going for it too . |
| 14 | The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists . |
| 15 | It had French windows opening onto a communal terrace and that beautiful view of Bristol that you get from Clifton and which she clearly loves so much . |
| 16 | It had 30 children attending . |