Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a disgraceful piece of television , in as much as it failed completely to set one point of view against another so that genuine truth could emerge . |
| 2 | He said the council received about £200,000 a year to act as the collecting agent for the water authority but it cost nearly double that to do it . |
| 3 | Westminster is a factual and somewhat pedestrian programme and , in the past , it tried not to offer political judgements . |
| 4 | It turned out to include many , mainly informal , transactions eg advice on redrafting work , words of praise ; informal questioning to assist understanding ; humour ; praise encouragement to finish work , advice on presentation and layout . |
| 5 | Ecgfrith remained undeterred , however , and his army had traversed Strathmore when it turned aside to experience total defeat on 20 May at Nechtanesmere , otherwise known as Dún Nechtain ( AU s.a. 684 : AT p. 209 ) and as the Lake of the Heron ( HB ch. 57 ) , now Dunnichen in Forfarshire . |
| 6 | A report on the shooting was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service , but it decided not to take any action against Miss Hobson . |
| 7 | But the third time they had turned it up so it kept on going big waves so I I missed the steps so the erm one of the lifeguards |
| 8 | It sped off leaving this wreck and its injured driver . |
| 9 | The programme in which he was seen chasing his fire engine before it sped off drew some criticism from the Berkshire and Reading Fire Service . |
| 10 | It went on to give possible aims and objectives for the curriculum , but in the spirit of showing the process of curriculum appraisal that HMI , and the participating LEAs , hope will be attempted by schools . |
| 11 | It went on to highlight another 66 reports from various parts of the world of serious reactions to the drug . |
| 12 | It went on to sell four million copies around the world , the lion 's share , it was noted with some satisfaction within Virgin , in territories where Virgin had their own label . |
| 13 | And it went on to enjoy sporadic mail and fare-payers use before being put into regular use six years later to bolster lightly loaded services serving this most rural of communities . |
| 14 | But it went on to slam British Rail for using ancient commuter trains with parts dating back to the steam age . |
| 15 | But the new bloke sent it back to me and it went on to win six races , and I felt so sick for the lads . |
| 16 | Its programme called for tax cuts , reduced immigration , and the abolition of traffic wardens and was not taken seriously by many observers , although it went on to win parliamentary representation in the September 1991 general election [ see p. 38444 ] . |
| 17 | It went on to make two historic recommendations : that the Institution should give more overt support to the Society of Surveying Technicians , formed in 1970 by the General Council of the RICS , pointing out that the notion that the profession needed persons with technical qualification to ‘ come in at the bottom ’ and stay there was insensitive to human aspirations and naïve in its recognition of the Society 's worth ; and that practitioners should henceforth be required to undertake structured Continuing Professional Development ( CPD ) — a courageous and necessary proposal ( see below ) . |
| 18 | Henry III 's rapprochement with Louis IX between 1254 and 1259 had brought the two courts into a closer relationship , while the diplomatic and juridical presence at Paris which it necessitated thereafter strengthened English connections with northern France . |
| 19 | ‘ Although , looking back , the recession was not perhaps as bad as it might have been , it did nevertheless cause some strains between booksellers and publishers , ’ the new president of the Publishers Association , Sir Roger Elliott of OUP , acknowledged . |
| 20 | The difficulty about regarding this as the whole story , however , is that the court does not seem to have been in doubt that the purpose of the additional charges was to prevent the release of the applicants , but it did not regard this as conclusive . |
| 21 | This may have been Nicholas 's opinion of himself , but it did not affect many of his actions . |
| 22 | Accompanying this article was a photograph which we realise now should not have been published , as it did not bear any connection to the article . |
| 23 | At the time Mr. Winterbone signed this document it did not contain any disposition at all , nor did it even contain any appointment of executors . |
| 24 | If the document is to be regarded technically as a matter of law , as a codicil , of course it need not contain any appointment of executors , but the position still is that when it was signed by Mr. Winterbone it did not contain any effective disposition at all . |
| 25 | It did not reach 70 million , and the original target was not achieved before the outbreak of war . |
| 26 | The one good thing about the display is that it did not damage any of the glorious neo-Renaissance interiors , originally designed as a bank by A. Weihl in 1892–4 . |
| 27 | Clyde also said that it did not expect any significant impact from last year 's Budget tax changes which restricted tax relief on future exploration spending . |
| 28 | In the 1970 election the Tories received the votes of 33.2 per cent of the electorate ( as against 36.4 per cent for Labour in 1966 ) , and although this was enough to give them a safe parliamentary majority , it did not reflect massive and determined popular support for the ‘ Selsdon ’ programme of trade union reform plus ‘ rolling back of the frontiers of government ’ ( the promised direct tax cuts were popular , but that does not prove much ) . |
| 29 | It did not reflect particular animus over Korea but more a feeling of frustration at the setbacks encountered by American policy in the Far East in the previous two years . |
| 30 | Because it did not reflect Scottish Office policy its development went unrecorded , such work being undifferentiated from normal outpatient sessions for statistical purposes . |