Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sought continually to encourage teachers to reevaluate classroom practice — both in curriculum content and methodology . |
| 2 | Use of carbon fibre reinforced tube and rod not only added to frame rigidity , it enabled lighter and smaller designs to be created such as described already in Chapter Two , and it led eventually to sail designs with multiple stand-offs for improved aerodynamic characteristics . |
| 3 | Dillons passed the cheque onto Childline after its parent Pentos received it from Legal & General Property as a token of thanks after it moved quickly to open branches of Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop and Athena in the Buttermarket Shopping Centre , Ipswich , in time for the centre 's first day of trading on 1st October . |
| 4 | If it went about accusing companies of doing terrible things with their accounts and could not then sustain the accusation , its credibility would quickly collapse . |
| 5 | ( We only asked them to comment here if it did not meet expectations — either they all had low expectations or the conference was a high standard . ) |
| 6 | Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) . |
| 7 | Because the Company was intended to provide an opportunity for all English merchants interested in the Indian trade to take part , it did not treat shareholdings as permanent commitments . |
| 8 | And it did not pass complaints to us , or our chairman Sir Bob Reid . ’ |
| 9 | Indeed , a National Economic Development Office report showed that low pay itself was a probable cause of inefficiency ; given the cheapness of labour , it did not pay employers to organize their own side more effectively . |
| 10 | EGG producers yesterday demanded the resignation of Suffolk Coastal MP John Gummer as Agriculture Minister after his department admitted it did not pay farmers enough compensation for the slaughter of poultry flocks after the 1988 salmonella-in-eggs scare . |
| 11 | And since the party was principally an election machine , it did not offer channels for new young talent . |
| 12 | It did not need wells dug or tractors purchased . |
| 13 | It did not have shoulders or long enveloping folds or a hood . |
| 14 | In Rayigam Korale , between Pasdun Korale and the coast , a local network survived , but it did not import cattle from the Southern Province because the Kalu Ganga made transportation from that direction impractical . |
| 15 | Its evocative power derived not only from its biblical roots , but also from the fact that it did not evoke clergy or hierarchy but rather the basic equality of all the baptized . |
| 16 | It did not help matters that about the time Rowell 's rather reluctant jab at some New Zealand rugby habits was being published it occupied space beside reports that the All Blacks had been over-vigorous — and sometimes over-the-top — in their match against New South Wales at Sydney . |
| 17 | Nynex Corp 's Nynex CableComms unit has bought three of the eight UK cable television companies that Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's PacTel Cable UK Ltd put on the market last June ( CI No 1,943 ) : Nynex has taken the Greater Manchester , Bolton and Derby franchises and while it did not disclose terms , says it plans to invest £1,000m over the next five to six years to provide local telecommunications networks in its British franchise areas ; the companies it acquired are in franchise areas where it already operates . |
| 18 | It did not take burglars and curious poisons to dispose of him . |
| 19 | ‘ Exactly , and it did n't improve matters from Alfred 's point of view when he discovered that she was already a couple of months pregnant by Matthew when she married him . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It did n't need stitches . |
| 21 | It did n't have documents inside , but that do n't mean nothing . |
| 22 | Were n't things when you were a little girl , it did n't have bits like that , a lot of things come in that we did n't use to have |
| 23 | The ancient nomes had used it as a kind of lift , but it did n't have wires — it went up and down by some force as mysterious as auntie 's gravy or whatever it was . |
| 24 | The holly , being the sort of holly that is sold on street corners in London at this time of year , must have cost a fortune and it did n't have berries on . |
| 25 | It did n't have walls of gingerbread . |
| 26 | Normally it did n't harm relationships in the long term but there were occasions when people could feel very hurt . |
| 27 | And it did n't list jobs . |
| 28 | I 'm told it 's the 43rd single release off the album they said they 'd split up after if it did n't outsell Guns N' Roses ( or something ) . |
| 29 | Er the majority of the local chapels were were w were responsible for er organizing soup kitchens for the kids , er S it did n't apply Sundays , it did n't apply Sundays . |
| 30 | Er the majority of the local chapels were were w were responsible for er organizing soup kitchens for the kids , er S it did n't apply Sundays , it did n't apply Sundays . |