Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one his suggestion was approved and tried , it wiped out all incidents of damage and robbery . |
| 2 | It concerned only new developments and enabled local authorities for the first time to make town-planning schemes ‘ as respects any land which is in course of development or appears likely to be used for building purposes ’ . |
| 3 | New Zealand has another Irish pub — and it sold over 50 kegs of Guinness in its first three weeks , well ahead of any other beer it stocks . |
| 4 | As one of the best records of 1990 it was actually a lucky escape that it sold so few copies , missed Top Of The Pops , slipped the chance of a slot on youth TV and lost the chase for Sunday newspaper publicity . |
| 5 | Such was its popularity that two reprints were ready in May and June of the same year ; Faber and Faber published the poem as a pamphlet in September , and it sold almost 12,000 copies . |
| 6 | A massive , grey stone Victorian building , it housed over 1600 inmates , twice its allotted amount . |
| 7 | In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners . |
| 8 | When the Labour government was elected in 1945 , it produced more radical proposals — nationalisation of the local authority and voluntary hospitals . |
| 9 | Indeed it made very few references to the Mediterranean initiative unlike the heavy coverage of the Soviet scheme to neutralise the Persian Gulf . |
| 10 | One had tried using a hand-held scanner for the job but had given up because it made too many mistakes . |
| 11 | In the western provinces , where the newly established , populist , Reform Party had campaigned strongly against the agreement on the grounds that it made too many concessions to Quebec , the margins of rejection were the highest in the country . |
| 12 | It drew together several countries in a common body which controlled important areas of the economy ; it was a sign of Franco-German rapprochement and it paved the way for the full removal of post-war industrial controls on West Germany by the Western allies ; it succeeded in overcoming doubt and opposition from politicians and industrialists ; and it created a workable machinery . |
| 13 | If you were to pick up and weigh that apple you are about to eat , you would find it weighed about five ounces . |
| 14 | At birth it weighed about 40 kilos . |
| 15 | It used only natural materials : wood and stone and glass . |
| 16 | The well-remembered texture of it triggered off vivid flashes of memory , so that past and present blurred together , confusing her still further . |
| 17 | It occurred exactly four weeks after the frogs . |
| 18 | I have shown how the new and relatively autonomous movement for the installation of English as a central mechanism for general education became strengthened within civil society ; and furthermore how it built sufficiently strong links with the official state for its leaders to offer the service of the movement for the joint promotion of English as a cultural instrument of the nation-state . |
| 19 | It was not , of course , merely the noisome aspect which needed to be dealt with ; Asiatic cholera made its appearance in 19th-century Europe because it found virtually Asiatic conditions in the open sewers and cesspits of the great cities . |
| 20 | and he made it , you see I mean i it cost over twenty years ago told me I think those were too small . |
| 21 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 22 | When a minimum wage was introduced in the United States , it caused only large increases in black unemployment . |
| 23 | It received universally ecstatic reviews , and deservedly so . |
| 24 | In 1988 , it attracted over 15,000 visitors ; in 1990 , more than 200 artists took part . |
| 25 | No Women 's Open was held as it attracted so few entrants , so all gained automatic entry to the Grand Prix . |
| 26 | It attracted more retail savings than even the government , which spares no effort to tap the market . |
| 27 | Isobel stepped out into the corridor , quiet except for the ever-present low murmur of the station 's output as it played over unobtrusive speakers . |
| 28 | Both the size and the overall structure of the text helped enormously here , in that it comprised only 11 sentences totalling 130 words . |
| 29 | Vienna , Virginia-based America Online Inc said that it added over 25,000 subscribers to its bulletin board service in the last month : Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen has plans for the company . |
| 30 | Oxford old boy John Aldridge was looking for his 40th goal of the season … it came just two minutes after Durnin 's … and gave Aldridge the eclub record he was looking for . |