Example sentences of "it [vb past] [conj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no fundamental weakness in the PWR design and British safety standards would ensure that it operated as well as the best . |
| 2 | AST Research Inc is determined to come out as one of the winners in the bitter battle for share in the personal computer market , and yesterday it announced that rather than let the business go in the spin-off of the TE Electronics manufacturing operations , it had made an offer for Tandy Corp 's personal computer manufacturing operations , which had been accepted . |
| 3 | It found that more than £300million a year is spent on employing staff to type for 600,000 civil servants and 22 cabinet ministers . |
| 4 | Erm well you know , from my experience in the mother and baby home , it seemed that even when girls did n't want to live in Flats , |
| 5 | It claimed that more than 600 opposition party members had been detained without trial since the dismissal of the PPP government in August 1990 [ see pp. 37652-53 ] . |
| 6 | The census of 1930 revealed the the state of affairs when it showed that more than twenty-two per cent of the population were ethnic and linguistic Germans . |
| 7 | It showed that more than 10% of normal pregnant women had two hour glucose concentrations after a 75 g glucose tolerance test of more than 8 mmol/l and were thus labelled as having impaired glucose tolerance . |
| 8 | A survey of the 2,000 or so companies quoted on The Stock Exchange , it showed that less than 5% of executive directors were women ( 428 ) , and that the future did not look much better — when the numbers of men and women in management and on the board were added together , the ratio was one woman to every 35 men . |
| 9 | And there it hung until long after I 'd left to go to secondary school in Camelford . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's right , ’ she kept saying to herself I was glad you had warned me about the Rent Restriction Act , because it began as soon as I arrived . |
| 11 | It worked as well as the others , the 9,600bps Fax Receive mode offering a useful speed boost over the Pocket Gem . |
| 12 | High purpose was something that could be recognized in someone , like a gleam in the eye or a tone of voice ; it meant that even when that person dabbled in something doubtful , they undoubtedly had good reason for doing so . |
| 13 | Based on eye-witness testimonies by health workers , it concluded that more than 7,000 people had died during Iraqi occupation and that an estimated 17,000 had been held and subjected to torture in camps in Iraq and Kuwait . |