Example sentences of "it [vb past] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Queen 's Speech at the opening of the new session of the Stormont parliament , it criticised the failure of the Government to give any commitment on a universal franchise and the Special Powers Act , but the only action it proposed was a low-key educational programme . |
| 2 | But it 'd been a good day last year , on the Monday holiday , and they had needed two coaches you see . |
| 3 | Cos I thought it 'd been a nice day we could of nipped down to Sainsbury 's |
| 4 | Now again , if it 'd been a full interview you might have death and service benefits and things of that nature which might and then when er I tapped it was obvious that you were gon na go for ANNA and you squashed from the second appointment right to the very end in the space of the two minutes . |
| 5 | But the tone and guest list at this party was very different ; here it seemed were the elusive Delhi jeunesse dorée . |
| 6 | But the locals did not always tolerate government by monks — perhaps suspecting what in this century has been established as a fact , that the abbey 's legal title to the authority it claimed was a tenth-century forgery . |
| 7 | The newspaper Noticias-El Diario printed photocopies of what it claimed was a 1961 report by Paraguayan police agent Pedro Prokopchuk to Antonio Campos Alum , the chief of political police . |
| 8 | On Oct. 20 Japan expressed regret over what it claimed was an alleged breach by France of an agreement not to disclose preparations for the shipment . |
| 9 | On Aug. 24 the 13 parties of the Co-ordinating Committee of the Democratic Opposition condemned what it alleged was a recent army massacre of civilians , including some 12 schoolchildren , in Doba , in the south . |
| 10 | All it needed was a good tug . |
| 11 | The women were told it would soon be mended , but by the time it came for bed it still was n't repaired , although probably all it needed was a new fuse . |
| 12 | subsequently after about ten flights , and porting over the books , and speaking to people who serviced them during the war years , they discovered that all it needed was a well-placed whack with a hammer on the trailing edge of the aileron . |
| 13 | With a wry smile he thought to himself that all it needed was a few thousand square miles of northern forest such as might be found in Norway or Canada and they would look completely right . |
| 14 | All it needed was a little glue . |
| 15 | Insisting that all it needed was a little Lux , he put the painting on the floor and began scrubbing . |
| 16 | All it required was the moral and political will , and control of the physical means . |
| 17 | All it contained was a small jar of capers . |
| 18 | In the context of German Hellenism as a whole , what it meant was an ever-widening gulf between classics as a study and the creative art and life of the time . |
| 19 | ‘ The snow 's very loose on the Wildhorn at this time of year and all it took was a small charge to start the ball rolling , if you 'll excuse the pun . |
| 20 | THE United States yesterday threw its support behind what it said was a new effort by UN special Angola envoy Alioune Blondin Beye to revive Angolan peace talks . |
| 21 | THE United States yesterday threw its support behind what it said was a new effort by UN special Angola envoy Alioune Blondin Beye to revive Angolan peace talks . |
| 22 | A Sudanese army spokesman on Dec. 20 criticized what it said was the Kenyan government 's support for " certain foreign circles and the colonialist churches " which he said were trying to bring together the divided rebel groups in the south and to persuade them to secede . |
| 23 | Amnesty denounced what it said was the general failure by the Brazilian authorities to take action . |
| 24 | It had been no simple journey . |
| 25 | Others interested in this Ocean may have already found their choicest figures : the one that brought the Pacific 's surge so very much alive for me — when hitherto it had been no more than the muffled beatings of a warm , blue and very distant sea — related to an event seven miles above the surface of the earth , some time during a night in 1984 . |
| 26 | When she 'd moved in , it had been no more than a yard full of builders ' rubbish . |
| 27 | No , Stephanie thought later , it had been no more and no less than could have been hoped : a reasonable coming together of people close to each other , not by choice , reluctant in many cases . |
| 28 | For her , their lovemaking might have been an almost mystical fusing of bodies and identities , yet for him it had been no more than a roll in the hay . |
| 29 | It had been a bumpy ride , through the tail end of a thunderstorm . |
| 30 | It had been a narrow escape and I was impressed . |