Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | East Anglia and the South-West continued to grow , as did the South-East until 1966 , then it experienced net loss owing to the massive haemorrhage from the capital . |
| 2 | As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals . |
| 3 | Its deliberations had been hurried , its request for evidence stressed the need for a brevity viewed by many as excessive and it lacked sufficient resources to produce a credible alternative to any Government proposals . |
| 4 | It led young Dundas to form an unusual view of the institution over which he was later to preside . |
| 5 | But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straightforward computer graphics . |
| 6 | It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign . |
| 7 | It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign . |
| 8 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 9 | The answer is Yes , but it would have taken much longer and with the Government 's 1994 Review so imminent it made good sense to push on with the change process . |
| 10 | It made public declarations supporting the work done by purity groups , insisting that child prostitution was one of the burning issues of the day . |
| 11 | In this and other cited areas ( such as the development of high-rise flats and the commercial redevelopment of numerous town centres since the 1950s ) , central government did more than simply exhort — it provided financial incentives to help secure compliance . |
| 12 | In respect of the Genocide Act , the judge said , it created criminal offences described in the Genocide Convention that were not previously criminal . |
| 13 | It was very simple , efficient , and reliable in operation , with the minor disadvantage that the vaporizer required preheating for a few minutes before the engine could be started ; when running , it retained sufficient heat to ignite the injected fuel . |
| 14 | Harney 's death was a political assassination , it triggered nationwide riots followed by the biggest murder investigation South Africa has seen . |
| 15 | It helped fourth-century Christians to come to terms with the paradox that the privileged , wealthy , and powerful post-Constantinian church actually was also the church of the martyrs . |
| 16 | It advised individual anglers to obtain local information from the NRA . |
| 17 | Since the Great War , 1914–18 , it has been practiced by wage-earners , suffering from long periods of unemployment and underemployment , so drastic that it seemed abject folly to produce children who could neither be adequately nourished nor sufficiently educated to secure a satisfactory livelihood . |
| 18 | It seemed sheer lunacy to share such intimate sleeping arrangements . |
| 19 | As it happened American efforts to restrict Japanese expansion precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 . |
| 20 | In 1971–79 it approved financial assistance amounting to £87.5 million ( at 1979 prices ) for the Highlands and Islands as a whole , of which £52.2 million for loans and shares ( including projects directly administered by the Board ) and £35.4 million grants ( see Appendix 3 ) . |
| 21 | It predicted future power needs in the classic manner , by assuming they would continue to grow at 9 per cent per year . |
| 22 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |
| 23 | And the central government 's socialism , it 's restriction of socialist rights to Libyan nationals , set the seal on the discrimination between foreign and national labour because it encouraged Libyan employers to employ foreigners . |
| 24 | It begged male comps faced with a female colleague to " Be kind to her if you ca n't wed her or shift her , " and went on : State broadly and fully wherein we are sinners Remembering that many of us are breadwinners For mothers and sisters whom we must assist , hence We claim with yourselves equal right to existence |
| 25 | It allowed Russian citizens to hold hard-currency accounts , and permitted all Russian firms to engage in foreign trade . |
| 26 | One notable feature of the gold standard was that it allowed automatic adjustment to take place via changes in expenditure and output . |
| 27 | First , it enabled clueless people to quote ‘ soul ’ , then it allowed intelligent people to get away with expressing fake emotions . |
| 28 | By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy . |
| 29 | It achieved overseas sales exceeding £500,000 in April . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , it released new figures stating that 23,531 people had passed through the camps between 1944 and 1962 , including 14,647 political internees , and that around 300 had died there " from natural causes or as a result of force " . |