Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the pound slipped through the fingers of the ERM last September and plunged in value against important trading currencies , it became Golden Wednesday instead . |
| 2 | The invention of printing , a key technical stage in the technology of distribution , had remarkable early effects in that it made technical distribution much easier but in conditions of relatively unaltered social distribution . |
| 3 | By voting with the Government , it let Labour walk away . |
| 4 | Laing admits that the Spanish company was bought out of desperation and it cost United Biscuits dearly . |
| 5 | Fashion retailer Next was on everybody 's buy list as it boosted taxable profits threefold . |
| 6 | It faced certain doom either at the polls or at the hands of the National Union of Mineworkers . |
| 7 | As a mass medium nationally it achieved full status only in 1959 when it started printing in London , dropped Manchester from the mast-head and was distributed nationally like the other Fleet Street dailies . |
| 8 | Virgin 's determined to fight , on Thursday it began legal action here in the United States . |
| 9 | The government 's emphasis on cash crop production was criticized on the grounds that it favoured wealthy exporters rather than small farmers and had hindered industrial development . |
| 10 | Thus new furniture would be defective if it contained live woodworm even though the presence of the woodworm posed no threat of personal injury . |
| 11 | We must entertain doubts about Baden-Powell 's enthusiasm for Hooligans , and the extent to which it represented Edwardian wish-fulfilment rather than real accomplishment . |
| 12 | Despite the apparent decisiveness of Adenauer 's foreign policy , therefore , some have argued that there lay a fundamental ambivalence at the bottom of it , symbolised by the choice of his home town , Bonn , as the new capital : it represented Western orientation all right but , at the same time , it was very obviously only a provisional arrangement . |
| 13 | But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water . |
| 14 | It took considerable time here for the work of the CAB to be understood but its place is now firmly established . |
| 15 | After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen . |
| 16 | Moreover , it had serious consequences abroad . |
| 17 | In fact Mr Hingston found a slightly unusual account in that it had instant access so long as withdrawals were made by post . |
| 18 | Whatever may have been said in the 1930s — even if it reflected current views then — cannot be correct today . |
| 19 | Like the reading of Samuel Smiles or the practice of other forms of ‘ self-help ’ and ‘ self-improvement ’ it replaced bourgeois success more often than it prepared for it . |
| 20 | In this respect Ferguson thought that the Warner Bros film was a good indication of what could be achieved by Hollywood when it tackled social problems honestly and he summed it up by returning to one of his favourite points about Hollywood that ‘ even half a loaf on the national stomach is at least nourishment taken in ’ . |
| 21 | The EC on Oct. 22 called on Milosevic to use his influence to end ethnic cleansing in Bosnia , for which it held Bosnian Serbs chiefly responsible , and warned that military measures could be taken if the UN flight ban over Bosnia was breached . |