Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It led young Dundas to form an unusual view of the institution over which he was later to preside . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It advised individual anglers to obtain local information from the NRA . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It seemed sheer lunacy to share such intimate sleeping arrangements . |
| 14 | As it happened American efforts to restrict Japanese expansion precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It allowed Russian citizens to hold hard-currency accounts , and permitted all Russian firms to engage in foreign trade . |
| 18 | One notable feature of the gold standard was that it allowed automatic adjustment to take place via changes in expenditure and output . |
| 19 | First , it enabled clueless people to quote ‘ soul ’ , then it allowed intelligent people to get away with expressing fake emotions . |
| 20 | We had to contend with some extremely high winds and found it needed extra guys to hold upright . |
| 21 | It chartered military planes to transport passengers , allowed the airlines to charter foreign aircraft and crews and recruit foreign pilots , allowed some international carriers to carry passengers on domestic routes , and provided financial support to the airlines to keep other employees in work . |
| 22 | One morning the young man was seized with a fit , in Dr. Prior 's presence , of ‘ such a frightful nature that it required strong nerves to witness same in those who are used to such sights ’ . |
| 23 | Although it required official sanction to perform intersexing , Roirbak doubted whether Jahsaxa was careless enough not to have seen to that . |
| 24 | It required local authorities to establish maternity and child welfare committees , to include at least two women , and specified services for which grants would now be made available including home helps , food for expectant and nursing mothers and children under five , creches and day nurseries . |
| 25 | Specifically , it urged Western business to provide financial incentives to bring about the introduction of the market economy in the region . |
| 26 | First , it enabled clueless people to quote ‘ soul ’ , then it allowed intelligent people to get away with expressing fake emotions . |
| 27 | The GPS system made its public debut in the recent Gulf War when it enabled allied troops to navigate at night across hundreds of miles of desert to within a few metres . |
| 28 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 29 | It was fair to say that , as soon as the company realized what was happening , it took prompt steps to certify the situation . |
| 30 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |