Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , it is possible that the ratio of hidden to known use provided by Method 4 is nearer to the true ratio than the others because , although it involved less accurate determination of identity codes , the larger numbers of nominees involved may dilute the effect of extreme cases . |
| 32 | Instead Smith Kline chose just twenty-five key distributors , with whom it maintained far closer contact than was usual practice . |
| 33 | It drew together several countries in a common body which controlled important areas of the economy ; it was a sign of Franco-German rapprochement and it paved the way for the full removal of post-war industrial controls on West Germany by the Western allies ; it succeeded in overcoming doubt and opposition from politicians and industrialists ; and it created a workable machinery . |
| 34 | If you were to pick up and weigh that apple you are about to eat , you would find it weighed about five ounces . |
| 35 | At birth it weighed about 40 kilos . |
| 36 | It healed better that way , than being constantly dressed and |
| 37 | Diana 's got it taped as royal spoof hits street |
| 38 | It used only natural materials : wood and stone and glass . |
| 39 | It occurred exactly four weeks after the frogs . |
| 40 | I have shown how the new and relatively autonomous movement for the installation of English as a central mechanism for general education became strengthened within civil society ; and furthermore how it built sufficiently strong links with the official state for its leaders to offer the service of the movement for the joint promotion of English as a cultural instrument of the nation-state . |
| 41 | It was not , of course , merely the noisome aspect which needed to be dealt with ; Asiatic cholera made its appearance in 19th-century Europe because it found virtually Asiatic conditions in the open sewers and cesspits of the great cities . |
| 42 | and he made it , you see I mean i it cost over twenty years ago told me I think those were too small . |
| 43 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 44 | It was called the Wyrmberg and it rose almost one half of a mile above the green valley ; a mountain huge , grey and upside down . |
| 45 | At the time of publication ( 1987 ) it listed almost 300 Holtzapffel lathes still in existence in the world with 20 per cent of them in the United States . |
| 46 | When a minimum wage was introduced in the United States , it caused only large increases in black unemployment . |
| 47 | ‘ It caused so much pressure inside the home that I 'm not surprised Denise has had enough . |
| 48 | The brass work was cast in the brass foundry , and from there it was sent to the brass finishing shop for machining and cleaning up , afterwards traversing the plating department where it received either venetian bronze , oxidised silver or plain brass lacquer finish , next passing to position No 3 for fixing in the carriage . |
| 49 | It received universally ecstatic reviews , and deservedly so . |
| 50 | Although the fostering of links between schools , parents and the community was one of the main aims of PNP , it received notably less attention than the other three . |
| 51 | A sensible idea , it received particularly strong support from Italy and West Germany . |
| 52 | In any event , though teachers continued to give reading their attention throughout the PNP period , it received very little attention in the Authority 's INSET and support programmes . |
| 53 | In 1988 , it attracted over 15,000 visitors ; in 1990 , more than 200 artists took part . |
| 54 | It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out . |
| 55 | No Women 's Open was held as it attracted so few entrants , so all gained automatic entry to the Grand Prix . |
| 56 | It attracted more retail savings than even the government , which spares no effort to tap the market . |
| 57 | But it ate so much procession power that most PCs could n't drive it fast enough , so hardly anyone bought it . |
| 58 | Although the 1935 general election confirmed its position as the only main challenger for the left-wing vote , in that election it secured only 154 MPs — less than a quarter of the total membership of the Commons . |
| 59 | In this it was perhaps too successful , for it provoked so much hostility from the car lobby that reprinting of the book ceased some two years after it was first published . |
| 60 | Both the size and the overall structure of the text helped enormously here , in that it comprised only 11 sentences totalling 130 words . |