Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj -er] [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 It recommended better training and status for youth leaders , a building programme of new premises and facilities , and the setting up of a Youth Service Development Council .
2 The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck .
3 Iron was used for the shank as it provided greater strength and longer life than bronze would have done .
4 Although for the upper classes the Pax Romana in the age of the Antonines ( second century AD ) came as a great opportunity to concentrate on and uphold the customs of their local town or district , for humbler men it Provided wider horizons and unprecedented opportunities for travel .
5 He explained to me that it must be stronger because it contained stronger bonds and more of them than any previous material .
6 Until after Philip 's death in 1746 it was still an administrative and not a policy-making body ; but in the second half of the century it acquired greater power and independence .
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