Example sentences of "it [vb past] all [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still chuckle when I think of that deadly , German secret weapon with its trunks , whiskers and puzzled expression and the panic it caused all those years ago . |
| 2 | It rained all that night , but that did n't stop a visit to Aunt Marjorie 's at Wimbledon . |
| 3 | It ordered all competent authorities " to take measures to rectify the abuses and to guarantee the genuine exercise of the rights of all Bulgarian citizens without distinction of nationality , origin , creed , sex , race , education [ or ] social and material status " . |
| 4 | But to the Hebrew mind it covered all human relationships . |
| 5 | It covered all manual workers and those earning up to a given sum — 430 a year by 1942 . |
| 6 | It required all federal agencies to take into account the environmental impact of all their proposed actions by preparing environmental impact statements which had to be approved before the construction of ‘ major ’ projects . |
| 7 | It required all independent schools to be registered , and abolished the previous category of ‘ recognised as efficient ’ . |
| 8 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 9 | It was not itself a centre of manufacturing , but it outstripped all other ports as a point of transit for English exports and became thereby a major entrepot of international trade . |
| 10 | It took all five teachers and the matron to lift the enormous woman and stagger with her out of the room . |
| 11 | And it took all this time to get here . |
| 12 | It banned all political parties , social organizations or mass movements involved in inciting ethnic or racial hostility , using violence on ethnic , racial or religious grounds , or agitating for violation of the territorial integrity of the USSR or any of its union or autonomous republics , autonomous oblasts or okrugs . |
| 13 | And we went to the one next to it and it had all naked women in it . |
| 14 | The Iraqi government had informed the UN that same evening that it accepted all 12 UN resolutions without conditions . |
| 15 | It was so successful that it replaced all other control methods and the insect ceased to be a major pest . |
| 16 | Maybe it explained all those girls in his past as well . |
| 17 | In 1891 Salt published a pamphlet on Humanitarianism , a subject on which he frequently lectured , since it embraced all those matters about which he held strong opinions . |
| 18 | Nor did it believe in hopes expressed by Saudi Arabia that the six countries involved could become militarily self-sufficient , since it characterised all these states as ‘ military clients of Western states ’ . |