Example sentences of "it [vb pp] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not till later was it diagnosed that the mental breakdown which destroyed Hoskyns crept upon him for a year or more before he died . |
| 2 | The stockings they knitted went on to the feet of the British Army , and so great was the demand and so determinedly was it met that the Romantic writer Southey called them the " Terrible Knitters of Dent " , terrible meaning not bad but fierce , terribly good . |
| 3 | When is it envisaged that the new Merlin helicopter will be on site in Portland ? |
| 4 | He can only have it corrected if the official Hansard writers can be shown to have misreported what he said . |
| 5 | Even if a new underground concourse is built — that is one of the proposals that is being advanced — nowhere in the Bill is it proposed that a single extra train should run on the Victoria , Piccadilly or Northern lines , or on any of the other lines that run through King 's Cross . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , the dating evidence for this building development has not yet been fully established , nor is it known if the pagan shrine was dismantled in the middle or later years of the fourth century , when presumably the site became purely agricultural , maybe as part of a vine-growing estate . |