Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that Iraq had achieved " a complicated scientific leap " when it successfully tested the launching . |
| 2 | First , it developed the concept of integrated and comprehensive provision ; secondly , in making a connection between school and wage-earning ‘ it successfully rendered the transition as a social and educational process ; thirdly , it made vocational guidance and after-care appear to be essential features of any youth employment scheme ; fourthly , it showed that the service could offer significant opportunities for exercising a personal influence over the adolescent and his family . |
| 3 | The space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth on April 29 following a five-day mission during which it successfully deployed the US$1,500 million Hubble Space Telescope jointly developed by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) and the European Space Agency ( ESA ) . |
| 4 | In a string of unconnected announcements , IBM Corp yesterday said that the version of DB2 for OS/2 is generally available after a successful beta test , that it has a set of software development tools for the object-oriented C++ language , and it duly launched the Thinkpad 720 . |
| 5 | The Prime Minister 's speech was eagerly anticipated by the educational and wider community and it duly received the full media treatment . |
| 6 | It duly approached the Educational Research Centre of the Essex Institute of Higher Education with the suggestion that a proposal for funding be made to the British Library Research and Development Department ( BLR&DD ) . |
| 7 | The changing relationship between the newspaper and its readers and the changing content of the newspaper had one other important impact on the long-term development of the press : it fundamentally altered the newspaper 's expectations of its readers . |
| 8 | Every thing was alright , though it rather took the wind out of my sails to know that I would n't get to speak to him after all . |
| 9 | It rather wiped the smile from Jenna 's face . |
| 10 | It rarely pushed a non-paying customer into bankruptcy . |
| 11 | Boston did not ignite the recombinant-DNA controversy but it vigorously seized the torch and raised it to national and worldwide visibility . |
| 12 | MI5 will remain as unaccountable as it always has been and since it blatantly ignored the 1952 directive for over three decades without once being publicly called to account there is no reason to believe that MI5 will be any more law-abiding now . |
| 13 | In early 1944 , Stilwell 's army began to advance from India , building a road as it slowly approached the Japanese base at Myitkyina , 240 kilometres distant . |
| 14 | Salgado 's photo-essay opens a window onto a world that seems authentically antique — as far off as when the Pyramids were being built — but it presumably touched a nerve with editors because it is also a parable of greed with global relevance . |
| 15 | This was designed to replace the existing arrangements whereby restrictive agreements had to be registered centrally , and it thereby brought the UK into line with the EC . |
| 16 | It thereby created the largest telecommunications company in Europe at the time . |
| 17 | Sceptics argued that there was no real difference between a right and a duty ; once it was laid down when auditors would be expected to use their right to report , it effectively became a duty . |
| 18 | It effectively initiated a programme of council-house building that has continued , albeit subject to regular modification as governments have changed the subsidy arrangements , until the present day . |
| 19 | Equally , if the board of directors could be restructured so that it effectively monitored the executive managers of the company , who would monitor the board itself ? |
| 20 | They claimed that the ruling nullified the government 's argument that it had no liability for the death of the Palestinian because it was an act of war , and that it effectively restored the government 's response to the intifada to the status of a police operation . |
| 21 | Victoria just stated a simple fact , and it effectively ended the conversation . |
| 22 | It effectively disrupted the old established patterns but prevented new and more sensible patterns developing . |
| 23 | Although the merger gave Roh control of 216 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly it provoked widespread resentment on the grounds that it effectively removed the elected opposition . |
| 24 | Departing in October 1904 , it eventually reached the waters between Japan and Korea in May 1905 ( after a tortuous journey round the Cape of Good Hope ) , only to be virtually annihilated by a Japanese fleet under Admiral Tó0gó0 Heihachiró0 in the Straits of Tsushima . |
| 25 | It eventually reached the point when one of us would simply talk to him about anything and everything until he 'd break and say , ‘ OK , you want me to talk . |
| 26 | Millend stood idle for about eight years until it eventually became the home of The Mechanical Malting Company , later The Automatic Malting Co , who remained there until 1931 . |
| 27 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 28 | As I wrote to you at the time ( since you refused even then to see me or any of your old friends and supporters ) I accepted the MS as a sacred trust and would do what I could to see that it eventually saw the light of day in the most appropriate form . |
| 29 | In the Habsburg lands Slav nationalism assumed different forms from those it displayed in the Ottoman empire , but it eventually had the same disruptive force in challenging the five-hundred-year-old supremacy of the imperial institutions . |
| 30 | It eventually saved a year 's tyre wear on the Class 317s , and meant a lot more string and sticky tape on the clapped-out DMUs . |