Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grammar did not offer total coverage of the language ( it successfully parsed 65% of the corpus it was tested on ) but was intended as a supplement to the results from the Markov analysis of the stenotography . |
| 2 | There were questions about the durability of the logotype over passing years — and questions , too , over whether it properly expressed BT 's international ambitions . |
| 3 | This law was widely criticised as racist because it effectively barred entry from the so-called new Commonwealth while allowing continued emigration from the predominantly white old Commonwealth countries . |
| 4 | General Aoun 's ‘ war of liberation ’ against Syria served the Christian cause because it effectively postponed discussion of the reforms which Muslims believe are essential if their numbers are to be fairly represented in a future government . |
| 5 | In a few cases , such as steel , it effectively coordinated expansion plans . |
| 6 | For the most part , it effectively circumvented Rome , drawing its primary impetus and orientation from Egypt , Syria and the Mediterranean world . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the peace was an Athenian triumph because it effectively acknowledged Athens ' empire by sea . |
| 8 | It was soon realised that there was a gang operating on an international scale and as the investigation grew it eventually involved Sussex police No 6 Regional Crime Squad and customs authorities in the Mediterranean area . |
| 9 | It eventually capitulated days before the Panel was due to exercise its right to apply to the courts for a forced restatement of the accounts . |
| 10 | It eventually showed fishermen preparing and setting out on a peaceful evening for a night 's work ; while they are at sea , a storm blows up . |
| 11 | His department said that it only kept records of strikes lasting more than three days and involving more than 100 people . |
| 12 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 13 | Its latest figures show that on £1.2bn of business it only made £18m profit . |
| 14 | It only made sense to put tea back a bit . |
| 15 | But it only made things worse . |
| 16 | She found it only made things worse if she struggled , bringing her even more intimately against his muscular shape . |
| 17 | Bible I saw that it only got 68% . |
| 18 | But it only reminded Shelley of Miguelito , and she turned away , her anger rising again . |
| 19 | The significance of his gearless pedestal has not yet been fully realised but it so influenced engineer 's thinking that solar powered lights are feasible even in the higher ranges . |
| 20 | It so happened Mitchell 's was very clean , and their quality of a high standard . |
| 21 | A region is mediated in our everyday life in the form of various symbols , which are the same for all individuals in the one region , though the meanings associated with them will always be construed personally on the basis of the individual 's life situation and biography … though the regions of a society obtain their ultimate personal meanings in the practices of everyday life , these meanings can not be totally reduced to experiences that constitute everyday life , since a region bears with it institutionally mediated practices and relations , the most significant being the history of the region as a part of the spatial structure of the society in question . |
| 22 | It obviously pleased Mr Cory when I took part in an inter-school athletics meeting , winning several events including the 100 yards and the 220 . |
| 23 | It obviously upset Charman and after the sacking he realised the strain it had put on his friendship with Gedge . |
| 24 | On the morning of 8 May , Ciparis had been waiting as usual for his breakfast to be brought to him , when it suddenly grew dark , and immediately afterwards , hot air laden with ashes began to come through the grating over the door . |
| 25 | Three days had passed before it suddenly struck Lisa that she had so far been spared her most dreaded aggravation — the aggravation of Alexander Vass constantly breathing down her neck . |
| 26 | Suspicion was apparent in every doubt-ridden defile of his expression , perhaps , it suddenly struck Harry , too apparent , as if blazoned there to conceal something else . |
| 27 | It suddenly struck Viola , in the midst of her rage , that she had n't had a good row for months . |
| 28 | It suddenly raised hopes that all was not lost . |
| 29 | Hurricane Iniki headed 100 miles north for the main Hawaiian resort of Oahu — where it killed a 15-year-old boy — before it suddenly switched course for Kauai . |
| 30 | It said that during the quarter it greatly improved product delivery time to its resellers , and recorded the highest volume quarter in its history . |