Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helped make the government conscious of some of the preoccupations of nobility and townsmen , but when its proceedings were interrupted by the Turkish War , Catherine allowed the experiment to lapse . |
| 2 | It helped make the artist 's name and was bought in 1912 by the poet Hugo von Hoffmannsthal with the money he made from writing the libretto to Richard Strauss 's Der Rosenkavalier . |
| 3 | Even professional men , it seems , would dabble in a bit of commerce if it helped pay the bills . |
| 4 | Passing over more innovative authors such as Lawrence Durrell or William Golding , it helped establish a sort of myth of the 1950s , to the effect that the complexities and indulgences of modernism had been sensibly rejected in favour of a thoroughgoing return to traditional , realist style , and to the true subject of the novel , class and social relations . |
| 5 | This was no more than a gesture but it helped sustain the morale of the Belgians . |
| 6 | And , and I 'm against any Trust status which they tend to , to go because I believe that the beginning of our campaign that because was talking last year about Trust status it did alienate a lot of people against and said , why should we bother fighting for a hospital what would go Trust anyway . |
| 7 | Although the poster exhibition failed to capture the imagination of the local press , it did attract a large number of visitors and over 200 copies of the historical booklet that accompanied the exhibition were sold . |
| 8 | Oliver had reassured her that Sir Thomas could not possibly have committed suicide through anguish at her rejection and she was now prepared to enjoy the rest of the week immensely , even if it did involve a murder investigation . |
| 9 | But it did involve the acceptance of a spiritual authority beyond his control , to which his ancestor Arnoul I could never have bowed . |
| 10 | But it did blunt the tool quite easily and sharpening was needed more often that I had thought likely , though this walnut was extremely hard . |
| 11 | It was an attempt at prohibition that was never wholly successful but it did set an example . |
| 12 | Although the strike was called off , amid bitter controversy , it did benefit the Labour Party . |
| 13 | Whatever we think about child baptism , it did reflect a serious interest in the role of the family in bringing up children . |
| 14 | They had the moral flexibility to meet shifting organizational demands and still enjoy the sleep of the just — their ability to relativize other moral imperatives whilst constantly prioritizing the pursuit of organizational goals did not make them necessarily immoral , but it did facilitate a moral flexibility others denied themselves . |
| 15 | But it did explain a lot , especially how Stubbly had managed to keep the Mimosa trouble-free over the years . |
| 16 | We contested the decision vigorously , encouraged by strong support from outside the institution , but it did bring a significant and positive stage to an abrupt conclusion , leaving us to reflect on what we had learned , and were still learning , that might be relevant to widely shared concerns . |
| 17 | Whilst the second approach provides a more rigorous and adaptable method of providing the assemblies , it did necessitate the building of special-purpose assembly and iterative routines into the geometric modeller of a CAD system . |
| 18 | But it did offer a rather different view of international relations , based on the two related themes of transnationalism and interdependence . |
| 19 | Even the original Tele guitar was designed to have some bass-playing ability , and as a consequence was not wired as it is today , although it did possess the customary three-way selector switch . |
| 20 | Nonconformity did not will migration into the towns nor the migration out again to the suburbs but it did meet the challenges presented by these mammoth social changes . |
| 21 | I had to rinse quite often to get rid of debris , but it did give a close shave . |
| 22 | The Crofting Reform ( Scotland ) Act of 1976 did not go quite as far as this , but it did give the crofters the incontestable right to purchase their house and garden , and the optional ( though not incontestable ) right to purchase their land for 15 times the annual rent . |
| 23 | It did n't shed much light , but it did give the darkness a shape … |
| 24 | It did admit a possible link with cases of leukemia and cancer of the bones and agreed war pensions should go to those cases . |
| 25 | So you 'd say that as a b er as a result of that it did it did er so it did When you say it served its purpose , it did improve the image ? |
| 26 | It did improve the image and it it improved people 's confidence I think in themselves and in the area . |
| 27 | ‘ What we brought into the head office was financial expertise as I 'd recognise it and it did deliver a huge benefit including giving professionally-based leadership at the centre for all the financial staff already working out there in the field . |
| 28 | Although in terms of later social science methodologies such an approach might seem naive , it did leave an important legacy for social research and survey data collection , namely sampling . |
| 29 | However , it did retain the S E Saunders patented ‘ corrugated ’ hull method of construction , as used on the Severn , in which longitudinal corrugations replaced riveted stringers . |
| 30 | It did exclude the unplanned , ( and sometimes unintended ! ) learning and reinforcement that takes place ‘ on-the-job ’ . |