Example sentences of "it [vb past] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adams ' report , one of a long line of studies , expert groups , advisory committees and internal and external task forces that have looked at Super-SARA , declared that the project was still viable if it got an immediate go-ahead . |
| 2 | It looked awful at first — so bad it was wonderful — but as it dried it revealed an incredible gradient of colour . ’ |
| 3 | Last week , it announced an unprecedented pact with its rival Chrysler to manufacture jointly transmissions and other drive-line components for each other 's van and car ranges . |
| 4 | The publicity generated by the government 's efforts to ban the book ensured that it became an instant bestseller . |
| 5 | A policeman ran past the poet trying to get to the crowd before it became an unruly mob . |
| 6 | It became an essential research tool in the early quest for controlled thermonuclear fusion , helped to clarify the scope of the problem of heating , containing and controlling the deuterium fuel , and set the parameters for the development of the subsequent fusion research programme . |
| 7 | In the classical period , especially under Rome , it became an accepted means of satisfying the blood lust of the plebs by the chase and slaughtering of animals in the arena . |
| 8 | Over the years it became an ecological Salient . |
| 9 | The Council was merely an umbrella organization for a large and expanding number of countryside and amenity organizations , but it became an invaluable integrator , particularly on the issue of National Parks when it set up its own Standing Committee . |
| 10 | It became an impersonal , distant , uncaring , social and welfare service . |
| 11 | It became an aloof , lonely personal fight to make the grade . |
| 12 | It became an annual event and a major source of Army income , with the public soon being asked to share in the exercise . |
| 13 | It became an occasional residence . |
| 14 | Furthermore , ever since it became an independent department it has wanted to stop being merely a postman between the Treasury and the recipients of funds , and aspires instead to set the policy framework . |
| 15 | It started out as a little ripple in the sea then it became an enormous wave it rose into the air then smashed against the breaker , the breaker broke into two . |
| 16 | It became an important building as the burial place for the kings of Sweden . |
| 17 | it became an American native wigwam . |
| 18 | The pope was wrong ; the Curia was wrong ; Anselm 's judgement was right but had no authority ; the authority quoted by Ivo was certainly spurious , but it produced an acceptable result . |
| 19 | It made an upside-down U shape . |
| 20 | It made an immense difference to military operations in Africa , stimulated research for other virus vaccines , and led to the award , in 1951 , of a Nobel prize to the medical scientist Max Theiler ( 1899–1972 ) . |
| 21 | It made an unnerving effect on his scar-crossed face . |
| 22 | The aircraft was on charter to fly passengers from Norwich to Gothenburg , Sweden , and during the morning of 12 Dec 73 it made an uneventful positioning flight from Oslo , Norway , to Norwich where it landed at 1228 hours . |
| 23 | However , serious differences continued to present obstacles to an agreement : ( i ) the Soviet Union insisted that not all combat aircraft be included in the treaty , although it made an important concession on this point in September ( see p. 36909 ) ; ( ii ) of the five categories of weapons to be included in a treaty-aircraft , helicopters , tanks , armoured vehicles and artillery ( with troops being the sixth element in an agreement ) -consensus on the definition of the weapons system and the items in that category to be included was only reached on artillery ( see below ) ; ( iii ) the Warsaw Pact insisted on an undertaking by NATO to conduct separate negotiations on the reduction of naval forces ( see Malta summit disagreement on naval forces p. 37111 ) ; and ( iv ) the Warsaw Pact demanded that no modernization of short-range missiles by NATO take place ( see also p. 37227 ) . |
| 24 | It made an interesting little noise , so he did it again . |
| 25 | The NUR had an unfortunate experience , apparently , a few years back when it made an unwise sponsorship . |
| 26 | In practice it involved an enormous amount of administration also . |
| 27 | And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one . |
| 28 | This not only involved the SCCs in vocational guidance and after-care in a formal sense prior to the creation of juvenile labour exchanges , but also it provided an influential role for the ASEA , certainly for its practice . |
| 29 | Thus it provided an underpinning for the social democratic viewpoint in political life . |
| 30 | For both middle and working classes , where the sexes tended to undertake their leisure activities in strict segregation , it provided an outward and visible sign of the family 's cohesiveness . |