Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the summer of 1992 , when the last count was made , it owned 19,056 works . |
| 2 | Furthermore , it gave valuable information about the Permian sequence ; in particular it penetrated 370 ft of Upper Permian salt , and the 1800 ft of lavas and tuffs believed to be Lower Permian . |
| 3 | There were n't , we did it singly and it made more people did n't it ? |
| 4 | The particular benefits of this approach for this study were that it provided quantitative data on important treatment/intervention issues in a population where group-comparison studies alone would be inappropriate , because of the individual nature of each person 's challenging behaviour and the small number of potential subjects . |
| 5 | ‘ I had always thought that its grip on me was purely personal , ’ wrote Amanda , ‘ — I loved it simply because it was my home — but then I found that it caught other people in its web too . ’ |
| 6 | It weighed 10 cwt and stood 5 ft 7 in high on its plinth . |
| 7 | And it cost sixty pence in this country to buy , buy a small bar of chocolate . |
| 8 | The Commission imposed a four-year supervision order in August 1990 against the West German company Advanced Nuclear Fuels GmbH for serious violations of safety regulations when it transported 130 kg of enriched uranium through Luxembourg in what purported to be empty containers . |
| 9 | It consumed 25 mpg around town , 46 mpg at 56 mph and 32 mpg at 75 mph . |
| 10 | A year later further serious violence occurred during the weekend of 10–12 April 1981 in the Brixton area of south London ; this resulted in many injuries and widespread damage , and it attracted enormous media attention . |
| 11 | Certainly it provoked wide media interest which continues today , and it remains a highly emotive issue . |
| 12 | It affected four people — three from one family — and was caused by Salmonella typhimurium in eggs purchased from a stall at Bedworth Market . |
| 13 | Although PRO wo n't confirm that it paid some $600,000 for the suite ( UX No 406 ) , the decision to plump for 88open 's testing technology was thought to be purely financial : ‘ we could n't afford to spend that kind of money developing our own alternative , so we bought in . ’ |
| 14 | On the one hand , the local situation and knowledge about it encouraged some people to retire at the same time as they were made redundant . |
| 15 | For many years university academic staff have enjoyed the unique position of having tenure for their working lives , the argument in support of this being that it protected academic staff from political pressure and avoided the possibility of someone being dismissed for expressing unpopular or unconventional views . |
| 16 | First , it enabled clueless people to quote ‘ soul ’ , then it allowed intelligent people to get away with expressing fake emotions . |
| 17 | It killed 8,000 people , wrecked hundreds of ships , destroyed Eddystone lighthouse , 400 windmills and 800 houses . |
| 18 | It killed five people in England last year . |
| 19 | It awarded 1,079 sq km of territory in southern Antarctic regions to Chile , and 1,083 sq km to Argentina . |
| 20 | It achieved overseas sales exceeding £500,000 in April . |
| 21 | The uprating deals with the expenditure of the largest Government Department — it spent some £60 billion this year . |
| 22 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 23 | Erm it touched it touched twenty grand last year . |
| 24 | On March 11th it named 35 people who , it said , had probably been murdered by ‘ government forces ’ since November 1988 . |
| 25 | In 1986 it employed 670 people and shipped around US $500 million of systems . |
| 26 | This was always an unofficial research body , but it employed full-time staff , was housed at Central Office , and used the full machinery of party publicity to make itself known . |
| 27 | It required fewer people who could pass the port in the right way , and more people who would have the drive , energy , initiative and sheer guts actually to make money for the shareholders and themselves in a recessionary environment . |
| 28 | One of the Baltimores was hit by flak and as it spun out of position in the combing box it hit another aircraft , both then spun into the sea . |
| 29 | It lost all fruit along the way and by the time it received an export licence it was beyond drinking . |
| 30 | British Aerospace was amongst the features today when it lost 12 pence to four hundred and fif , five hundred and forty one pence on rumours that the Saudis had cancelled some Tornado options . |