Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | When the pound slipped through the fingers of the ERM last September and plunged in value against important trading currencies , it became Golden Wednesday instead . |
| 62 | A further area for the media group to check is the loss of circulation due to strikes or other problems : during the continuing difficulties that beset Fleet Street in the early eighties it became standard practice for papers affected to provide a rebate for lost circulation . |
| 63 | Others followed suit until it became standard practice in the group . |
| 64 | Gradually , all was revealed that is , people , including the authorities and the KGB , realized that the Odd-Bod Greek who had spent all those years collecting the ‘ rubbish ’ that no-one needed had in fact made a collection that was now worth a great deal of money , and it reached a point when it became awkward living in Moscow with the collection . |
| 65 | The hull was unrecognisable as such ; half out of water it became unidentifiable debris . |
| 66 | It 's a well set out machine and using it became second nature after just a couple of hours . |
| 67 | It became second nature . ’ |
| 68 | But having had some estimates for that , it became inappropriate to , it became more cost effective to replace the entire pipe with a wider diameter pipe . |
| 69 | Then it became ten performances , same fee . |
| 70 | Yes , but , but the national land conference approved the outline agrarian law erm and then it be it became formal policy in October so it is after , but , but it was the land conference which actually ratified it . |
| 71 | Anyway , it became Big Willies Are Rarely Found . |
| 72 | From then on it became big game and for fifty years the only ones to leave China were dead . |
| 73 | When it became open house , more people were touched and inspired . |
| 74 | Staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital at first tried to induce labour on January 31 but when it became clear Mrs Busuttil , now of West Drayton , London , was not in labour they discontinued their efforts . |
| 75 | It had been reported that Smith was to send a written offer to Celtic for Aitken , and although Smith would not specify the amount it became common knowledge that it was for around £300,000 . |
| 76 | But his own reasoning was different : there were questions he wanted to ask and things he wanted to consider before it became common knowledge that MacQuillan had received a threat typed on a newsroom machine . |
| 77 | News of his work with the handicapped also leaked out at the centre and it became common knowledge that he was using the OBEX swimming-pool . |
| 78 | As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals . |
| 79 | The articles of agreement stipulated that gold was the official numeraire in terms of which each currency 's exchange value was to be pegged , but it became common practice for countries to adopt a par value for their currencies expressed in terms of the dollar . |
| 80 | We got out over and we had n't got twenty yards when the flares went up and it became undiluted hell |
| 81 | It became double pneumonia . |
| 82 | It became 50 times more sensitive . |
| 83 | Upon closure of the branch line in 1957 , the B.E.M.U. went home to Derby where it became departmental test unit ‘ Gemini ’ , before eventually being acquired by the West Yorkshire Transport Museum . |
| 84 | It sold spare parts that were never stocked in larger shops . |
| 85 | It sold 100,000 copies and is still selling , 1,400 last week . ’ |
| 86 | A spokeswoman for the album said : ‘ Last year there was a compilation charity record released to coincide with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and it sold 100,000 copies . |
| 87 | Philips Electronics NV says it sold 100,000 CD-I players in 1992 , but expects the market to mushroom in the next two years , with a doubling this year , and a trebling of that in 1994 — 600,000 in other words . |
| 88 | Last year it sold 2,000 properties ; it expects this year 's total to reach 3,500 . |
| 89 | In recent weeks it sold one Ford franchise for £8m and bought another for £6m . |
| 90 | I learnt , many years later , that they paid over £30 to have a book of poems printed , and that it sold two copies . |