Example sentences of "it [vb past] [to-vb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | It decided to do this through the dock company , a wholly owned subsidiary which was incorporated on 24 March 1982 . |
| 2 | One glance was all it took to realise this was one hard nut to crack — his features still completely impassive . |
| 3 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
| 4 | The circular acknowledged that the main burden of providing such care would fall on the local authorities and it aimed to ease this by extending provision for the transfer of NHS financial resources to those local authorities or voluntary bodies that offered to develop community care projects specifically for long-stay hospital patients . |
| 5 | Under a 1937 agreement , PAA was allowed to operate two flights a week to the UK : it continued to do this during the war years , unmatched by BOAC . |
| 6 | It tended to produce this monotonous field pattern , and it also produced ‘ a continuous sheet of greensward ’ , as William Marshall observed of Leicestershire in 1790 , instead of the multi-coloured patchwork of the old arable strips . |
| 7 | The LDDC , in its 1987 Corporate Plan ( LDDC , 1987 ) , argued that , although it was not itself a housing authority , it intended to increase this figure by rehabilitating older public-sector estates through a programme of co-operation with local authorities . |