Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] it [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be extremely unattractive to any group of workers or management to enter a serious bid if they had been told by the Scottish Office that the bid was so contemptible that it would not even qualify for assistance if it failed because another bid from within the same management or work force had been judged as superior . |
| 2 | This was not a problem for HARPY since it represented and recognised complete utterances . |
| 3 | It concerned a contract to provide a made-to-measure set of teeth and it arose because they did not fit . |
| 4 | The work was heart-breaking because of the shortage of homes and it showed that many old people were living in distress . |
| 5 | I was within half a mile of Darrowby with the lights of the little town beginning to wink between the bare roadside branches when a car approached , went past , then I heard a squeal of brakes as it stopped and began to double back . |
| 6 | The official compilation was of moment because it ensured that certain general claims of the papacy , and the specific reasons for these claims , were not lost sight of in the later history of the papacy . |
| 7 | She was strong enough to take a certain amount of punishment if it meant that , in the end , Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away . |
| 8 | The census of 1930 revealed the the state of affairs when it showed that more than twenty-two per cent of the population were ethnic and linguistic Germans . |
| 9 | This was a smart fit of Rhyming if it had but held out ; I see you have your Poetical Concordance in your head pretty ready . |
| 10 | The bed faced the window that looked out over miles of countryside and it seemed that everything in the room was white , from the white , frilled curtains to the dainty white duvet cover and pillow case all edged with broderie anglaise . |
| 11 | The announcement will end months of acrimony after it appeared that a guarantee to base the centre in the city would be snatched away at the 11th hour . |
| 12 | Afterwards , incongruously dressed in a raincoat , she went to the bows and stared briefly down at the mesmerising onrush of sea where it split and foamed at Wavebreaker 's cutwater . |
| 13 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
| 14 | All the villagers had an increasing tendency to address Lydia , if they had to address her at all , in the third person through the medium of Betty and it seemed that Elizabeth too had caught the habit . |
| 15 | No doubt it had a great deal of appeal because it suggested that , if someone could afford air travel , he must be a bit of a swinger and must be with it . |
| 16 | In small firms doing sub-contract work for the large car assembly plants , where the level of unionisation was weak , and management hired and fired labour in line with demand as it rose and fell , the form of work organisation approximated more closely to that which Braverman describes . |
| 17 | Power sharing was understandably crucial for SDLP and it proposed that government should be carried out by an Executive with cabinet posts in proportion to party strengths in the Assembly . |
| 18 | Already the tanks ahead were in action and it seemed as though they had made contact with , and destroyed the majority of the enemy flank guard . |
| 19 | They had looked to be a one-pace crew in practice and it seemed as though they had no answer to Oxford 's attack . |
| 20 | A judge at Darlington County Court also ordered Finnegan to pay £2,400 in arrears after it emerged that no rent had been paid since July last year . |
| 21 | One person spent illicit hours at Saatchi 's designing our logo ; WTN allowed a lot of things to go through the system — printing , photocopying , artwork ; Gina got the entire staff of her office converted to the cause within weeks and it seemed that everyone else had done the same : soon members ' colleagues , friends and relatives were all helping out . |
| 22 | Alan Knight made a stunning reflex save from Phillips five minutes from time and it looked as though Boro were on the way out . |
| 23 | His Lordship reached that decision without enthusiasm because it seemed that as a matter of common sense , notice should be given in such circumstances before criminal proceedings were launched . |
| 24 | Dawn on Monday morning shone only a bleak grey light over Moscow and it looked as though the weathermen would be right in their prediction of rain by midday . |
| 25 | The powerful driving fist of the surging tide was cuffing him off balance : he was rocked from side to side as it rose and fell . |
| 26 | It was all to do with the silence , and the wine stain — turning now from red to black as it spread and seeped . |
| 27 | Control had shifted away from LEAs , but central government claimed to lack the power to secure the improvement to education that it sought and which the Conservatives promised the electorate in 1987 . |
| 28 | EURO Disney plunged 29p to £9.33p after it announced that it is closing one of its six hotels for the winter . |
| 29 | The health maintaining and promoting activities of older people have been neglected , although their importance has been recognized by WHO when it stated that ‘ … |