Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] it [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the rural high oil category , where incidence increased significantly in 1979–83 ( table II ) , the peak moved during that period to age 2 as in urban areas , remaining there in 1984–8 ; in other rural areas it continued to be at age 3 . |
| 2 | For most consensus theorists , the answer lies in a theory of social structure made famous by Durkheim in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and developed to such an extent by Talcott Parsons and his followers in the USA between the 1930s and 1950s that during these years it came to be seen as the sociological theory . |
| 3 | Though in itself fairly insensitive under normal conditions it had to be set off by the early , very sensitive , mercury-fulminate detonator which was fired by safety fuze . |
| 4 | The Thatcher government continued this process , much more zealously , developing a formula which deliberately penalized those authorities it deemed to be over-spenders . |
| 5 | The NAO report , however , found that some areas had been neglected , notably air , as the inspectorate concentrated its resources on those areas it considered to be priorities such as nuclear sites . |
| 6 | Unlike some of the more academically qualified tutors , Sophie Green believed that if the WEA was to succeed among manual workers it had to be perceived as a social movement striving for a democratic state through its educational purpose . |
| 7 | Sometimes it appeared that the police and the media were christening subsequent sex beasts as variants of The Fox , while , much more rarely , on other occasions it seemed to be the offender who took up the mantle . |