Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachmaninov 's Second Symphony appears to have fully emerged from the shameful obscurity it once endured to become one of the most popular and recorded of all Romantic symphonies . |
| 2 | Whilst there is still some pressure for further reform , it is generally recognised that the Lords do perform a useful function and the abolition lobby no longer enjoys the political significance it once did . |
| 3 | In many Third World countries , therefore , comprador is a term of abuse and , as a consequence has lost most of the little value it ever had for analysis . |
| 4 | Thus Spencer Stuart has not been unduly dependent on the multinational business it originally brought with it , and has many loyal British corporate clients on its books . |
| 5 | The rural idyll remains strongly evocative in most industrialized societies , but the emotional hold it formerly possessed over the minds of most Japanese has been substantially weakened . |
| 6 | In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left . |
| 7 | Although Lord Ridleys aggressive and forthright manner sometimes rubbed people up the wrong way it also gained him the respect of colleagues … |
| 8 | In the fourteenth century it even penetrated as far as Prague and Krakow . |
| 9 | The tannery had the deserted aspect it always wore ; it took very few workers to keep it productive . |
| 10 | ‘ Thanks , ’ he said dryly , his face taking on the blank expression it usually had when he was annoyed . |
| 11 | While this may have appeared to solve the monarchy 's immediate problems , in the long run it only made them worse . |
| 12 | with Argyll 's management and substantial experience in the food and drink markets , both nationally and internationally , we can restore Distillers to the pre-eminent position it once occupied at home and abroad , and that we have the opportunity to build Distillers and Argyll into Scotland 's greatest company … based in Edinburgh and directed from there . |
| 13 | ( In the 1992 election it hardly got beyond a slanging match over who had identified the young patient awaiting treatment for glue ear who was featured in a Labour election broadcast . ) |
| 14 | The slight tilt it always had now become a great lunge to one side , and as the mist moved against it the bin appeared to be moving the other way . |
| 15 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 16 | And it was all financed by the very regime it surreptitiously criticised . |
| 17 | As early as 14 September 1939 , Jonas Barrington in the Daily Express described this voice that called from Germany , though in the first instance it probably belonged to Norman Baillie-Stewart : ‘ He speaks English of the haw-haw , dammit-get-out-of-my-way-variety , and his strong suit is gentlemanly indignation . ’ |
| 18 | Anyway Rick spent what seemed like an eternity before he got the fish near the net but when it showed for the first time it soon became apparent why it had been so stubborn , the fish was massive ! |
| 19 | It could n't land the one guy it really wanted . |
| 20 | At the same time , in political terms , Costa Rica has been drawn much more closely into the US sphere of influence during the 1980s , moving away from the neutral stance it previously took , so that for a time it was one of the host countries for the US-backed Nicaraguan Contras . |
| 21 | Bella 's slander about drink baffled him , but at the same time it queerly took root , until he did indeed start boozing a good deal . |
| 22 | At the same time it formally approved the confirmation as a Vice-President of Abdol Wahed Sorabi , as announced by President Najibullah in January . |
| 23 | When Windows was in the same place it only had 25,000 kits out . |
| 24 | At the end of the American war it even reached 66 per cent . |
| 25 | The industry is comparing the biggest boom it ever had — the peak in 1989-90 — with today 's admittedly lower level of activity . |
| 26 | The other , the other weakness it possibly turned up is that , my experience is that , unless something bad there , the press do n't really want to do anything about it , if you 're just trying to sell your wares and say how good you are , and then hide a bit behind , I mean they 'll turn around anyway the circle , must be something . |
| 27 | IN the Great North Forest the other day it quickly became clear that there was a pretty significant absence . |
| 28 | He showed Horsley and Everett politely round the castle , explaining how parts dated back to the fifteenth century , and telling the preposterous , but true , story of how the building , formerly the family home of the Fenwicks , had been shifted stone by stone from the foot of the hill in the 1930s to give it the spectacular view it now enjoyed . |
| 29 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 30 | One of the first results could be a speeding-up of drilling at the huge oilfield it recently discovered west of Shetland , according to John Browne , chief executive for worldwide exploration operations . |