Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] it [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As communications were revolutionised , the labour market , especially for men with special skills , expanded until it comprised the entire industrial world . |
| 2 | The noise swelled until it had the jarring monotony of traffic . |
| 3 | Nineteenth-century legislation swept away the fictions upon which trover was based and it became the modern action for conversion , though no change was made in the substance of the law . |
| 4 | The Tchaikovsky was decently played but it lacked the passionate intensity that the score asks for , if not demands . |
| 5 | However , it soon emerged that the DES had different ideas on the management of public sector higher education and by the spring of 1981 it had become generally known that it favoured the virtual cutting of the link between the local authorities and the polytechnics and the colleges and institutes of higher education substantially involved in offering advanced further education . |
| 6 | They modernised the mill and it is believed that it became the first in Britain to make paper from wood , ie : the first Natron-cellulose pulp mill in Europe . |
| 7 | Versions of the recently introduced song God Save Great George Our King were now heard on all sides ; a little later the text was finalised and it became the national anthem . |
| 8 | The powers of the Federal government inevitably increased as it became the chief customer for the war materials poured out by industry . |
| 9 | Leonora gripped a rail with white-knuckled hands when the boat bucked as it met the wilder waters of the sound . |
| 10 | Miss Lynda La Plante , author of Prime Suspect , said she wanted another vote to be held if it emerged the initial ballot was unfair . |