Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] [vb past] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is a little thin now , and it only just reached the back of the hall . |
| 2 | At first , however , it focused upon the need to settle inter-union disputes and it only gradually acquired the right to call for joint industrial action from Congress . |
| 3 | Table — his Project of a Commonwealth ( 1915 ) created dissension in the ranks-but they soon prevailed , and the Round Table brought into currency a new term , the Commonwealth of Nations , which proved popular because it so gracefully combined the idea of imperial unity with that of national autonomy . |
| 4 | in Barbados and er some young chaps had saw me lying on the beach and er they stole my bag and they stuck a gun in my face and freeze lady , you do n't do any thing , you just let them take what they want and its a horrible feeling when your there , we were there for three weeks and it just totally spoiled the holiday but the ramifications of it do n't just stop once you got on the plane home , it was very frightening |
| 5 | With its efficient sights , this became so popular that it soon almost ousted the longbow ; in fact this was the last meeting at which the silver arrow was won by an archer using a longbow . |
| 6 | It also consciously evolved a policy of fragmentation where possible , supporting distinct ethnic or religious communities to challenge the Arab environment in which they existed , for example with the Kurds in Iraq and the Maronites in Lebanon . |
| 7 | The dual-route model of reading is thus able not only to explain an existing set of data within a simple theoretical model , it also successfully pinpointed the existence of an entirely new type of acquired dyslexia . |
| 8 | It also forcibly raised the question of the need for political change before substantial propaganda could be spread among the peasantry — a question shelved since the early 1860s amid general hostility to constitutional compromise . |
| 9 | It also strongly influenced the European and American theorists of the following century . |
| 10 | It also fundamentally changed the nature of the Shah 's relations with his government and people . |
| 11 | As we shall see later , it also eventually created a crisis for nuclear power . |
| 12 | Since sexuality increased the possibilities of genetic variation , it also greatly accelerated the rate at which evolution could proceed as organisms encountered new environments . |
| 13 | It also yesterday announced the acquisition of the Seal Sanctuary , in Cornwall , for £1.8 million . |
| 14 | When government ministers talked during the mid-1980s about their justification for nuclear power , it nearly always included a catalogue of fearful threats which started with OPEC and ended with Scargill . |
| 15 | It probably also served the function of reuniting the party against a common threat . |
| 16 | As a party , it really only exercised a modicum of power in relation to the Stormont administration . |
| 17 | It even rather spoiled the symmetry of the page . |
| 18 | The context of these submissions is the undertaking given by British Steel at the time of privatisation that it would consider commercial offers for the steel mill facilities if it no longer had a use for them . |
| 19 | Such an uninspiring vista to bring so much heartache , and she found now that the sight of it no longer had the power to hurt her . |
| 20 | On June 3 , 1990 , the national committee of the Social Democratic Party voted to suspend the party 's constitution because it no longer had the membership or popular support to continue as a democratic national party . |
| 21 | The religious habit had lost its symbolic value ; it no longer conveyed the meaning it was intended to convey . |
| 22 | Knightly warfare , if it no longer enjoyed the supremacy of past centuries , was far from dead . |
| 23 | By then the Faulkner administration had been out of existence for some months and hostility to it no longer rallied the public . |
| 24 | With its clear identity and superior taste , it very quickly became the market leader . |
| 25 | Some of these are explored in the pages to come : computers which siphon even more power from the people who operate them ; a dynamic but degraded city ; a hippie alternative to capitalism which failed because it never really analysed the problem . |
| 26 | What was it that so introverted a man as Ludwig Wittgenstein thought he believed in , when he volunteered to fight for the Emperor ? |