Example sentences of "it [vb past] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm glad to say it got a thorough sort of leathering in the Lords , and so I think it 's rather premature for him to say that by fixing a budget we have belighted the whole police service in Wiltshire , for the next er , eight or whatever number of years he said , I think that certainly is rather premature . |
| 2 | The church began in 1974 under the leadership of Roger Forster and grew to a congregation of 250 by 1980 , since which time it experienced a rapid growth to a 1985 membership of over 1000 people meeting in fifteen different congregations and by 1990 this growth reached over 1700 adult members , not including children , meeting in thirty-three different congregations . |
| 3 | It revealed a sorry state of affairs in schools which could be attributed to the cuts in educational spending — something that proved embarrassing to the government of the day . |
| 4 | It revealed a relative lack of interest in such studies and that ‘ the tendency to ignore the problems of everyday life is symptomatic of the general malaise of our times … |
| 5 | The Ethiopian Parliament was so exasperated that it passed a unanimous resolution in 1968 begging Emperor Hailé Sellassié not to visit Italy until the monument 's return . |
| 6 | Forecasting nil growth in the market this year , the company said it expected a slight upturn in the final quarter of 1993 but its total truck sales would not exceed last year 's 32,000 . |
| 7 | In between the publication of the White Paper and the passing of the new Act , the government decided that in view of the work required on the hospital services , it could not expect its community care proposals to be ready by the proposed launch date of April 1991 , so in early 1990 it announced a two-year delay in implementation until 1993 . |
| 8 | SEDGWICK , the international insurance broker , yesterday revealed the extent of the difficulties posed by tough market conditions and falling interest income last year as it announced a sharp drop in annual profits . |
| 9 | It sought a socialist majority in its own right , but most of its leaders believed that a long period of education and propaganda would be necessary before that majority could be secured . |
| 10 | Lady Diana 's engagement to Prince Charles really put Althorp on the map , and it became a full-time job for me . |
| 11 | The approach used analysis of national income data to quantify the regulation of demand , and when the statement turned from discussion of the transition to a peacetime economy it became a standard exposition of Keynesian policy prescriptions as interpreted by the academic economists in Whitehall . |
| 12 | PostScript succeeded to such an extent that it became a de-facto standard with almost every major computer manufacturer and printer vendor taking out a license . |
| 13 | A period of decline was experienced by Chiswick House through the Crimean War also the Great War of 1914 to 1918 , and after a succession of occupants it became a private asylum for the mentally ill . |
| 14 | It became a mixed comprehensive in September 1972 by amalgamating with two single-sex secondary modern schools . |
| 15 | It became a mere echo of the old governing classes ' opinions . |
| 16 | But perhaps the precise reasons for its origin and the timing of its confirmation are not so important ; of greater significance is that it became a key precedent during the ensuing century for those who wished to restrict the outflow of money from the English church to the church universal and in particular to the Roman Curia ; its appeal to the interests of patrons whose intentions were thwarted or impaired by impositions on the houses so that ‘ infinite loss and disinheritance are like to ensue to the founders of the said houses and their heirs ’ was to reappear in the later statute of Provisors . |
| 17 | Although the member States had created the Council , once established it became a separate entity with its own international executive . |
| 18 | For nearly 45 years , it was unable to function properly because it became a political battleground in the Cold War . |
| 19 | It became a Soviet priority in the 1980s to prevent a whole series of Third World states from reverting back to military alignment or alliance with the West . |
| 20 | Last year the Group cut its dividend for the first time since it became a quoted company in 1970 , but this year analysts expect the dividend to be held at last year 's figure , with Pilkington digging into reserves in order to fend off the resulting loss of confidence . |
| 21 | It became a crucial component of the renowned ‘ economic miracle . ’ |
| 22 | And yet , on this fevered night … he stared at the heavy , handsome head , looked at it until it became a strange thing to him , a feeling of stone , a sight he saw from another part of the room , this unbodied head reflected more truly in the mirror than in the live skull itself … |
| 23 | I would have turned down 2 million ( $3 million ) but when the bid nudged 3 million ( $4.5 million ) it became a good deal for us . ’ |
| 24 | But it does not appear to have been regularly employed in the Royal Chancery until the last quarter of the ninth century , from which time it became a fixed element in diplomas . ’ |
| 25 | It became a lost cause in the 66th minute when Wright found Knoetze on the left and this time the centre stepped in to the gap and raced for the line for a second try . |
| 26 | This would lead to balance of payments problems , or in the event of the establishment of EMU , the progressive impoverishment of the UK until it became a poor region of the EC . |
| 27 | So it became a twice-yearly event by necessity , rather than design . |
| 28 | Initially his management of this crisis had met with high levels of popular approval , but as the conflict dragged on it became a damaging symbol of American weakness and presidential ineptitude with polls clearly revealing the public 's dissatisfaction with Carter 's performance . |
| 29 | JCI 's gold mines produced 51.7 tons of gold in the past financial year Johnnies ' diamond interests comprise of holdings in unlisted diamond trading companies and in De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd/De Beers Centenary AG Johnnies ' non-managed investments date as far back as 1895 when it became a founding shareholder of South African Breweries , one of the 10 largest breweries in the world |
| 30 | The appeal of natural beauty may have been strong precisely because it was free of argument and doctrine ; it became a common denominator in the drive for moral and spiritual recovery . |