Example sentences of "it [vb past] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January 1989 the government said it expected a further 361,000 sales over the next three years . |
| 2 | Generally in relation to the mortgage of movables , it recommended a simpler scheme , together ‘ with power to the lender to sell off the security in the event of the borrower failing to repay , after giving him due notice ’ . |
| 3 | It recommended a stronger role for local authorities coordinating a range of services provided by the private and voluntary sectors as well as by the local authorities themselves . |
| 4 | It embodied a further complication because the millions of souls to whom it was dedicated included political and military leaders convicted of war crimes and executed by the Allies . |
| 5 | The subsequent history of the town is confused ; by 1564 its trade was said to be in decline , and it sustained a further blow when William 's son retired to the fine house he had built at Shaw on the outskirts of the borough , leaving his men to sing ruefully : |
| 6 | In his excitement Yanto soaked himself in his effort to grab the fish before it found a deeper refuge . |
| 7 | It proposed a simpler statute abandoning many aspects of the previous draft , and it would be optional . |
| 8 | Party meetings continued to be held at the Carlton and it played a greater part in holding the party together when the Liberal Unionists joined . |
| 9 | When the recipe called for a sprig of ‘ bruised thyme ’ it added a further twenty minutes while he and Kate deliberated as to whether bruised was the same as battered with a knife handle , or meant merely rubbed between the forefinger and thumb . |
| 10 | None thought it deserved a higher chart placing . |
| 11 | She had joined the course at her parents ' insistence and while it was n't her idea of fun at the time it seemed a better alternative than being behind a typewriter . |
| 12 | It seemed a better idea than sitting in the village street for three hours . |
| 13 | It seemed a better idea this time . |
| 14 | It seemed a longer walk than usual from the bedroom , along the passage , down the stairs and into the living room . |
| 15 | The company recognised that it faced a greater problem in attracting the Kent-based ( Orpington ) staff to Stevenage than it had in persuading the north London staff to move — distance alone was an important consideration . |
| 16 | It was a mark of the respect Jimmy gained here that , when we ran an article about him in the Spring of 1977 in our Palace Programme , it evoked a larger response from our fans than any other in that series . |
| 17 | Any change would be open to the charge that it constituted a further ‘ infantilization ’ of the examination system . |
| 18 | In so doing it reversed an earlier commitment , made in 1988 in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster [ see pp. 36161 ; 34831 ] , to begin the shut-down of the country 's 12 nuclear reactors in 1995 . |
| 19 | Last night , it shouldered a graver problem . |
| 20 | The Agenais and other territories were not restored immediately ; it needed a further war in 1326 and an agreement , concluded in March 1327 , to secure the restoration of those lands . |
| 21 | Though it packed a stronger punch in the north-eastern states , it wreaked greater havoc in the south . |
| 22 | Close by reared the immense domed bulk of the Palais de Justice , a complex so large it covered a greater area than St Peter 's in Rome . |
| 23 | It required a calmer appraisal of her predicament . |
| 24 | In much work that was to develop within the compass of physical geography , the chronology assumed a greater significance , it required a greater knowledge of existing and recently developed dating techniques , and it thus involved close liaison with other disciplines particularly geology , biology and archaeology amongst the broadening spectrum of the earth and environmental sciences . |
| 25 | It required a further hatti şerif a year later which recognised Miloš as hereditary Prince of Serbia , established a commission to settle the boundaries , and regularised the payment of the annual Serbian tribute to the Sultan . |
| 26 | It enabled a larger number of European countries to be included at the outset . |
| 27 | While there was , at least for Monnet and Schuman , an altruistic motive behind the scheme , it is clear that France found the idea attractive because it offered a better way than the International Ruhr Authority of binding the new West Germany to external control while it was still relatively weak . |
| 28 | Thus , as prices rose , the effective rate of duty fell : the amount yielded was the same , but it represented a smaller proportion of the value of the goods . |
| 29 | It took a fuller self-knowledge to do something effective about them . |
| 30 | It took a further eight years before classes got under way , and then only in medicine , and it was not till well into the 1850s that it became really established . |