Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It tumbled over her slim straight shoulders in deep shining waves that reached almost to her waist , and her beautiful , heart-shaped face shone like a child 's . |
| 2 | Most other scientists , however , were willing to accept quantum mechanics because it agreed perfectly with experiment . |
| 3 | There was this one for twenty five to thirty people and then there was another one for say forty or fifty and then it zoomed up to like a hundred . |
| 4 | Yeah it zoomed through did n't it ? |
| 5 | It zoomed in to introduce the IntelliServer terminal server for local area networks . |
| 6 | This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up . |
| 7 | It failed however , to make up for the ravages of a year of unremitting economic gloom , no matter how many green shoots the media and some pundits were determined to see in the crowds of shoppers that hit the stores on bank holiday Monday , 28th December . |
| 8 | The decline in the position of history in many of our schools is signified by the fact that it failed not only to be ranked as a core subject in the National Curriculum reinstated under the Education Reform Act of 1988 but was struggling hard for its survival on the list of foundation subjects as schools in the early 1990s tried to pour the National Curriculum quart into the school timetable pint pot . |
| 9 | It was a disgraceful piece of television , in as much as it failed completely to set one point of view against another so that genuine truth could emerge . |
| 10 | However , it failed financially and ceased publication . |
| 11 | Yeah , just rewire it up , just try it for er , you know , I mean it failed straight away , if it do n't fail within half an hour then your er you know what it is , save yourself getting a switch . |
| 12 | But it failed comprehensively to push through various plans for mergers between the assemblers . |
| 13 | This holds that although Desert Storm passed one narrow test of political success ( the eviction of Iraq from Kuwait ) it failed in almost every other way . |
| 14 | It failed really to come to grips with the contribution which voluntary organisations could make to a pattern of services . |
| 15 | It failed miserably and after rancorous and protracted argument with Arsenal , he was transferred to Portsmouth in the lower depths of the English Second Division . |
| 16 | The introduction of the community charge was a desperate attempt to save the skin of the Conservative party in Scotland , and it failed miserably because of the sense of social justice in the Scottish philosophy . |
| 17 | It failed miserably . |
| 18 | The Life did n't just fail , it failed spectacularly . |
| 19 | And it applied also to the Chartists — ‘ A nation can not become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations ’ . |
| 20 | Section 7(1) could be construed as applying to previous enactments , but it was argued that it applied also to subsequent enactments . |
| 21 | Prior to that date , it applied also to non-private customers . |
| 22 | This was especially true of the Fire Service , our immediate neighbours , and it applied equally to those in the adjacent Gateshead Borough Police and Northumberland Constabulary , who were always talked of as being a lesser breed of mortals . |
| 23 | It applied equally to the Galapagos Archipelago where the ancestors of Darwin 's finches had on arrival resolutely stuck to their islands and refused to travel short distances across water to interbreed and had consequently evolved into thirteen distinct species . |
| 24 | The principle of the ‘ right to work ’ was extended to ‘ the right to work for all adults irrespective of age ’ ; but it applied only where the labour of older workers was needed in addition to the full employment of younger men with families ( Roberts 1954 ; Green 1963 ) . |
| 25 | The EC-IBM 1984 agreement was also dated in that it applied only to mainframes ( specifically the IBM 370 series and successors ( which were now of less than their previous dominant significance . |
| 26 | It applied only prospectively and did not have the effect of rendering unlawful conduct which had previously been lawful . |
| 27 | However it applied only to firms with 15 or more on the payroll . |
| 28 | It applied only to mergers between companies whose combined worldwide turnover exceeded 5,000 million ECU ( approximately US$6,500 million ) and where the aggregate EC turnover of each of at least two of the companies involved exceeded 250 million ECU . |
| 29 | Lord Denning decided that if the clause was limited by its perceived object it applied only to such part of the GUS group as operated within the UK . |
| 30 | It was the first time that there had been a debate on the viability and the desirability of having an element of compulsory further education , which in theory was to enrol all adolescents , though in practice it applied mainly to those from the working class . |