Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerk argued that it was not a " competent application " . |
| 2 | Apple Computer Inc says it is still on target for mid-1994 launch of its first RISC-based Macintosh after IBM Corp announced that it was now shipping the first PowerPC chips to Apple . |
| 3 | Separately yesterday , the Department of Trade and Industry announced that it was not referring the proposed acquisition by EFM Dragon Trust of Drayton Asia Trust . |
| 4 | Later metabolic studies of methotrexate revealed that it is virtually without effect in the rabbit because of a metabolic peculiarity . |
| 5 | It was in 1984 , when Kylie was still only 16 , that her next big break came and it was again Alan Hardy , the man who had cast her in The Sullivans three years before , who was involved . |
| 6 | This practice was stopped after review indicated that it was not of diagnostic value in our hands . |
| 7 | No wind blew but it was deathly still and bitterly cold . |
| 8 | Under the Angevins , it has been argued , ‘ the legal relationship between a king of France and a king of England who held territories on the continent meant that it was relatively easy for the king of France to legitimize his own actions as part of a legal process ’ . |
| 9 | Cobalt retorted that it was not an amusing thing to do , pointing a gun at people , and he could not see what Maurin found so funny . |
| 10 | The lawyer said that it was not possible to say that the young people had suffered any permanent effects as a result of their experience . |
| 11 | The judge agreed that it was unduly lenient . |
| 12 | The trial judge found that it was not foreseeable that fuel oil on water would catch fire but there was some foreseeable damage in the fouling . |
| 13 | Boy assumed that it was up to him to find out if these bars were closed , were unfashionable , were dangerous or were simply too expensive for him to visit … |
| 14 | In 1232 the Waverley annalist noted that it was now eight years since the king had confirmed the Great Charter and the Charter of the Forest and the bishops had pronounced sentence of excommunication against those who violated them . |
| 15 | Most recently , the Cadbury Committee said that it was not persuaded by those who called for such a limitation . |
| 16 | In its reply , in a memorandum to HM Treasury , the Institute said that it was not convinced that the proposals were needed . |
| 17 | ‘ The trial lasted six days and in his summing up , the judge said that it was too difficult to determine the age of the dogs and that he did not believe a breeder would know her own stock — so basically the ‘ coincidence ’ was too strong . |
| 18 | Our intelligence concluded that it was nowhere near comparison with our new Tomcat , did n't it ? ’ |
| 19 | As soon as it was light the farmer sent the child out into the fields ; and there the child remained while it was still light . |
| 20 | A glance at my watch showed that it was still only ten past five . |
| 21 | The bossy sister confirmed that it was n't possible to give an address . |
| 22 | For years the Department of Transport argued that it was not its role to promote cycling , but recently the men from the ministry seem to have had a change of heart . |
| 23 | The plaintiff argued that it was not therefore open to the Revenue to seek an alteration of the existing assessments , because any information supplied in compliance with a s 17 , FA 1975 notice had to be made the subject of a new or further assessment . |
| 24 | After Pearl Harbor Rhee felt that it was simply a question of time before Korea regained her independence and he could assume power . |
| 25 | Leith 's mutiny ebbed when she thought how ill and distraught Travis was making himself over his love , and the seed of an idea of appealing to Travis to save her job withered before it was half born . |
| 26 | Is it paternalistic approval bestowed whether it is really deserved or not , or acknowledgement of output targets that are routinely reached . |
| 27 | For the third time in twenty-four hours , the King replied that it was out of the question . |
| 28 | A correspondent knows of one witness to the February 1992 sighting in Mrs Topliff 's house , and this person stated that it was merely a large domestic cat . |
| 29 | They all require us to make sense of the realist thought that it is always possible that , unknown to us , the world differs radically from the way it appears to us , and argue from this that we can not know that the world really is the way it appears to us . |
| 30 | Lowering his head , he captured her mouth , expertly learned all there was to know about Ellie Browne 's responses — all about how putty felt when it was thoroughly warmed . |