Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is pensioners in particular who paid for British Telecom when it was owned by the State their taxes ensured that the telephone system in the U K , it became amongst the best in the world . |
| 2 | He said the motorcycle was new , and left near the crowded Dadar railway station in central Bombay where it was reported to police by a doctor . |
| 3 | The DTI had already announced in early April that it was appointing consultants to consider the practicability of privatising AEA . |
| 4 | Graham Connah 's excavations in 1964 , for the Department of Antiquities , revealed that tin-bronze was available in 13th-century Benin where it was cast into ingots in open moulds before being smithed into bracelets . |
| 5 | Potatoes were planted on Good Friday as it was believed that this was one day on which the Devil had no power to poison and ruin the soil . |
| 6 | The government let it be known in late May that it was planning to close the three Saharan detention camps of Reggane , Ain Salah and Ain M'guel , releasing many of those detained for their radical Islamic sympathies , and moving the others further north . |
| 7 | Early in the new century , for example , the Hooligan 's name was snapped up as far away as Tsarist Russia where it was used to describe crimes as diverse as murder , arson and rape , as well as a wide scatter of mischief such as obscenity , window-breaking and stone-throwing , defacing buildings , singing indecent songs , blocking public thoroughfares , brawling and stealing carriage wheels . |
| 8 | Jack was offered voluntary redundancy in late August and it was confirmed that there was suitable accommodation at the Kings Lodge base . |
| 9 | Labour frontbencher Jack Straw and Tory Jim Lester were in an armour-plated Land-Rover when it was hit by a boulder . |
| 10 | Indeed , it has become so well used in relational DBMS that it is described in a separate chapter of this text ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 11 | It was one of the newish two-litre Metrocabs and it was painted red . |