Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Single European Act disappointed many federalists because it tended to codify practices which had developed since 1958 , rather than to reform the EC in any radical way . |
| 2 | He selected Ellis , grandson of Red Grizzly Bear , a choice which angered Lawyer and Joseph and created more problems than it solved . |
| 3 | Like its predecessors , it attracted attention from many sources , and in the liberal or liberated social climate of the post-war years it probably created more problems than it solved . |
| 4 | Herzen 's suggestion that it continue in the West created more problems than it solved . |
| 5 | Set off with the towing Julie 's car and the tow rope just snapped in two , and it jerked both cars and it cut off the fuel . |
| 6 | But Ukraine , though it renounced nuclear weapons when it became independent in 1991 , is now hesitating to ratify START 1 and the Lisbon protocol , and to accede as a non-nuclear state to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) . |
| 7 | Naturally enough , the new , faster , mode of transport acted to reduce trade rather than to increase it and the mill suffered declining fortunes until it ceased to operate as a flour mill shortly after World War II . |
| 8 | The neon sign made little clicks as it changed colour . |
| 9 | ( It had been the practice for the climber to go to the top and give the fox a spin , but in 1984 the committee got cold feet when it found they might not be fully insured for the climber and a separate insurance would cost too much . |
| 10 | Chased by police vehicles and a helicopter it rammed three cars as it careered down the wrong side of city centre roads . |
| 11 | The man threw more sticks and it jumped again , ecstatic , diving and swimming , in and out . |
| 12 | Under co-founder Steve Hui , Fremont-based Everex Systems Inc , now trading under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection , spent millions of dollars trying to produce clones of Apple Computer Inc 's Macintosh and Sun Microsystems Inc workstations and an expensive computerised drafting table without ever getting them to market , according to United Press International ; former managers have also complained anonymously that Everex management frequently ordered more components than it needed in order to get lower prices , the wire service says . |
| 13 | I am sure that had nothing to do with her withdrawal but the way she did it raised more questions than it answered . |
| 14 | However , the sudden intervention of the princess herself in the speculation about her marriage raised more questions than it answered . |
| 15 | Perhaps the display asked more questions than it answered but it 's clear that the young stars are staking claims early . |
| 16 | The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught . |
| 17 | HAVOC : This tree wrecked three cars when it fell on London 's Victoria Embankment |
| 18 | The search spanned three continents but it uncovered a pathetic bounty . |
| 19 | In the case of powder coatings Morton combined two businesses that it had acquired separately from Philip Morris and Chesebrough-Pond 's in the 1980s , and it did not go smoothly . |
| 20 | and I 'd got a bit of an headache , well I took two tablets and it had gone before Steve come in and er I had me tea and I w I went like that and I thought God almighty ! |
| 21 | There was no roof and the rain that had fallen in the night left dark stripes where it trickled down the greasy surface of the cows ' rumps . |
| 22 | But it did n't , because its jinx first struck 16 days after it opened when fire completely gutted the building . |
| 23 | It struck two cars as it came to rest . |
| 24 | Leigh 's retainer as a consultant has supported the space , which held five exhibitions until it closed this fall . |
| 25 | The story of Fleming 's discovery was a superb one and gained delightful embellishments as it dwindled in truthfulness . |
| 26 | Wednesday 's Harkes missed two chances and it took a first-half strike from right-back Roland Nilsson to show the frontmen how to do it . |