Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it [be] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masters and Johnson ( 1966 ) investigated the causes of impotence in older men , and found that it is caused as much by anxiety about possible physiological change as by the ageing process itself . |
| 2 | During the late 1970s , the company found that it was becoming increasingly expensive to maintain its head office in London and therefore looked for alternative accommodation elsewhere . |
| 3 | The oldest nuclear power plant in the United States , located near Rowe , Massachusetts , has been closed down by its operators after experts from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) recommended that it be taken out of service immediately because of doubts about its safety . |
| 4 | Welsh Tourism announced that it is to spend over £7.5 million on marketing in Britain over the next three years . |
| 5 | Tarmac announced that it is closing down four plants and reducing production , which will lead to 300 job losses . |
| 6 | Ford of Europe announced that it is to make over 10,000 job cuts by the end of 1993 , about 40% of which are expected to be in the UK . |
| 7 | Even before the new Guide had been issued , CAJEC announced that it was setting up a Standard Review Group to monitor continuously the need for new ethical guidance . |
| 8 | The Department of Trade and Industry announced that it was setting up working groups to examine the scope for changing some of the most complex areas of company law . |
| 9 | Separately , Digital Equipment Corp announced that it was moving back into South Africa with a wholly-owned subsidiary , Digital Sales and Services South Africa ( Pty ) Ltd , which begins operation on July 1 . |
| 10 | Soon after its talks with Wells Fargo fell through , Security Pacific announced that it was cutting back its international operations , once a big growth area , because of bad loans in Britain and Australia that had contributed to a $230m fourth-quarter loss . |
| 11 | Nahdah , the Islamic party led by Sheikh Djaballah , announced that it was putting forward 206 candidates . |
| 12 | In February 1990 the United States announced that it was giving only $1,000,000 to the government 's economic recovery programme ( ERP , launched in April 1989 ) instead of the $6,000,000 indicated earlier and the $13,000,000 requested by Canada , the chair of the support group . |
| 13 | One local authority admitted that it was placing severely disabled children , including those under the age of 5 , 100 miles away or more in residential care . |
| 14 | The plaintiff 's case rested solely on his own evidence , and he asked that it be taken on commission in Bucharest pleading ill-health . |
| 15 | The vessel dipped above the surface of the river and Rostov judged that it was hovering roughly over the spot where the escape pod had disappeared . |
| 16 | She noticed that it was getting very hot all of a sudden . |
| 17 | Yesterday , the Hong Kong Government confirmed that it was spending about $1,000 per head for those deported . |
| 18 | Its profitable career showed that it was doing better than the trading companies launched in Charles 's reign . |
| 19 | I guessed that it was set back in the farmhouse , unless he had some sort of remote control toy . |
| 20 | I bid around £2 million for him shortly after I arrived but it was turned down . |
| 21 | ‘ Would this request from London have anything to do with the package and report I sent them , which never arrived because it was intercepted right here in this office ? ’ |
| 22 | Punctuality of departure means that there is little leeway for prolonged diagnostic through and the tendency under such conditions is to change the suspected LRU even though the BITE check if available indicated that it is functioning correctly . |
| 23 | Both Mr. Beloff and Mr. Richards , who appeared as amicus curiae , sought to extract from this passage , and from a comparable passage at p. 175B–C of that judgment , a proposition that the judicial duty to ensure that only fit and proper persons appear before them as barristers , which they perform through the machinery of the arrangements they have made , at their direction , with the Inns of Court , is somehow different in kind from the judicial duty , which existed until it was taken away by Parliament in 1990 , of determining who had the right of audience in different courts : see Abse v. Smith [ 1986 ] Q.B . |
| 24 | The government of Bosnia-Hercegovina under President Alija Izetbegovic continued as the internationally recognized government of Bosnia-Hercegovina but had lost control of most of the territory of the state as it existed when it was recognized internationally in April 1992 [ see p. 38848 ] . |
| 25 | The infinitive 's meaning-capacity in its " bare " use is therefore no different from that observed when it is preceded by to . |
| 26 | Australian Mutual received approval from the Department of Trade and Industry which it needed if it was to hold more than 15 per cent of Pearl 's shares , the level at which a shareholder is regarded as ‘ controlling ’ an insurance company . |
| 27 | As I passed the palatial ship of Gharr the Gherpotean , I saw that it was shut up tight , with no sign of activity . |
| 28 | Turning it over , he saw that it was sealed up , and broke it open . |
| 29 | Now , about to cross , she saw that it was swirling much more swiftly than when she had crossed before and fallen in . |
| 30 | Any way that was it and you st and you f forked them all round and you after it was er up you was put up to do the tramping round and round and you Every forkful you took it and saw that it was laid down and tramped it round like this , round and round and round and then the next one , till it was up . |