Example sentences of "it [vb past] [conj] it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It failed because it precipitated a managerial revolution in Courtaulds , which in turn led to the defeat of the bid and the rapid recovery of the company . |
| 2 | ‘ Barnet 's barmy army ’ it read and it seemed an apt description of an outfit that are n't Even Barry Fry , the manager whose latest sacking and return enlivened another crazy week at Underhill , admits that the club , which beat Rochdale 2-0 on Saturday , is a laughing stock . |
| 3 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 4 | It added that it rejected the Cairo " fait accompli " and would maintain its right " to safeguard this institution and its employees from loss " . |
| 5 | It whitened as it climbed the sky , casting a long path of broken moonlight across the river . |
| 6 | It declared that it understood the scope of the Letters of Request which it would not execute as including Letters of Request which require a person |
| 7 | And eventually in exasperation the bird flew a short way down the beach and picked up a small stone in its beak and then it returned and it bashed the shell repeatedly until it cracked it open and it was able to get at the contents inside . |
| 8 | SunSoft , however , thanks to a license it inherited when it bought the Systems Products Division of Interactive Systems Corp , has a time-to-market advantage whose exact terms are still unclear . |
| 9 | It worked because it offered the combination of style and leisure which more refined sensibilities found coarsened in Brighton . |
| 10 | Initially concerned mainly with royal patronage , it broadened until it involved a claim by the state to regulate every aspect of the activities of the Church , from its right as a corporation to hold property to its control over university education and charitable foundations . |
| 11 | So far , the British Electric Traction Co. had held all the capital and completely controlled the expenditure and policy of the South Metropolitan undertaking , just as it had when it worked the Corporation system . |
| 12 | But MI5 deliberately ignored them as and when it suited because it believed no prime minister or Home Secretary would interfere nor would any member of the service break ranks and tell the truth about what really went on inside MI5 . |
| 13 | It denied that it represented a danger to the public , insisting that it would have to pressed to the skin for 30 hours before the dose limit was reached . |