Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I tell you in all candour that the option no longer exists , and that , insofar as it ever did exist , it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy , followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step . ’ ?
2 It was a grandiose theme so radical and ridiculous that it naturally appealed to many intelligence officers living in their secret world of fantasies who saw it as a convenient excuse for all their previous problems and disasters .
3 Mr and Mrs are as I understand it entirely satisfied with that school .
4 More realistically , though , he conceded that as beautiful as it was as screen art it nevertheless belonged to that category of films ‘ which would not enrich their producers ’ .
5 I still think some of the things on it were OK , but it generally fell between any number of stools . ’
6 It thereupon wrote to all institutions offering advanced work asking them to provide detailed information about student numbers and other aspects of planning forward to 1984–5 .
7 It also led to some boxing lessons somewhere in Boston 's South End .
8 It also led to some staff cuts and by the spring of 1989 the leaders of the fusion programmes were anticipating that after five years of no increases to match inflation , Congress would make a twenty million dollar cut in the fusion budget .
9 The number who cited defence as ‘ extremely important ’ for their voting decision rose from 42 per cent at the start to only 49 per cent in the third week and then it also stabilized at that level .
10 However , it also seemed at this stage that science depended on uniformity and invariance .
11 It later collided with another car in Quarry High Street.A passenger in the second car , twenty two year old Ginette Wheatley , who 's seven months pregnant , was treated in hospital for minor injuries .
12 What Hollywood had been doing was living off its wits and trying to survive as best it could but it now responded to this challenge not necessarily by taking Dr Dale 's ‘ entire world ’ as its range but at least by ensuring that there were values in its films .
13 It proudly appeared on many programmes .
14 One of the problems with the Official Report is that heavy irony usually fails to come off , and it certainly did on that occasion .
15 Although there was a resistance movement to the German occupation , it never developed on any scale and did not have the support of the mass of the people who were coddled by the occupying regime .
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