Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a consequence of its scope , its vague wording , and its proposed method of enforcement , which was mainly civil , it applied to very little business conduct and was , as discussed earlier , more suitable for the prosecution of labour and small businessmen than large manufacturers . |
| 2 | According to this theory the earlier generational pairing was abandoned because it led to so much inbreeding that people who practised the gens system were genetically more fit for natural selection and therefore survived better . |
| 3 | ‘ They detonated an explosive device next to one , and it disintegrated into so many pieces they could n't find them all . |
| 4 | From where Yanto stood it looked like just another heap of mud . |
| 5 | His own father , Charles the Cheesemonger , was neither a cardmaker nor a pauper , and we can hardly suppose that any loss of common rights through enclosures had had any direct impact upon his family as it had upon so many others . |