Example sentences of "[noun] it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it was doubtless a noble religion it still had a greater contribution to make to humanity . |
| 2 | Though it was a thriving concern for several centuries it eventually fell into decline and finally out of existence with the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537 . |
| 3 | ‘ When I first saw the head in the font it just looked familiar — I could n't sort out why . |
| 4 | Well my Lord , all we know is that erm when the report was served on the defendant it then came through court they were going to have to call Mr and then last week it was suggested er that er not only did they not agree but that they were going to try to prevent it being admitted in evidence . |
| 5 | It was an intelligent , thought-provoking script , but in Whitaker 's eyes it just did not work . |
| 6 | For all the good it ever did for your sons . |
| 7 | But to her mind it still did not excuse his neglect of everything else . |
| 8 | With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them . |
| 9 | Under both governances it somehow managed , in friendly or hostile fashion , to draw supplies of meat , poultry and other foodstuffs from the fertile riverside plain known as the Merse ( or Marsh ) , which with its moderate rainfall was from early times one of the most productive agricultural regions in the country . |
| 10 | On Friday it only niggled , as if the chief had departed from a conquered place , and merely left a small garrison behind , or as if he had evacuated the Corsica , and a few straggling pains only remained . |
| 11 | The great sides always capitalise on moments of good fortune and when Marty Roebuck made a hash of a simple penalty four minutes from the break it somehow ended up as a try . |
| 12 | This had been substantially rewritten since publication of the first draft in February [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , some of the revisions reflecting conservative criticism of the party leadership , but as delivered by Gorbachev it still came across as a spirited defence of his perestroika reform policies . |
| 13 | Although a picture of NCC confusion emerged from this study it still held out the hope , if only by implication , that more rigorous thinking would achieve better results . |
| 14 | In practice it probably did not make a great deal of difference to either party whether or not leases existed , unless or until a serious dispute between them arose . |
| 15 | In practice it soon withdrew . |
| 16 | The psychologists attempted to polarise various issues such as massed versus spaced learning , whole versus part learning and transfer of training which had some face validity in appearing to identify general principles , but in practice it always seemed that the generalities vanished into the enormous variety of specific issues . |
| 17 | It is notable , however , that although titled nobles were very prominent in the highest ranks in the college it still had to make extensive use of commoners , since even in the 1750s it was impossible to find enough dvoryane ( members of the privileged landowning class ) with an adequate knowledge of foreign languages . |
| 18 | So if Mains ' lean face did begin to take on a grey and grim hue it probably began in 1972 when the All Black selectors began shuffling around their fullbacks , with Mains conspicuously absent . |
| 19 | This change may reflect a disillusionment with the cost-benefit approach and the realisation that while this attitude might be helpful in manufacturing industry it certainly did not work in the service industry to which most of the Highlands were exposed . |
| 20 | The train resembled a site from the late 50s–early 60s when numerous tours were staged on branch lines in this manner and with 75069 in a slightly weather worn condition it certainly looked authentic and fitted the part well . |
| 21 | The industry is comparing the biggest boom it ever had — the peak in 1989-90 — with today 's admittedly lower level of activity . |
| 22 | Although he put the poem to one side it still continued to worry him , and in October he explained to Mary Hutchinson that the contemporary situation was such that only good work was appropriate ; bad writing , after all , would seem even more trivial or superfluous . |
| 23 | When polluted rain was substituted by clean rain , the ‘ bleeding ’ of sulphate from the soil reduced 50 per cent but after 36 months it still continued at up to seven times the rate of input . |
| 24 | Easy-to-run homes and a host of electrical aids mean that heavy housework does not take the toll it once did . |
| 25 | I knew the rule well enough , but in that split second it never entered my head . |
| 26 | I was very green and , to be honest , when Ricky McFarlane quit St Mirren it never occurred to me that I had a chance of getting the job . |
| 27 | In February it publicly reprimanded the insurer for failing to be tough enough with its agents . |
| 28 | In Arthur Christiansen it too had an inspirational editor and expert newspaper technician . |
| 29 | One of the first results could be a speeding-up of drilling at the huge oilfield it recently discovered west of Shetland , according to John Browne , chief executive for worldwide exploration operations . |
| 30 | In the DOE it also tended to overburden top management , producing large amounts of detailed information about costs whilst ignoring both wider policy judgements ( which perhaps offer greater scope for savings ) and day-to-day political issues ( which usually preoccupy top civil servants and ministers ) . |