Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even th your chief supporter , the T N A , on September the nineteenth agreed that it was far better , it was far better to use the untapped human resource than to load the ca th the cost on to the community charge payer . |
| 2 | That occurred although it took up a large slice of their already-depleted income , and they also ran the risk of getting lung cancer and other smoking related diseases , and placed the health of their children in jeopardy . |
| 3 | The Alliance for Justice , a liberal group which was in the forefront of the campaign to prevent the 1987 confirmation of Justice Robert Bork , on July 30 announced that it would oppose the confirmation . |
| 4 | However , some argued that it would be difficult to include the voluntary and direct grant colleges in such a body and that national planning would thereby be more complex . |
| 5 | Some argued that it was a druidical sacrificial place of worship ; others that it was a gigantic cosmic clock . |
| 6 | Japan on Jan. 22 announced that it had approved the export of 27 tonnes of surgical anaesthetics . |
| 7 | Turning down a request to support a US$22,000,000 telecommunications project , the Norwegian government on Aug. 22 announced that it would refuse Malawian requests for economic development aid as a result of continuing allegations of human rights abuses [ for Norwegian attitude towards Namibia see p. 39038 ] . |
| 8 | Palestine was still an all-Arab question and few believed that it would be recovered save through the united endeavours of the Arab states . |
| 9 | Long thought to be a mystery , Coade stone is now known to be a ceramic body , and the British Museum research laboratory 's analysis in 1985 showed that it was a form of stoneware so resistant to the weather that it is as precise today as when it was originally made . |
| 10 | Because of this background , I expected a book called Feminism for Beginners to explain why all this happened when it did . |
| 11 | Although the animal was slow to mature ( some claimed that it would keep growing until it was six years old ) the new society was able to show that properly managed steers could reach market weights before they were two years old . |
| 12 | On July 16 the Supreme Court ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to explain the nature of a concrete platform that had been built on the disputed site , and on July 22 declared that it would refuse to adjudicate on the issue until all construction activities had ceased . |
| 13 | His observational sample of prisoner interviews , although small , had found the PACE codes of practice were followed to the letter and he argued this showed that it required the sanction of the law to effect changes in interview and interrogation techniques . |
| 14 | This declined until it was only 2,146 last year . |
| 15 | This implied that it was possible to construct a rational theory based on these objective laws . |
| 16 | From its first meeting it was also identified with the anti-slavery movement and this meant that it did not establish itself in America , where many religious leaders were wary of too close an identification with such a divisive issue . |
| 17 | This meant that it could not be used if it was the result of a ‘ fear of prejudice or hope of advantage , exercised or held out by a person in authority ’ or if it was occasioned by ‘ oppression ’ . |
| 18 | In 1795 , after a severe winter and the failure of many crops , the price of provisions soared to an unprecedented height ; the price of wheat in London was 108 shillings a quarter : and this meant that it was impossible to buy bread , even if it were obtainable . |
| 19 | This meant that it could not be revoked , a view with which , for instance , West German courts have agreed . |
| 20 | This meant that it was possible to make up a test focused at the middle of the target attainment range with a minimum of trialling . |
| 21 | This meant that it was impossible sufficiently to cheapen the production of that most vital product of all — the labour force itself . |
| 22 | The book was an abstract of a work which had not appeared , and which never did in the form envisaged ; this meant that it had no references or bibliography , and that in it Darwin wore his immense learning lightly . |
| 23 | Essentially , this meant that it had to operate like a company , with a capital structure and a requirement to deliver a return on capital employed , but with the ownership wholly in the hands of the British Government . |
| 24 | This meant that it was open to the Revenue to select one or more of the beneficiaries to tax and to pass over the others . |
| 25 | This meant that it was unable to cope with delays in contract payments , resulting in a cash-flow crisis . |
| 26 | The meaning that they gave it should send cold shivers down the spine of any parent : fully a half thought that it was an instruction to cross the road , and half of these thought that it was showing you how to do it — by running ! |
| 27 | But you see there was always this thought that it was always to better yourself that you were doing this that your Orcadian was just for home about and among yourselves and what it did n't really matter . |
| 28 | The British insisted that it be worked by British operators — reluctantly agreed to — and it finally entered Australia in the Northern Territories . |
| 29 | Another queried whether it was a proper subject for the meeting as William Black was not a resident of the area , but a week-end cottage tenant . |
| 30 | This continued until it was realized that the fairies objected to the site , and the church was then built on top of the hill , which satisfied the fairies . |