Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Because of this background , I expected a book called Feminism for Beginners to explain why all this happened when it did . |
| 3 | This declined until it was only 2,146 last year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By April the sense of crisis among the Six receded when it was agreed to quicken the pace towards a customs union still further . |
| 7 | A Netherlands DC-10 crashed as it tried to land during a storm at Faro , Portugal , on Dec. 21 , killing 54 people . |
| 8 | In their futile endeavour Joseph Chamberlain and his contemporaries were only re-enacting in modern dress the plot of the mideighteenth-century drama , by proceeding as if a common will and desire to be subordinate existed when it did not . |
| 9 | The infinitive 's meaning-capacity in its " bare " use is therefore no different from that observed when it is preceded by to . |
| 10 | When this act was debated , many doubted whether it would achieve its dual purpose of curbing presidents and giving teeth to the constitutional war power of Congress . |
| 11 | ‘ In a way it 's quite lucky it all happened when it did — but it 's a shame for other people who will be bringing cases forward in the near future . ’ |
| 12 | ALL 141 people aboard a Boeing 737 died when it crashed into a mountain in China 's worst air crash yesterday . |
| 13 | At the time , many questioned whether it is really possible to make a marriage work after such a short period . |
| 14 | ( In fact it is Grade II starred because it has been inhabited for more than 1,000 years . ) |
| 15 | The opening of the Scherzo sounds remarkably like the twittering of birds in the trees , something I first noticed when it was played to me on an 1820s Graaf piano similar to the one owned by Schubert . |
| 16 | Göring 's popularity in particular suffered as it became evident that , whatever successes German troops were having in distant parts , as head of the Luftwaffe , he was unable to guarantee the protection of the homeland . |
| 17 | It made the startled singer wan na Shout as loudly as her Sixties hit when it was plonked on her plate at a wedding feast by a mischievous magician . |