Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need for war , then , was fairly generally accepted , although it was widely recognized that it brought destruction and death . |
| 2 | Overall the unit worked very well but the initial feeling that it looked really smart slowly evaporated once it had sat on the desk for an hour or two . |
| 3 | Her father 's order book was better filled than it had been for years , her mother 's health seemed good , Eileen was happy in her work as a pools clerk , and Tony and Helen were happily planning their wedding . |
| 4 | The government responded to this pressure : the Bill differed in some respects from the White Paper , and the Bill itself was constantly amended as it went through Parliament . |
| 5 | When he changed from an acoustic to an electric guitar so overloaded that it made the windows of the little studios rattle , you could still sometimes hear his feet rapping on the boards and the irregular chord sequences and the trademark himmahimmahimm drifting through the air . |
| 6 | Jim and Jonathan had been away , picketing and pamphleteering in Reading , had simply been not available , and Jo 's squat had been suddenly repossessed and it did not occur to any of the women that the boys would mind . |
| 7 | Miss Hannah Hauxwell , dressed in men 's trousers and old jacket so torn that it looked as though savaging by wolf packs had once been part of her daily routine , looked at me mildly . |
| 8 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 9 | He expressed dismay at the fact that the State President had failed to respond to the list of demands — mostly aimed at curtailing township violence — that the ANC had said should be sufficiently met before it returned to the negotiating table [ see p. 38948 ] . |
| 10 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 11 | i.e. Theobald 's Road , leading from Southampton Row to Gray 's Inn Road , north of Holborn , east London , so named because it led to Theobalds in Hertfordshire where King James I had a hunting lodge in the early seventeenth century . |
| 12 | The next one was the Castle ford , so named because it lay directly under the castle rock , although almost two hundred feet below . |
| 13 | In re Polemis [ 1921 ] 3 KB 560 was wrongly decided because it had held that once liability was established , a person was responsible for the direct consequences of his acts even though these were not foreseeable . |
| 14 | Unfortunately an island working day needed to be swiftly curtailed once it grew hot . |
| 15 | The resolution also ordered " all States in which there are funds of the Government of Iraq " to transfer proceeds to a UN escrow fund , and undertook to return to Iraq all monies so raised if it agreed to sell oil under UN supervision [ see pp. 38942 ; 38788-89 ; 38838 ; 39026 ; 39115 ] . |
| 16 | On into the Room Without a Name they had passed and through to the room it communicated with , the Room of Astonishment , so called because it had a cupboard in it with a little staircase inside that wound its way up into the loft . |
| 17 | His polemical attitudes were somewhat softened when it seemed that he might have to act upon them , and he found it necessary to disavow the political and social activism which members of the Moot such as Karl Mannheim wished to pursue . |
| 18 | In the night its silence and its matt , pewter gleam were alike deceptive , suggesting languor and sleep , while she knew from her memories of day that it was rushing down its bed with a tigerish fury and force , so concentrated that it generated no ripples and no sibilance . |
| 19 | Wind was measured at 11.00 and 15.00 each day , but only counted if it kept up for an hour or more . |
| 20 | However , there has been a considerable improvement in that club 's cash flow and its level of indebtedness is better supported than it appeared to be at the time of last year 's review . |
| 21 | Waves of anger jolted through him and his face seemed suddenly magnified while it flattened like a jellyfish . |
| 22 | The Ethiopian Parliament was so exasperated that it passed a unanimous resolution in 1968 begging Emperor Hailé Sellassié not to visit Italy until the monument 's return . |
| 23 | There is an initial paradox here of some importance for the future : the monastic life which he found at Canterbury appeared to him so decayed that it needed a new beginning , yet he did not sweep it away and establish an up-to-date archiepiscopal church served by a community of secular clerks , on the pattern of Rouen or Lyons or most other cathedral churches in Europe . |
| 24 | The big boost came when the recombinant DNA programme in the States suddenly folded before it had ever really got going . |
| 25 | In the first instance decision of Harvey [ 1988 ] Crim.L.R. 241 , a confession of murder made by a psychopathically disordered woman was , it is submitted , rightly excluded when it became apparent that she might have been motivated by a childlike desire to protect her lover , whom she had over-heard confessing to the same offence . |
| 26 | The prosperity which all these minor towns reveal occasionally has a local explanation : Todi 's neighbour , Assisi , was greatly enhanced when it became the burial place of St Francis and a centre of pilgrimage . |
| 27 | Apart from Max Klinger 's superb etchings , the rest of his work has been much neglected since it fell out of fashion . |
| 28 | To uncouple , the tug drew away and the leg was so balanced that it dropped to earth by gravity : if this leg was , through any reason tight , and it failed to function , the trailer fell to the ground , and so cast its load . |
| 29 | Similarly , regarding incest , the Committee merely stated that it proposed no alteration in the definition of sexual intercourse for the purpose of this offence . |
| 30 | By the end of the nineteenth-century , the biological model of sexuality was so constructed that it had become perfectly coherent to argue that excessive sexual desire in a woman was pathological . |