Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might mean that a firm was ‘ released ’ from ties to traditional , skilled ( and often well-unionized ) labour ; the technical change freed it to seek out cheaper and less well-organized labour elsewhere . |
| 2 | The basis of the control was that the courts have held that , when Parliament gives a public body statutory authority to act , it can be implied that Parliament intended it to act in a particular way ; in good faith , in a reasonable manner , in accordance with the requirements of natural justice . |
| 3 | The Iranian Foreign Ministry said it summoned representatives from Western capitals , where the incidents took place , yesterday to deliver a ‘ strongly-worded protest ’ . |
| 4 | The capacity of a body corporate with which the International Tin Council had been bestowed by the English Parliament allowed it to acquire and hold property , and to perform other actions in its own name . |
| 5 | But British Rail said it did not believe the maps were authentic . |
| 6 | In a separate development , British Aerospace confirmed it had raised its stake in Ferranti to 1.7 per cent through the purchase of 5.72 million shares . |
| 7 | Water from a nearby spring kept it filled . |
| 8 | The Bosnian Serb high command denied it had attacked the town . |
| 9 | English department did it last term . |
| 10 | Why when he had lavished so much care and time , not to mention a medium-sized fortune on this aeroplane did it let him down so utterly ? |
| 11 | From the way this lady spoke it seems to me like , like a that , that sort of er organisation , from the establishment . |
| 12 | Another director made it sound like a Faustian pact with the devil : ‘ You have to be careful not to lose your soul ’ , he whispered . |
| 13 | Scottish Enterprise said it had carried out an audit at Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd after the allegations were made in a series of unsigned documents passed to the press and the SE chairman , Prof Donald MacKay . |
| 14 | Gina 's Italian and French ancestry made it come more naturally . |
| 15 | The public analyst found it contained 14 beetles , 24 larvae and nine pupal cases , also that it had the characteristics of the Australian beetle , which attacks and infests dried food products . |
| 16 | Its skirt was so full that the slightest movement caused it to swirl and lift about her legs . |
| 17 | ‘ The German news said it had fallen , but we do n't believe that . ’ |
| 18 | What popular impact did it have ? |
| 19 | RECONNAISSANCE was of paramount importance in the Pacific War and the Yokosuka R2Y1 Keiun ( Beautiful Cloud ) would have been superb in this role had it entered service . |
| 20 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — The Colombian government said it had rejected an offer last year from drug traffickers to give up the drug trade in exchange for not being extradited to the US , and firmly ruled out any dialogue with the traffickers . |
| 21 | The darkening river made it sound hollow . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , the game was very close and as half time approached it took a piece of individual brilliance to put St Albans ahead . |
| 23 | Some joker had it nailed to the floor . |
| 24 | The Scottish Office said it knew of the inquiry but had not yet been officially approached by the CRE . |
| 25 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
| 26 | Clever lighting made it seem airy even though there was little light from the street . |
| 27 | And how much time did it take to make the coffin ? |
| 28 | The Australian group said it believed that Pearl , ‘ if left to itself , will continue the long-term downward trend in its market position and is unlikely to meet the challenges presented by the developments in the UK and European life insurance markets . ’ |
| 29 | The FTSE Index was 18 points up at 10pm but this was later halved before a later rally saw it close 12.1 points up at 2363.5 . |
| 30 | Officers of the Muslim-led Bosnian government said it had urged President Alija Izetbegovic to return home immediately from Geneva , where he met international mediators , to underline the gravity of the crisis in the enclave . |