Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the harsh fact is that the UN was able to operate effectively in liberating Kuwait because it suited US national interests to undertake this task ; and America and its allies clearly preferred to operate with the Security Council 's approval . |
| 2 | ‘ The Michelangelo computer virus that received worldwide attention last year is expected to cause even fewer problems this Saturday than it did when it struck last year , a team of IBM researchers said ’ . |
| 3 | Polio had been almost eradicated in Brazil , but by 1986 the country had the highest incidence of polio in Latin America because it had to cut back spending on immunization . |
| 4 | Not only was it their first victory since early December but it moved them above their vanquished opponents at the foot of the table . |
| 5 | To ironic press cheers , copper Nigel squatted down to immobilise Bryan 's hired Astra after it collected a succession of parking tickets — and Bryan then had to call in an executive minicab to whisk two companions off to lunch . |
| 6 | Shortly after my return , the Governor was to make a tour of Central Burma and it seemed a great opportunity for me to gauge conditions outside Rangoon , so I was invited to accompany him . |
| 7 | The embalmed corpse of Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgaria 's Communist leader from 1946 until his death in 1949 , was removed on July 18 from the mausoleum in central Sofia where it had been on public display , and was cremated in a private ceremony . |
| 8 | In the wake of the 1848 revolutions St Petersburg appeared to have acquired a larger say in the affairs of central Europe than it had possessed for a generation . |
| 9 | Many aspects of the diplomatic organisation of western and central Europe as it existed by the beginning of the seventeenth century continued with little essential change down to the French Revolution and indeed beyond . |
| 10 | First the newlyweds had to flee their hired Rolls-Royce when it went up in flames . |
| 11 | A portrait of Elena Ceauşescu graced the Polytechnic 's building in Central London until it disappeared during the Christmas vacation at the end of 1989 . |
| 12 | As revealed exclusively in TODAY , yesterday , the £100 million contract was awarded to multinational Alcatel after it undercut British firm Westinghouse . |
| 13 | Party rivalry was so intense in England under the later Stuarts because it affected not just the political elite at the centre , but cut deep into society . |
| 14 | High Row , Darlington , on an overcast Monday and it seemed like the town 's electorate had decided to move lock , stock and barrel somewhere else . |
| 15 | Mr Mulloy says that Lady Jane Grey is now paying more attention to the three Rs than it did previously . |
| 16 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 17 | They took no notice of the black Mercedes as it slipped noiselessly out of the parking space behind them , the driver 's foot hovering over the accelerator . |
| 18 | BRITISH Airways yesterday became the latest casualty of Black Wednesday as it revealed the slumping pound had helped cause profits to crash 80 per cent in the third quarter . |
| 19 | Derek Cook went close with a looping shot on 70 minutes , then blasted over from eight yards a minute later ; those misses might have demoralised Coleraine but it had the opposite effect . |
| 20 | We need a kind of Marshall plan which will bring to those poor suffering countries aid such as was brought to continental Europe when it lay prostrate at the end of the second world war . |
| 21 | But it had fallen mostly into desuetude in mid-nineteenth-century Europe and it had certainly not been evident in France during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |
| 22 | The Association proved to be more resilient than the defunct N.D.D.S. although it led a precarious existence for a number of years before becoming established . |
| 23 | A MAN and two teenage girls lay dead for hours in their wrecked Land-Rover after it careered off a country lane in a gale . |
| 24 | It is true that the problem of the balance of power between social classes and organs represented a more vital problem in modern Europe than it had done in Polybius ' Rome . |
| 25 | I was DJing at the Hacienda last Wednesday and it closed at 2am : that was very weird . |
| 26 | It is based on the so-called ‘ main guidelines ’ adopted by the Soviet parliament last September after it had rejected the widely acclaimed Shatalin plan . |
| 27 | It was not , of course , merely the noisome aspect which needed to be dealt with ; Asiatic cholera made its appearance in 19th-century Europe because it found virtually Asiatic conditions in the open sewers and cesspits of the great cities . |