Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if we 've got the project quality plan right there should n't be any problems or queries and it did remind me of this Australian er project manager , who I 've mentioned to one or two other people over lunch , who used to sit in a great , a great office , running multimillion pounds ' project and when people came in to complain to him , he used to refer them to the plaque on the wall which said R T F C. |
| 2 | He was recalled to GC & CS when it moved to Bletchley in 1939 . |
| 3 | In the past it was invariably the leading Americans who seemed to have more grit or nerve when it came to the closing stretch . |
| 4 | A fourth idea implicit in the concept of non-justiciability is that of expertise : a court might decline to review a decision or action if it felt it lacked the skill , expertise or experience to judge the issues raised by the dispute . |
| 5 | The company was engaged in a delicate balancing act ; it could not afford first-rate machinery or transport until it had expanded , but it could not expand ( as a wholesaler at least ) until it improved quality through more sophisticated machinery . |
| 6 | In those days I was going , and was only intrigued to learn that it was Mespot or Iraq as it became . |
| 7 | A recent OECD study ( 2 ) shows that households also benefited from innovations such as the securitisation of mortgage debt — making mortgages tradeable between lenders , so that the institution which originally lent the money might sell its mortgage claim to another bank or thrift when it needed cash . |
| 8 | The sudden flood was more like a wave than rain and it blinded the window as surely as darkness . |
| 9 | The local authority was considering that request when it had to move the children and decided to place them with foster parents . |
| 10 | In September 1979 the Screamers , a female-dominated community living off the coast of Donegal , became aware of the nature of the prospecting going on in Donegal : IBM had claimed that month that it had encountered ‘ encouraging evidence of uranium ’ in Donegal . |
| 11 | The flamboyant impulsive talkative Celts of Ireland 's Iron Age may , in their enthusiasm , have put just a little too much emphasis on quantity rather than quality when it came to liquid refreshments . |
| 12 | The Housing ( Finance ) Act shifted the balance further in favour of house purchase rather than rental when it imposed ‘ fair ’ ( usually higher ) rents on most council tenants . |
| 13 | Certainly Russia has openly intervened with military force to control its satellites like Hungary and Czechoslovakia when it thought they were stepping out of line and also supported the introduction of martial law in Poland to curb industrial unrest . |
| 14 | Aberdeen 's latest figures are flattered by £201,000 of exceptional gains from the sale of Australian interests and investments as it cleared the decks for expansion in the UK which , it says , would cut overheads and increase liquidity . |
| 15 | It was a film made some years ago in black and white , but , despite the difficulty of watching it in a foreign language , the power of the drama gripped them both , Sarella because she was a professional and was impressed by the intensity of the acting , and Marc because it seemed to strike some deep chord within him . |
| 16 | Goebbels 's rhetoric that ‘ the German people has never looked up to its Führer so full of belief as in the days and hours that it became aware of the entire burden of this struggle for our life ’ , and that far from being discouraged ‘ it stood all the more firmly and unerringly behind his great aims ’ , sounded even emptier than usual . |
| 17 | The confusion over the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act 1935 did not help : there were uncertainties between the Ministries of Transport and Health , delay over necessary action and ineffectiveness once it had been taken . |
| 18 | For example , if money supply were £10 billion , and money as it passed from one person to another was spent on average eight times a year on national output , then total spending ( MV ) would be £80 billion a year . |
| 19 | That 's why we went on to Seattle and Phoenix and worked our way back east again through the south , through Texas , Florida and Tennessee and it ended up going more than twice its length because of the success of the show . |
| 20 | He had rheumatism and was known to be a bit quick ; tempered and impatient , but even Mother remarked how surprised she was at his skill and patience when it came to doctoring animals . |
| 21 | Three men held the yak 's head down with ropes , their weight pitted against the great muscles of its neck and shoulders as it threw its head about , crazy with the pain of the knife in its withers . |
| 22 | What Labour needs above all is the network of working-class activists , sympathisers and supporters that it had in workplaces and on housing estates even as recently as 20 years ago . |
| 23 | There was some difficulty over widening in Stafford Road , which was already partly built up with houses and shops where it passed through Wallington . |
| 24 | Tenderly he wiped its mouth and nostrils and eyes as it coughed into life , vomiting saline nutrient over his hands . |
| 25 | Not only did the WEA have providing rights and responsibilities in negotiations with the Board of Education and LEAs but it enhanced its position and status in seeking funds from philanthropic bodies to support pioneering , experimental schemes for the provision of adult education , particularly in rural areas . |
| 26 | Their task is to so translate the text that it speaks with the original intention and force as it did to those originally addressed . |
| 27 | With great speed , the CWA created jobs for over 4 million Americans , constructing new highways , airports and schools before it ended in April 1934 . |
| 28 | Now it would be a question of building up contacts again , putting up a case which would percolate up through the echelons of power , hopefully gathering momentum and authenticity as it did so . |
| 29 | The offences only came to light because of an attempt to inflate profits at Alexander Howden , which was discovered by the American company Alexander and Alexander after it bought the company . |
| 30 | Dorothea had told Florence Ames the story of Gaily in the church twice before , and neither of them was yet tired of it , Dorothea because it pleased her friend so to hear it , and Florence because it pleased her that the man had been somehow vindicated , turned out to be as good as she had thought , and a friend . |