Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Present owners British & Commonwealth announced that it hoped to raise an estimated £130 million by putting it up for sale . |
| 2 | Although it was relatively ineffective , the fact that it was considerably safer than mercury meant that it remained in the pharmacopoeia of many countries until the twentieth century . |
| 3 | ‘ The cases in which the principle has been applied are cases in which the nature , scope and purpose of the function vested in the repository made it unlikely that Parliament intended that it was to be exercised by the repository personally because administrative necessity indicated that it was impractical for him to act otherwise than through his officers or officers responsible to him . |
| 4 | The Department of Trade and Industry announced that it was setting up working groups to examine the scope for changing some of the most complex areas of company law . |
| 5 | Japan 's Ministry of International Trade and Industry announced that it will ban the capture of the turtles , and gradually reduce imports to zero " within a certain period of time " . |
| 6 | Separately yesterday , the Department of Trade and Industry announced that it was not referring the proposed acquisition by EFM Dragon Trust of Drayton Asia Trust . |
| 7 | D'Hazeville 's was described in The Saturday Review as ‘ tame and commonplace ’ , although the assessors and Burn thought that it had sufficient merits to be placed fourth on their War Department lists . |
| 8 | His eyes rested on her , mocking her , and Folly knew that it was now or never . |
| 9 | It looks as if sex evolved because it 's in the interest of genes to constantly be re-combined self interest not always in company with the same others may want to be er mixing themselves up , so they launch themselves in continually different combinations , and this presumably each gene what , what , what is happening is a constant filtering process all the time , by means of which natural selection is working on basically random changes in the final point I want to make and that 's |
| 10 | At that time the presence of these pupils was seen as a problem , one that would very probably get worse before ( and most people predicted ) natural processes of assimilation and dispersal meant that it got better . |
| 11 | If he decided to accede to the request — and precedent suggested that it would be very difficult for him to refuse it — then he would have a further 60 days to appoint a panel to decide upon a prosecutor . |
| 12 | The boy stood up and his expression of mixed defiance and desperation showed that it had cost him something to enter this house . |
| 13 | This practice was stopped after review indicated that it was not of diagnostic value in our hands . |
| 14 | The development work is n't thought to be linked to Sun in any formal way , but the news comes just a week after Sun revealed that it is playing with a 64-bit Sparc , and outlined its intent to define the ground rules for such environments through a new release of Sparc International 's interface specification for 64-bit Sparc architectures ( UX No 380 ) . |
| 15 | The error was spotted after work began and it cost £70,000 to raise the bridge . |
| 16 | ‘ My aunt in America sent us a photo of herself in a black dress after Grandad died and it was very plain . |