Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things remained thus for nearly 80 years , and although it became generally recognised that the genus needed to be split-up into several smaller ones , the amount of work required was such as to make the task an almost-impossible proposition , at least for a single revision . |
| 2 | It became widely accepted that the attackers were predominantly black , although there was little evidence for this belief . |
| 3 | Gradually it became more institutionalised as something resembling organised diplomatic services emerged . |
| 4 | As the officer corps became more professionalized , it became more determined that the army should not be used again to quell civilian protest as in 1905–6 . |
| 5 | In an age of imperial expansion and active missionary endeavour , it became harder to believe that everywhere the heathen were damned for their ignorance . |
| 6 | Last season it became so inflamed that he had to pull out of the Carolls Irish Open at Portmarnock . |
| 7 | It is obvious that the government does n't know how to respond to the messes it has partly created and partly suffers from . |
| 8 | And it has repeatedly bragged that its fighters have been responsible for the mounting attacks on policemen , 226 of whom were killed last year . |
| 9 | It has also observed and made case studies of a ‘ typical day ’ in many of these classrooms . |
| 10 | It has also ensured that some of the proposals , particularly those concerned with improving access to health services , have been incorporated into the federal budget plans for 1992–3 and the five yearly hospital funding agreements between state and federal governments . |
| 11 | It has also warned that some customers could be faced with paying more if it lost its hold on the household market . |
| 12 | But it has also illustrated that our future world is not just difficult to predict in practice ; it is also theoretically impossible . |
| 13 | It has also to establish that there are no reasons against its acceptance which defeat the reasons for the authority . |
| 14 | It has also shown that they are only a part of the explanation of Africa 's problems ; a difficult agricultural base , the inequalities of the world trading system , the sometimes exploitative role of multinational companies have also had a major part to play . |
| 15 | It has also shown that 90 per cent of the costs of the Princeton centre and its free newsletter are paid by M and M Mars , a division of Mars Inc , makers of the Mars Bar and a host of other sweets . |
| 16 | It has also shown that these groups of people and institutions have been involved in widespread breaches of the law . |
| 17 | It has also shown that they are most effective in situations of crisis because of their ability to initiate and control social interactions . |
| 18 | It has also shown that treatment of children with cystic fibrosis has produced adults who are fit , active , and integrated for most of their lives . |
| 19 | It has also proposed that the abduction offences should become gender neutral . |
| 20 | Not only has this reduced the operating costs , but it has also meant that for the first time in its history the Central Wales Line has been able to support a Sunday service ; indeed in July 1987 , one Sunday saw fourteen train movements , what with BR 's own service train , the various Recreation Ramblers , sponsored by the Sports Council , and two excursion rail tours . |
| 21 | The advent of mass owner occupation has not only meant widespread property ownership for the first time , it has also meant that inheritance of house property has become increasingly common . |
| 22 | It has successfully developed and operated a port at Sheerness in Kent and drew on this experience in deciding to develop a commercial port in the easternmost portion of the old dockyard . |
| 23 | The whole festival is heavily dependent on sponsorship and for the last five years it has successfully attracted and maintained a number of business sponsors both locally and nationally . |
| 24 | This was made the payoff in the Sunday Correspondent 's interview with the PM , though it has since emerged that the sequence of the conversation was altered . |
| 25 | It has since emerged that several aircrew were reluctant to continue the slaughter . |
| 26 | When the little animal is disturbed it burrows furiously down into the ground until it has completely disappeared except for its horny rump . |
| 27 | It has clearly listened and understood . |
| 28 | The Commission 's record on attacking cartels and concerted practices is impressive , for it has vigorously pursued and successfully secured the termination of a substantial number and variety of concerted practices . |
| 29 | I suspect it has either seen or heard us , and this is confirmed by the fact that it just does n't appear again . |
| 30 | It was reported in yesterday 's press , however , that North Korea has now agreed to the principle of the nuclear-free Korean peninsula , although it has yet to confirm that it will open up its nuclear installations at Yongbyon and any underground sites to inspection . |